Source: Common Dreams
by Joseph Gerson
“It wasn’t until the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention that pandering to military power took the stage. Until then, conventioneers were insulated from possible second thoughts they might have had about the party’s role in the constructing, maintaining, and expanding of what is in truth an Empire. The run up to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’[s] acceptance speech included tough talk from former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who celebrated America’s ‘warriors,’ and by a parade of members of Congress who have served in the military …. With the exception of celebrating the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, there were no references to those wars, nor to the president’s role as ‘nuclear monarch’ with the sole authority to launch an omnicidal nuclear war.” (08/31/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/kamala-harris-foreign-policy