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K          “Bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, bomb, maim, kill, weaken, damage, destroy, undermine, overthrow, eviscerate, . . . .”

J          “Some untidiness in the international arena is to be expected.  The world is not a pretty place.  An adult informed me as a kid that I should not pay any attention to what the United States does internationally to protect our security.  However, the comment was not entirely reassuring even then.   The world is not a pretty place.”

. . .

K          “For seventy-eight years – for more than my entire life – the U.S. has been at war with the world.  In 1945, the U.S. was in a position to be at peace with the world.  Just read between the interstitial lines of every work from [Thomas] Bailey to [Norman] Graebner and edit the propaganda.  The U.S. has not been pursuing a Global War on Terror, the U.S. initiated and continues to pursue a Global War of Terror on the globe.  The great shining opportunity of the mid-century was squandered and squashed.”

. . .

K          “Many years ago, Senator Frank Church took the country to church over its criminal activities abroad, yet whatever reforms he may have intended have been entirely subterfuged and undermined by the criminals.”

J          “I could agree to some inquiry, yet what goes on in and by other countries is as criminal.”

. . .

K          “The resentments are simmering.  The blowback will be mind blowing.”

. . .

K          “It did not need to be this way.  It did not need to be this way.  It did not need to be this way.”

. . .

[See “The Rise of China (and the Fall of the U.S.?)” by Alfred McCoy in “TomDispatch.com” posted on April 27, 2023 and “The EU brought to its knees by the Straussians” by Thierry Meyssan in “Voltaire.net” dated September 13, 2022.]

[See the e-commentary at Joint Base State-War (JBS-W) (April 25, 2022) and The Flag (May 31, 2010) and many other e-commentaries.]

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