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even a stopped clock...
see if he'll extend it to the rest of em.
the jcos is Americas military leadership at the highest level.
who do you think is responsible for ordering and overseeing the last century of imperial violence and bloodshed?
That explains why it stops whenever a good president is in office.
Do you genuinely think all the generals are free of blame? Perhaps that all the orders came fully formed from the forehead of the chief executive and they were just following them?
I’m not clear on the point you’re trying to make.
Are you trying to suggest that the joint chiefs are just blown hither and thither by tragically flawed intelligence and tempted to sin by donations from the corporate arm of the military industrial complex or that presidents before 2001 aren’t responsible for the actions of the us military?
Congress hasnt declared war since 1942.
To boil down the relationship between the joint chiefs and the chief executive down to “they follow his orders” is more than a little naive. It’s not a good resource but even Wikipedia has a more nuanced take than that.
Are you trying to say that it’s not the joint chiefs who are responsible for American crimes, but congress?
It certainly is culpable, but I’m surprised to find someone who would say a body of civilian government officials bear more responsibility for war crimes than the military leaders who directly oversee them.
But I’m with you. Congress should be put to death too.
The joint chiefs operate in an advisory role to the executive and are outside the chain of command.
But let’s assume for a second that what you say is true:
If the highest military leaders in the country were following the orders of one person, and those orders came directly from them, would they somehow be innocent of the wholesale slaughter they perpetrated because they were following orders?
Good to know we agree that the jcos and congress should be summarily executed.