Too many “anti-war” activists seem to have been taken in by Trump’s mutterings that he doesn’t like war. They should know better. This is the commander in chief who ordered use of the largest bomb ever dropped — the 21,000 pound “mother of all bombs” — on Afghanistan in 2017. This is the monster who “joked” and also seriously asked his advisors why he couldn’t “nuke” North Korea. Enough said on that history.
Understand, by speaking to the hideous outcome of this election, which holds danger for the entire globe and humanity, we won’t stop condemning and opposing the Democratic Party’s criminal funding and political support of Israel’s genocidal war on the people of Gaza and Lebanon. This is ethnic cleansing, and we are told by Israel’s own leaders that they plan to annex Gaza, against all international law, with blatant, overt, cruel destruction of human life.
Trump’s proposed nomination of Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host who fought for the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan (above wearing a shirt that says “A Pledge a Day Keeps the COMMIES away”) says much about how Trump will pursue U.S. domination of the world:
- Hegseth was one of the loudest voices against the military’s criminal charges of Navy Seal Edward Gallagher for murdering an Afghan civilian and against Army officers charged with war crimes whose own subordinates spoke for the prosecution. Trump went on to remove any charges, tweeting: “We train our boys to be killing machines, then prosecute them when they kill! @PeteHegseth.”
- Hegseth condemns “diversity and inclusion” in the military, says women should not be involved in combat and that the military’s recruitment is not meeting quotas because its ads feature “diverse” service members.
- He strongly sided with Trump and the white supremacists on Charlottesville in 2017.
- Of great interest to this audience, he was an officer in the National Guard at the U.S. torture camp in Guantanamo in 2004-05 when we know the most egregious open torture was done to men detained there. After a “media” visit there in 2016, he called for the “expansion” of Guantanamo in 2016, echoing Trump’s expressed wishes.