When “might makes right” becomes the unacknowledged, but vey obvious rationale of the bully, it is up to intellectuals, academics, journalists, AND the morality police, I.e., the cash-happy preachers to speak truth to power. Most of the voices speaking the truth have been coopted, silenced or marginalized. But not all of them!

I recently posted a link to what I think is an important book review by a conservative, Bruce Fein, who deconstructed a flowery, self-elevating call-to-arms by a neoliberal, staunch cheerleader for the U.S. empire.

“The gist of Kagan’s intellectually stimulating and imaginative argument goes something like this: Americans are endowed with a disproportionate percentage of angelic, altruistic DNA compared with non-chosen others. Uniquely among nations, the United States wishes to make other people happier, freer, and wealthier by fighting against corruption and tyranny abroad.”

Kagan is a godfather of the neoliberal regiment that includes Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken. Kagan writes the words that become the bases for policies that authorize politicians to implement those words through global acts of aggression and terror. Here’s a link to the full commentary by Fein: https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/10/the-calamity-of-americas-divine-mission/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=32b91ed8-54a5-4708-809c-f23fb608c353