#25: So Proud to Kill
Even the official United States Department of Defense Twitter isn’t immune from being out of touch with its citizens and the rest of the world. Warships have names to differentiate them over comms in the thick of a battle, but the naming of this particular gunship is pure arrogance and indifference to human life.
We talked about America’s lavish defense expenditure before, but this person nails the issue on the head. What’s the point of having something that can defend your citizens if your citizens are dying from preventable diseases on the homefront? We wouldn’t know, but the soldiers sitting in that aircraft studying the instruments and pushing buttons might.