{"id":2654,"date":"2020-01-07T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2020-01-07T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:57:50","slug":"righteous-might","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/01\/07\/righteous-might\/","title":{"rendered":"Righteous Might"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Colonel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Colonel Larry Wilkerson has \u201cstreet cred\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;He flew combat helicopters in the Vietnam War, graduated from both the Ranger and Airborne Schools of the US Army, and earned degrees in international relations, national security, and English literature.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was on General Colin Powell\u2019s staff in the military, and then followed Powell into civilian life as his Chief of Staff at the State Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilkerson is outspoken about how Powell was \u201cused\u201d by the Bush Administration to justify the invasion of Iraq.&nbsp;&nbsp;Powell\u2019s speech to the United Nations about Iraqi nuclear weapons development was critical in the lead-up to the invasion.&nbsp;&nbsp;That speech was based on information \u201ccherry picked\u201d from intelligence by the Bush Administration, led by Vice President Cheney, information turned out to be false.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilkerson understands force, understands the military, and understands intelligence.&nbsp;&nbsp;Last night on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Z5NkYKA4co\">MSNBC<\/a>, he called the intelligence leading to the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201c\u2026a bunch of bull.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;He added, \u201cWe have surrendered the strategic initiative to Iran\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interview, Wilkerson added an anecdote from the Obama administration. He said that Obama told him in a White House meeting in the Roosevelt Room, that,&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201c\u2026there\u2019s a bias in this town toward war\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biggest on the Block<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s easy to see how Washington would have that bias.\u00a0\u00a0The US has the largest military in world history.\u00a0\u00a0We spend huge amounts of money to maintain it, last year budgeting almost $700 billion.\u00a0\u00a0We have more of everything, from ships to planes to tanks.\u00a0\u00a0And while there are larger armies in the world by number of soldiers, the US has more of everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course, we have nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So military solutions are often \u201cthe easy\u201d ones.&nbsp;&nbsp;When there\u2019s a world crisis that lends itself to blowing something up, we have the best means to do it.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are like the biggest and strongest kid on the block.&nbsp;&nbsp;When other kids annoy us, or 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born on the wrong day, then eighteen years later you were on the way to Vietnam.&nbsp;&nbsp;Have a \u201cgood number\u201d and you got to stay home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the end of Vietnam, the United States military moved to an \u201call volunteer\u201d force.&nbsp;&nbsp;And while those soldiers are incredibly effective and loyal, when we stopped the draft it somehow became \u201ceasier\u201d to send troops into danger.&nbsp;&nbsp;After all, they volunteered, they chose this.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was less of a national burden to send troops to Kosovo and Bosnia and Iraq.&nbsp;&nbsp;And even the \u201crighteous\u201d war in Afghanistan against the forces that attacked us in 9-11 has dragged on.&nbsp;&nbsp;Al Qaeda is defeated and bin Laden dead, but we continue to battle, for so long that the soldiers fighting today might not even have been born when planes struck the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Easy Solution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So it\u2019s easier to send our forces to fight in far away fields.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s even easier when those forces can be piloted remotely, from a base in Virginia, as the bombs fall in Baghdad.&nbsp;&nbsp;No one mourns the loss of a drone, even if it costs millions.&nbsp;&nbsp;We proved that when the Iranians shot down one of ours a few months ago, and our response was a cyber attack.&nbsp;&nbsp;The choice to use military force becomes less \u201crighteous\u201d when it\u2019s done with an upscale video game controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the use of military force becomes easier to do, it is incumbent upon the decision makers to chose more deliberately and carefully.&nbsp;&nbsp;And that\u2019s where we stand today.&nbsp;&nbsp;Do we believe that the President and his small coterie of militant advisors made a \u201crighteous\u201d choice in trying to provoke war with Iran?&nbsp;&nbsp;There is no question that Soleimani was a \u201cbad actor\u201d, a purveyor of terrorist acts throughout the Middle East.&nbsp;&nbsp;But there is \u201cno new news here,\u201d he\u2019s been that same \u201cbad actor\u201d for the past twenty years and more.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that the neo-cons, some of the same folks that led us into Iraq eighteen years ago, are happy to lead us into Iran.&nbsp;&nbsp;They decry the \u201crighteousness\u201d of their cause, trying to paper over the divisions of America with a patriotic war.&nbsp;&nbsp;Pompeo, Esper, and good old John Bolton have got what they want from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they gave up control when we killed Soleimani.\u00a0\u00a0As Colonel Wilkerson said, it\u2019s not our call, \u201c\u2026we have surrendered the initiative\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Now it\u2019s up to Iran.\u00a0\u00a0Their response will determine what we will do, whether it will be war or peace or that tenuous balance point we\u2019ve maintained in between.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s hard to be righteous, when it\u2019s not your 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