Robert C. Koehler: National defense and dead children
A new defense budget looms. Maybe we’re running out of wars to fight, but no matter. The proposed figure before Congress is bigger than ever: $778 billion.
How fascinating — and how irrelevant — that the vote is scheduled just a few days after the New York Times published its investigation of a U.S. airstrike in Baghuz, Syria two and a half years ago, which the Defense Department had been desperately trying to cover up.
America, America . . . shall we celebrate our country, boys and girls? Here’s a passage from the story: “Civilian observers who came to
