I may have missed it but I don't think I did because I know
I looked for it everyday and saw it nowhere.
The soldiers whose dead buddies are celebrated continuously
by the Neocon controlled media for the ultimate sacrifice they made to defend
others, were about to be stiffed because they stayed alive. Luckily, something
happened at the last minute that put a temporary restraint on the ongoing
madness.
It happened to the wounded veterans that had a hard time
getting the care they needed and deserved from the Veterans Administration
(VA), and it happened to the soldiers who were offered a financial incentive to
re-enlist, but were later informed of a clerical error that forces them to
return the money they don't have anymore, having spent it a long time ago.
At a time that the veterans are so desperate they commit
suicide by the thousands every year, you would think that a publication such as
the Weekly Standard, which updates its website on a daily basis, would have
said something about the matter. But not once, as far as I know, did this
happen. Eventually, President Obama's Secretary of Defense Ash Carter directed
the Pentagon to halt the process of trying to collect from the soldiers.
Meanwhile, during all the time that the VA story and the
alleged clerical error were unfolding, the Weekly Standard did not see fit to
appoint someone to go on that beat and crack it open. The publication could
have helped the wounded veterans get the attention they needed to stay alive
before dying and getting praised. Instead of doing its job, the Standard
appointed Jenna Lifhits to roam the Congress and sniff for anything she can use
to serve Israel , always Israel and no one but Israel .
Whether she tripped on a big piece of news or a small one,
Lifhits was trained to frame what she finds in such a way as to make it sound
like the American Congress was doing something hugely important for Israel . The
upshot of her writing has always been that a game-changer was introduced in the
Middle East, and the ultimate outcome will be a more glorious future for Israel .
She relies on a handful of characters to help her inflate
the non-stories of the Congress into blockbuster-size bombshells. Among the
characters helping her are Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mark
Kirk and Tom Cotton who would sell their own mothers to a Jewish whorehouse,
and then turn around and give the money to the Jewish settlers whose profession
is to kill Christian and Muslim civilians in occupied Palestine, and rob them
of their possessions.
Jenna Lifhits's latest effort in that beat came under the
title: “Lawmakers Urge Opposition to Another U.N. Measure Denying Jewish,
Christian Links to Jerusalem ,”
published on October 24, 2016 in the Weekly Standard. To her and to the editors
of the publication, something happened overseas that's more important than the
plight of America 's
wounded veterans who continue to live the horror of war and will for the rest
of their lives. What happened that's so horrible, says Lifhits, is that a document
was written at UNESCO mentioning a historic site in Jerusalem by its Muslim name and not its
Jewish name.
This prompted the normally hibernating Congress to jump to
its feet, she says and do something about it. The move was led by the same Ted
Cruz who fires off op-ed pieces to various publications promoting the causes of
Israel , always Israel and no one but Israel ,
but never anything on behalf of America 's
wounded soldiers. Lifhits says that Cruz teamed up with Ros-Lehtinen and other
lawmakers, and sent a letter to UNESCO telling the folks down there what the
Congress thinks of them.
As well, Ted Cruz chided the Commander-in-Chief, Barack
Obama, for not dropping everything he was doing on behalf of the veterans … to
“seize this opportunity” instead, and do something good for Israel . The
mentally challenged lawmaker says he is confounded by Obama's attitude.
As it happened, this was not the only story that unfolded
this week on that front. A face-off between the notoriously backward Mark Kirk,
and amputee veteran Tammy Duckworth who is vying for his senatorial seat – saw
him quip a racially charged remark that earned him widespread contempt.
This was not a slip of the tongue; it is indicative of the
mentality behind those who view America 's
military personnel not as human beings, but toy soldiers employed in the
service of the Empire that the Neocons are trying to establish.