The US military were once proud men who fought with the Founding Father’s courage, determination and goals. The individual soldier still tries his or her best to do so today, but now the military-industrial complex (US Chamber of Commerce a/k/a Corporate America) has taken over and senior officers, like the members of Congress, are now just an extension of the long arm of lobbyists.

Since the Korean War, the American military has been used as corporate rent-a-cops. The consequence of this is showing up in the won/loss column, and it can be seen on many of our soldiers’ faces and heard in their voices. They’re like zombies, disinterested without liability or high merit. If ordered, or left to believe that torturing people is acceptable, they will do it calmly as if they had done nothing at all (Abu-Ghraib). After their military tours are over, there is a hopeless lack of resourcefulness in them which makes them some of the least determined people I’ve ever met. The Veteran Affairs hospitals and homeless shelters are overflowing with these once proud Americans.

When I arrived in Vietnam in 1968, the very last things on earth that a person needed in order to think clearly and calmly were in abundance. Cases of candy, soft drinks, and cigarettes were stacked from floor to ceiling. Then there were the bags of unmentionable stuff without labels. All of these things, void of one iota of concern, were provided free of charge by the corporate butt boys in our nation’s capital. We were delivered into the hands of our enemies for them to do as they pleased with us; and should we survive, we would return home to fight yet another war, a war of hostility, bureaucracy and self-loathing.

Watching the Iraq War and the soldiers returning is nothing but a rerun of the Vietnam War for me. To believe the Arabs in the Middle East are our friends is to believe Feisal adored Jemal. Every Arab in Iraq who is not trying to kill Americans is being paid by the Pentagon and the CIA not to kill them. It’s not the surge of soldiers; it’s the surge of U.S. dollars that has reduced American casualties. Every American in the Middle East has a price on his or her head. Stop paying the price, and off will come the heads.

"This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations." -Rutherford B. Hayes

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