Christian Butchers and Uniformed Assassins
July 13, 2013
That is not the title of my next article about the military, that is part of Mark Twain’s comments on the Moro Massacre in 1906 in the Philippines when the U.S. military slaughtered 600 mostly unarmed villagers—men, women, and children. Yes, yes, I know, they were just following orders and defending our freedoms.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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