Israeli war is simply barbaric

From our wonderful La Conner Swinomish Library I checked out “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Not a happy read, but edifying. Chapter four, “Bloody Footprints,” begins with a quote from historian John Grenier’s “The First Way of War.”

“For the first 200 years of our military heritage, then, Americans depended on arts of war that contemporary professional soldiers supposedly abhorred: razing and destroying enemy villages and fields; killing enemy women and children; raiding settlements for captives; intimidating and brutalizing enemy noncombatants; and assassinating enemy leaders”.

For those of you who have been following Israeli actions in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, these words might ring a bell.

If not now, when will we learn?

And, sheesh! John Cline is an example of “the poor winner.” Ha! I wonder if Trump’s appalling appointments have shaken his zeal. Probably not. Elect someone who acts a clown, expect a circus and the stands full.

Jai Boreen

La Conner