The disappearing post office is running a series of tv ads on how important its highly paid unionized workers are to the future of the solar system. The most recent one tells us that 25% of postmen are veterans, and that to support the troops and the ex-troops, we should give vast new subsidies to the post office. Of course, all government employees are worth more than tax victims (twice as much, if you go by pay and benefits). But current and former armed government employees hung the moon. We are  to hosanna them on all occasions, especially tomorrow. Now, many veterans are victims. They were drafted, or fooled, or lured by bad times into killing foreign peoples for the military-merchant of death complex. They do not know the people they kill, or the countries in which they kill them. They simply kill and destroy on orders. Now, I oppose all wars for moral, political, and economic reasons. But let me be a moderate, for once, and say that no killing in war is anything but murder unless the war is just, and justly fought. That means, at a minimum, that the war must be defensive, a last resort, and not target civilians. No US war has ever met those minimal rules. So, while I think the murdered and their families deserve most of our sympathy, we can also sympathize with victimized veterans. But hail them as heroes, the best and brightest, and all the rest of the war propaganda? No.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.