This is just the beginning (of the end (of days))

***The US governments seems so bent on "winning" this war against terrorism that it's willing to train its own executioners. File this one under: WTFAWD? (what-the-f**k-are-we-doing)***

Due to recruiting pressures, two wars, and growing anti-war sentiment, the military has been turning a blind eye and accepting white supremacists and other lovely racists into its ranks. Don't be surprised. The military isn't. They've known about the growing numbers of extremists in the service since at least 2006.

They join not because they want to wage war abroad (though that is -- I'm sure -- an added bonus). Rather, they join to prepare for the upcoming war at home. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization that tracks hate groups here in the US, cites a former Special Ops officer and neo-Nazi, Steven Barry, who explains why white supremacists need to join the Army:

"Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's war," he wrote. "It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and 'cleansed.' "

"As a professional soldier, my goal is to fill the ranks of the United States Army with skinheads. As street brawlers, you will be useless in the coming race war. As trained infantrymen, you will join the ranks of the Aryan warrior brotherhood."

Members of extremist hate groups (as if there could be another type of hate group) place a high value on military service, and those who have a military background often rise to positions of power and share their training with others in the group. They're going to be all that they can be and then some.

Remember Timothy McVeigh? His military experience came in handy, didn't it? Why don't we ask the victims of and the families of the 168 people killed in the Oklahoma City bombing how useful his training was.

And now we have new crazies climbing the ranks. For example, take Marine Lance Cpl. Kody Brittingham, who was recently arrested on unrelated charges when a search dredged up a journal containing white-supremacist material and a plot to kill President Obama. And there are a litany of others, many of whom the SPLC warned the military about. There was Forrest Mackley Fogarty, stationed in Iraq through the Army National Guard; Matt Buschbacher, a Navy SEAL; and Shawn Stuart, who served two tours of duty in Iraq to mention a few. The SPLC reports that "None of them were ever disciplined for neo-Nazi activities. All were honorably discharged."

One wonders how enlisting men like this, training them, arming them, and then shipping them into Iraq or Afghanistan is going to help win the hearts and minds of the people. A man identifying himself as Jacob Berg told an investigative reporter:

"Us racists are actually getting into the military a lot now because if we don't every one who already is [in the military] will take pity on killing sand niggers. Yes I have killed women, yes I have killed children and yes I have killed older people. But the biggest reason I'm so proud of my kills is because by killing a brown many white people will live to see a new dawn."

Crap like this makes my blood run cold. It's enough to make women sterile and to curdle milk in the teat. You know what, Jacob, I'll pass on your new dawn.

With the crazy Christian Zionists and Dominionists nipping at one heel, AIPAC at another, and white supremacists creeping up from behind, one wonders where front line for the war against terror really is or where it really should be.
::shudder::