Sweet Land of Liberty

Sweet land of liberty. These were the words sung to our elementary school class as the US flag went up the pole, snapping in the morning breeze. Maybe it was Memorial Day, or Flag Day. It doesn't matter. I remember thinking that my country must be an amazing place if grownups choke up about it. I was proud to be part of a country that even sang these words.

So many years later, my basic beliefs in these words and the country that still sings them, are gone. The US is the mightiest nation the world has ever seen.  We are starving two million people in Palestine. We are bombing Iran. We are kidnapping world leaders, or assassinating them along with their families. We threaten the rest of the world with endless wars, and our implacable war machine is on the move, looking for more victims.

Is there anything sweet about US militarism? Is there any liberty after the US and its reprehensible ally in crime, Israel, have murdered millions of people? Those stars and stripes don't bring me any assurance. The reasons for our perpetual invasions of other countries have turned out to be transparent lies. Were they always? Was there ever a time when our country was a sweet land of liberty, free from Zionist manipulation and its million dollar payoffs to members of Congress?

I don't think that the US and Israel can conquer the rest of the world. Their heinous crimes against humanity will be our epitaph.