Four US soldiers die in Niger and no one dares to ask “why”!

By សតិវ អតុ

Here it is—Sunday morning watching "Face the Nation." And they have an Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford to explain what happened to the four US soldiers killed in Niger. So what does an Oklahoma Republican Senator really know about the African country of Niger? Who cares? He is a conservative supporter of US military presences in the third world. He is conservative and a strong supporter of US imperialism.

Actually it is hard to find a senator of any kind that doesn’t support our military adventures. In the US imperialism is the policy and finding anyone to oppose that on US mainstream TV is nearly impossible.

When it comes to foreign policy, all the reporters, politicians and pundits all march in step together. All they do is sit around and explain why no one should ever dare to disagree with our actions in such places as Niger. The only debate is on how to be effective imperialist warriors. Why are we there? As a Lankford explained the Nigerian Army needs guidance and training. They have al Qaeda and ISIS affiliated groups there. Then they could grow and attack Europe. It is the Domino Theory all over again. Have we learned nothing from Vietnam? This country is addicted to war. This guy Lankford even defended the US staying in Afghanistan.[1]

I'm sick of living in a country that is dominated by imperialism. Even worse is that there are no opponents able to get on TV and dispute all of this garbage. It is like living in a dictatorship where we only hear the government's view. All others are mysteriously silent. I know there are no prisons with opponents of our wars inside and yet those opponents have been successfully kept out of our media. It is censorship without all the police and jails. We don’t have official censorship—we have effective censorship.
I am sick and tired of seeing all this crap about our military heroes. Four soldiers are killed in Africa and the only question of any importance is over the President Donald Trump’s phone calls to the families. How can this country justify its soldiers being in some one else's country—someone else’s’ sovereign homeland? Such interference in another sovereign nation can’t be legal and yet there we are. All our military men are "heroes" and no one dare call them out for the human rights abuses that are taking place around the world by our heroic troops.

This must be what it is like to live in a country like North Korea where you only hear the government’s side. We know there are countries where no opponent is allowed to voice their opinion. Such opinions can land a person in prison. And yet we have the same effectively censored news. That is the only news we can get in the US.

All a blog can do is to print the truth. And that is what I will continue to do.

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[1] See The Resistance against Imperialist War in
Afghanistan must continue and grow