{"id":375142,"date":"2018-08-28T01:54:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T00:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-hero-or-war-criminal\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T01:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T00:54:19","slug":"war-hero-or-war-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-hero-or-war-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"War Hero or War Criminal?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John McCain has left the planet, amid contrails of encomia exalting him as an \u201cAmerican\u201d hero, even from the likes of Bernie Sanders<\/a> and Alexandra Ocasia-Cortez<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the channel
But if you go Tweeting pictures of John McCain
We\u2019re all going to know that, baby, you\u2019re just the same<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here is a piece that Cockburn and I wrote in 1999 about a psychiatric evaluation of McCain underwent while a prisoner of war\u00a0in North Vietnam. The psych0logical portrait drawn by Spanish psychiatrist Fernando Barral is that of a deeply narcissistic personality, cold, hardened and largely devoid of human empathy, a man who seemed to view the bombing of civilian populations as a kind of\u00a0sport. These aggressive\u00a0personality traits have also characterized his nasty political career. \u2013JSC<\/em><\/p>\n

The top war-monger in Congress has been Senator John McCain, Republican from Arizona, seeker of the Republican presidential nomination. In one rhetorical bombing run after another, McCain has bellowed for \u201clights out in Belgrade\u201d and for NATO to \u201ccream\u201d the Serbs. At the start of May he began declaiming in the US senate for the NATO forces to use \u201cany means necessary\u201d to destroy Serbia.<\/p>\n

McCain is often called a \u201cwar hero\u201d, a title adorning an unlovely resume starting with a father who was an admiral and graduation fifth from the bottom at the US Naval Academy, where he earned the nickname…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo Source AFGE | CC BY 2.0 John McCain has left the planet, amid contrails of encomia exalting him as an \u201cAmerican\u201d hero, even from the likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasia-Cortez. You say you want a revolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the channelBut if you go Tweeting pictures of John McCainWe\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}