For my entire adult life I have heard D.C. politicians condemn anyone who goes to a foreign country and criticizes the president of the United States. Say whatever you want here, they say, but never, ever, air our dirty political laundry in front of foreigners. The criticism stops “at waters edge.” It’s borderline traitorous, they say. This is especially true of the neoconman warmongering class. I received hundreds of emails from “conservative” busybodies during the Bush and Obama regimes excoriating me for my “disrespect of the presidency” every time I criticized either politician on this Web site for their reckless military interventionism, attempts to destroy the American economy with socialism, and worse.
The country music band The Dixie Chicks was literally ruined after one of the “chicks” announced at a 2003 concert in England, “We don’t want this war,” referring to the American invasion of Iraq that was about to occur. They went from the biggest concert draw in country music to obscurity in a few weeks time, and disbanded altogethter a few years later after being boycotted by the country music radio industry.
This is yet another fascist institution that Donald Trump has apparently abolished — without his even knowing about it. I refer to the fact that in today’s news are articles about how John McCain attended one of those neocon Let’s-Invade-the-World “security” conferences in Munich, Germany at which he mercilessly trashed the American president. It’s apparently OK for a U.S. senator to bad mouth and excoriate the U.S. president in front of foreign audiences for pursuing peace with Russia, but it is NOT OK for anyone, let alone a senator, to object to American warmongering and wars of conquest and occupation in front of foreign audiences.
I wonder how many of those freerepublic.com and National Review war-worshipping chickenhawks will criticise McCain for trashing the American president in front of several hundred foreigners in Germany.
2:34 pm on February 19, 2017
