The gall of these Republican SOB’s! Typical Republican war-fanatics, of the sort the party is filled with, and its ideology built upon, war-fanaticism. Just like in the post-WW II origin of the Conservative ideology that would come to dominate it, with war-fanatic Barry Goldwater inciting that fanaticism each step of the way and National Review founders Kendall, Burnham, and Buckley, et al., working to create a culture built upon war fanaticism. Don’t have time to show by analysis how each of these might merit their own trial, but Zinke comes to mind with all the corruption he was associated with as a typical Trump administration official:
Here’s an article from before the complete corruption of The American Conservative into a Trump media platform, as boasted was their intent to become by their Claremont Institute alum (and they succeeded): "While initially hailed at the White House as a good thing, an avalanche of criticism came from Capitol Hill (the deal hadn’t been cleared with members of Congress first, they complained), and from media such as Fox News and right-wing radio jocks who suddenly had access (with the help of Republican operatives) to members of the Bergdahl search party and unit, all of whom were calling him a deserter and traitor. … the political hue to the Bergdahl hate is difficult to ignore. . . . "In the second-to-last paragraph of the e-mail, Bowe wrote about his broader disgust with America’s approach to the war – an effort, on the ground, that seemed to represent the exact opposite of the kind of concerted campaign to win the “hearts and minds” of average Afghans envisioned by counterinsurgency strategists. “I am sorry for everything here,” Bowe told his parents. “These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live.” He then referred to what his parents believe may have been a formative, possibly traumatic event: seeing an Afghan child run over by an MRAP. “We don’t even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armored trucks… We make fun of them in front of their faces, and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them.”
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