For Cliff May, War Pays By Daniel McAdams!
(2019-08-09 at 00:16:04 )

For Cliff May, War Pays By Daniel McAdams

To say that Clifford May, founder of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, loves war would be an understatement.

He loves almost everything about war and he thinks the United States should be in a lot more of them. He thinks that the United States should never go home, should never withdraw troops, should forever be searching for "bad guys" to fight, lest they come find us and fight us here. Because the rest of the world is exclusively focused on how to invade and destroy the United States.

He likes to invoke Sun Tzu and Clausewitz and Plato to make his case for endless wars. Neocons love to do that because it makes them sound erudite and grounded in history - when in fact they are neither.

About the only thing Clifford May does not love about war is fighting it himself.

While others of Mr. Mays generation were being blown to bits in that lost cause called "Vietnam," Mr. May was drinking brewskis at Sarah Lawrence College and then Columbia University. His experience of war consists of covering it as a pampered correspondent of the shining lights of the mainstream United States media like Newsweek and the New York Times.

Not only does Mr. May disdain the idea of soiling his dainty hands with the real blood and guts of war, he actually disdains those unlucky young Americans who find themselves churned up in the endless killing machine called "United States empire."

In a recent Washington Times editorial, tellingly titled, "Why endless wars can not be ended," Mr. May argues that members of the United States military should be constantly in battle. Not a moments rest from the killing and being killed. After all..

..the men and women volunteering to serve in the United States of Americas armed forces are not doing so in order to hang around the house drinking brewskies.

Mr. Mays is a rare look into the utter contempt the neoconservatives feel for members of the United States military.

Veteran suicides are an epidemic in the United States and are in fact the second leading cause of death in the United States military. Veterans make up 18 percent of all United States suicides while representing only 8.5 percent of the population.

Why are veterans killing themselves at a rate of 20 per day?

A recent study found that the risk of military suicide rises with rapidly repeating deployments - just the kind of constant warfare that Cliff May calls for in his Washington Times article this week.

After all, what the hell else would these kids be doing if they were not driving themselves to suicide from endless wars..hanging around the house drinking brewskis?" Right, Cliff?

In the Washington Times piece this week, Mr. May argues passionately against President Trumps stated goal of removing United States troops from their positions occupying parts of Syria.

United States troops in Syria are, in his telling, "both preventing a revival of the Islamic State, and helping contain the Islamic Republic of Iran."

This above sentence is key to understanding Mr. Mays constant push for more United States involvement in the Middle East.

Hint: It is not really about America.

Mr. Mays Foundation for the Defense of Democracies is lavishly funded by single-issue billionaires who believe they are helping Israel by sending United States troops to the Middle East to constantly provoke and kill those they believe are Israels enemies.

Thus far it has not brought peace any closer to either Israel or its rivals in the region.

In fact the opposite.

But the money keeps flowing so Mr. May keeps blowing.

And United States of American troops (along with millions of innocents in the target countries) keep on dying.

Just as the neocons like it.

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Daniel McAdams is the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

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