The State’s Willing Executioners
January 5, 2016
In Saudi Arabia. The Saudi supreme leader, king, prince, or whatever the ruling thug wants to be called didn’t decapitate or shoot 47 prisoners last week. The Saudi state’s willing executioners did. Reminds me to say that Presidents Bush and Obama never killed a single Iraqi or Afghan. The American state’s willing executioners did. None of their victims deserved to die. And no U.S. soldier had any business traveling thousands of miles away from American soil to kill them—regardless of whether he was ordered to by the commander in chief.
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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