Troubled White Troops on Ghetto Streets

The U.S. military's plans to assign 20,000 federal troops to cope with terrorist attacks, domestic disasters and civil unrest, would inevitably expose Americans to the habits of savagery U.S. soldiers have acquired in Iraq and Afghanistan. The "civil unrest" mission is the most dangerous aspect of the plan; in the United States, quashing civil unrest is practically a euphemism for suppressing Black and other non-white populations. Above and beyond legal questions over the authority of federal troops within the borders of the United States, the U.S. military is totally unsuited to the mission - especially troops that have served in combat units in America's two Asian wars. Yet these are the very soldiers that will be assigned to keep Black folks under control. Read more...