Read/Watch the Scariest Speech from Both the RNC and DNC: John Allen's Unrestrained War-Mongering

Source: reason.com - Sunday, July 31, 2016
If the emotional highlight of both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions was Khizr Khan's remembrance of his son's death fighting for the United States in Iraq , the scariest speech of the last couple of weeks also involved military topics. In Philadelphia, the former Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS, retired Gen. John Allen, delivered a bombastic lecture in which he endorsed Hillary Clinton on the grounds that she alone was capable of opposing tyranny and evil via military interventions around the world. "With Hillary Clinton as our commander-in-chief," he shouted in language that doubtless warmed the hearts of interventionists of both major parties, "the United States will continue to be that indispensable, transformational power in the world." Not only that, but the Pentagon would be able to relax, knowing that the military-industrial complex would never have to pinch pennies: "Our armed forces will be stronger. They will have the finest weapons, the greatest equipment." Amazingly, such balls-out hawkishness, delivered loudly at the highest-decibel level possible, garnered relatively little in the way of commentary or protest except in the Wells Fargo Arena itself. Anti-war activists started chants of "No More Wars," but were quickly muffled by other attendees—and Allen himself from the podium—counter-chanting "USA! USA! USA!" (fearing pro-Bernie Sanders protests, the DNC had actu

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