A Few Good Men

It is reassuring to believe that there are still a few good men in the American military establishment. There is comfort in the hope that there are senior American military commanders who are willing to sacrifice their careers rather than send good soldiers into slaughter to satisfy the egos of a handful of insane politicans.

The Sunday Times reported yesterday that several top US generals stand ready to resign if they are ordered by Bush to attack Iran. That hope is tempered by the knowledge that the US Air Force is jonesing for the order to bomb Iran. The branch of the armed forces that is turning its service academy into a fundamentalist Christian cult thinks war is just like their video games.

One group of horsemen gave me the impression of a budding rose unfolding as the bomb fell in their midst and blew up. It was exceptionally good fun. ~ Vittorio Mussolini after flying a bombing mission in the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935.