recent segment<\/a> on the CIA\u2019s celebration of Gay Pride Month. Am I supposed to trust the CIA when they wrap themselves in a rainbow flag?<\/p>\nRegardless of who\u2019s been president and which party he\u2019s been from, U.S. military spending has continued to soar. And while Joe Biden finally ended the disastrous Afghan War, the military-industrial-congressional complex is profiting wildly from the new Cold War with China and Russia.<\/p>\n
Americans should be deeply concerned with the increasing likelihood of nuclear war, together with the government\u2019s great affection for building even more nuclear weapons. Yet we are actively discouraged by our government from thinking about the unthinkable, i.e. genocidal nuclear weapons and war. \u201cTrust the experts\u201d is the implicit message, along with \u201cpay no attention\u201d to the trillions being spent on new nuclear bombers, ICBMs, and submarines. After all, they\u2019re job-creators!<\/p>\n
Reelecting Trump or Biden, or electing younger tools like Ron DeSantis or Pete Buttigieg, isn\u2019t going to change America\u2019s imperial, militaristic, and rapacious foreign policy. I\u2019d like to elect a president who prefers not to drop bombs, a leader who knows that bombs remain bombs whether they\u2019re \u201cwoke\u201d or \u201cMAGA\u201d or decorated with rainbow or \u201cblue lives matter\u201d flags.<\/p>\n
Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This image stays with me: The people on the receiving end of American bombs don\u2019t care if those bombs are from a \u201cwoke\u201d B-52 or a MAGA one, or whether the crews of those planes are diverse. Is it better to be bombed by female or gay or Black air crews? The comedian Jimmy Dore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-42859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"Woke Bombs Are No Better than MAGA Ones"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42874,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions\/42874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42859"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=42859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>The people on the receiving end of American bombs don\u2019t care if those bombs are from a \u201cwoke\u201d B-52 or a MAGA one, or whether the crews of those planes are diverse. Is it better to be bombed by female or gay or Black air crews?<\/p>\n