The war whores over at CNN have been beside themselves over the arrival of the newly-commissioned assault ship USS New York in New York harbor today.
USS New York is a Big Deal because its bow is built of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center. While CNN’s bubble-headed uniform groupie Robin Meade was breathlessly rhapsodizing over the ship’s arrival (Was it good for you, too?) I couldn’t help but reflect on the legalized theft and crony capitalism that the ship glorifies. There also is the historic significance–unintended, I’m sure–of the latest tool of imperial force projection making its debut on the anniversary of the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem.
I wonder if the people whose property was stolen under the guise of eminent domain, for the benefit of the Rockefeller brothers and their cronies, would be as enthusiastic as Ms. Meade for the latest incarnation of that theft. I wonder if those who have been on the receiving end of unwarranted US government aggression will see that ship’s bow as a symbol of “what’s good about America?”
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