That Neocon war-hawks Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol, Alberto Gonzalez and some 200 other Republicans endorsed Kamala Harris should not be cause for joy among Democrats. It illustrates the fact both parties are wholly captured by the Neocons who support the Wolfowitz Doctrine of hegemonic, uni-polar empire and forever wars. Dick Cheney was a principal architect of both the Iraq War and a worldwide torture regime. Gonzalez signed the infamous torture memos and called the Geneva Conventions “quaint.” Many Democrats opposed the 2003 Iraq War, which Cheney, Kristol, and others lied the U.S. into. Barack Obama’s opposition to the Iraq war was a major reason for his success in 2008.

Unfortunately, Obama then gave us NATO wars in Libya and Syria, and in 2014 Joe Biden was “pointman” for our coup in Ukraine that precipitated the Ukraine war. Lying by our government about the Ukraine war, about China, Iran, and other “adversaries” is routine and uncontested in the mainstream press. Those with the courage to contest government claims about Ukraine or the Gaza genocide are subject to government harassment and intimidation, glaring infringements of the First Amendment, as recently experienced by Tulsi Gabbard, Judge Andrew Napolitano, and Scott Ritter. It is fair to say that whichever candidate wins in November, the real winner will be the uni-party of forever wars and nuclear brinkmanship, while the American people, and indeed all humanity, are further impoverished and endangered by the merchants of death.

Bruce Currie

Concord