Parody As a Weapon Part CVIII; For some, 79 years are a lifetime, but today, it’s a whole new world.
In our last segment, in Part CVII, there was a testament to the developing response to Hamas atrocities in Israel earlier this month. This week, we will step outside the familiar bounds of song parody once againas we look at the media coverage of Israel’s current declared war against Hamas.
There was a time when the United States would declare war on our enemies. The American people would know who our adversaries were, and should anyone try to adhere to the other’s cause or provide aid and comfort, they would be participating in treason. The American press considered themselves American, and didn’t root for the other side.
With the passage of the National Security Act of 1947, a Department of Defense was created to manage the US armed response to international conflict. The US went from achieving with its allies the unconditional surrender of those who attacked and declared war against us in 1945 to fighting to a draw in the Korean peninsula against North Korea and its Chinese Communist allies in 1953. What followed in the next two decades was worse, as a significant segment of the press, academia and Hollywood began to adhere to our adversaries. While the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 served to refresh the American spirit in the last quarter of the 20th century, the victorious conflicts in Grenada and the Persian Gulf were of a short duration, and accompanied by a disastrous bungle in Lebanon. While the Berlin Wall was torn down and Eastern Europe was liberated from the yoke of Soviet oppression, this victory was achieved not through battle and at the expense of thousands of lives, but through the sacrifice of billions of dollars and decades of time.
Meanwhile, as the 21st century commenced, the communist tyrants who dominated the old Soviet Union were replaced by kleptocratic despots as their socialist cousins fortified their positions throughout Europe and dominated the institutions in the US that they once merely influenced. As such, it should not be surprising that in the conflicts for which Congress has authorized the use of military force in the 21st century, the left has found common cause with many of those who urge the destruction of the West generally, and the US specifically.
This is illustrated in much of the coverage of Israel’s preparation to invade Gaza in response to the murderous atrocities inflicted by their governing terror group Hamas during their own invasion earlier in October. In light of this, it might be interesting to explore how today’s mainstream press would cover a pending invasion by the US and its allies eight decades ago.
(Reuters June 6. 1944 Dateline Normandie, France ) All eyes are on the cloud-shrouded coast of Normandy this date, as the US and its allies prepare to invade the peaceful sovereign nation to the east of their heavily-armed fortress on Great Britain. Along the Atlantic Wall, fortifications are full of clusters of men in a variety of uniforms. Prussian artillerymen gaze out to sea through their field glasses as Polish and Lithuanian conscripts with shovels dig trenches and fill sand bags. Elite fit warriors in black strut behind the defenses as representatives of the “Schutz Staffel” or “SS”, with the silver lightning bolts on their collar tabs. This Praetorian Guard owes it allegiance to the charismatic and controversial leader of Germany, Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, who has dispatched all of these fighting men to help protect the coastline of his erstwhile adversary from an incursion from its centuries-old rival across the Channel, along with the armies of its former North American colonies. Assisted by expatriate insurgent former French soldiers who refuse to acknowledge their country’s peace agreement brokered by Marshal Petain four years ago; British, Canadian and US forces give every indication that they intend to expand the aggression that they have inflicted on Germany and those aligned with it in North Africa and Italy.
The Allied effort is being led by US General Dwight David Eisenhower, who is reported to have political aspirations following his military career, which has been characterized by the absence of combat assignments and involvement with the violent repression of veteran Bonus Marchers in Washington, D.C. during the prior presidential administration. While Eisenhower has been unwilling to confirm Allied plans to land in Normandy, seasoned observers have commented on the shoddy attempts to draw attention away from there and toward Calais as all the proof necessary to conclude the attack will occur in the birthplace of William the Conqueror, where in the 14th century the English executed French heroine Joan of Arc.
There are unconfirmed reports Eisenhower has gone so far as to order the desecration of a corpse by dressing it in an English officer’s uniform and tossing it into the Mediterranean Sea with false plans for a Calais landing where Germans would likely find it. Additional efforts to deceive involve creating fake armored vehicles and infrastructure for an imaginary army led by the disgraced US General George Patton, who was recently facing legal troubles for physically abusing a traumatized veteran undergoing a mental health crisis at an Army hospital in Italy.
Critics of the US and its allies point out that while Germany might have declared war on the United States in December of 1941, it certainly has done little to harm American interests or invade US territory in the three and a half years that followed, largely limiting its hostile actions to the interdiction of ships carrying war materials to Great Britain. It was this long term violation of neutrality that helped inform the decision for Germany and those in its axis to issue a declaration of hostilities, as America and it merchants of death continued to supply ammunition and other weapons of destruction to the British, who remain the last significant holdout in a territorial dispute wherein Germany is trying to establish a new European order, while at the same time is attempting to resolve a conflict over borders with its former Soviet ally in the east. The bellicose British leader Churchill has stubbornly refused to negotiate a ceasefire to hostile activities, and has managed to persuade the US and normally pacifist Canadians into interfering on his behalf.
Back in the US on American campuses, student groups previously affiliated with the German-American Bund prior to its persecution and destruction speak amongst themselves of calling for an end to reverse colonialism and demanding that the US leave Europe to the Europeans. One underground group of German-American youths enrolled at Columbia University Law School in New York City have considered traveling up the Hudson River in boats just off West Point to chant “Off the beaches, Back to Sea; Stay away from Normandy!” in the direction of the US Military Academy. They were discouraged from doing so when their otherwise sympathetic professors pointed out the US Supreme Court ruling in Ex Parte Quirin 317 1 (1942) might allow for their trial and execution by military commission under such circumstances.
Meanwhile, the US continues to pursue aggression in other parts of the world, as earlier this week, America’s newest long range bomber, the B29 Superfortress, was used to bomb railways in Bangkok, Thailand, despite there being no formal state of war ever declared between the two countries. The US and its allies also invaded parts of New Guinea over the last several weeks, and are rumored to be planning an invasion of Saipan in the Marshall Islands, where garrisons of Japanese troops reside with their families, awaiting the horrors of an enemy without honor arriving to ravage their homes and people.
The US and Japan have experienced tense relations ever since America insisted on retaliation following the defensive maneuvers by the Japanese at the advance naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Further complicating a return to peace was the US assassination of Japan’s special envoy Admiral Yamamoto as he flew about on a Pacific fact-finding mission.
Meanwhile, back in Normandie, German gun crews have moved their heavy artillery out of sea-facing bunkers at Pont du Hoc, in the hopes that the Allies will see this as a sign of de-escalation. German officers such as Erwin Rommel has indicated that he feels there could be common ground with the US and its allies, if only they would lay down their arms, stop fighting and agree to a cease fire.
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