More on the indifference of nations...

Continuing my previous post, Democracy Now! has an interview with Nadia McCaffrey - the mother of Spc. Patrick McCaffrey - who is accusing the Pentagon of a deliberate cover-up.

After being accidentally killed by Iraqi forces, she was told that National Guardsmen Spc. Patrick McCaffrey and 1st Lt. Andre Tyson were killed in an ambush despite the fact that the military knew the truth. In fact, Nadia was tipped off by friends of McCaffrey who had been with him in Iraq.

This has happened before with Patrick Tillman, the NFL star who had given up his fame and fortune to go fight the good war for the U.S after 9/11. He too died from friendly fire, but the world was told a different story, of stirring heroism, the "he went down fighting for his country" bit. It was especially ironic that the military did not honor his noble sacrifice and commitment by treating his case with integrity. Instead, the true story of how he had died went up all the way up the chain of military brass and was squashed for political gain.

The fight is never a "good fight" when it is undertaken by a nation state especially one that is provided scant supervision by both Congress and a preoccupied public.