They Were Expendable

JL Strickland, former Alabama mill worker and self-proclaimed "Linthead Emeritus," on a boy and a town: two more casualties of the deeply anti-American American Empire: www.ComeHomeAmerica.us.

JL Strickland, former Alabama mill worker and self-proclaimed “Linthead Emeritus,” on a boy and a town: two more casualties of the deeply anti-American American Empire: www.ComeHomeAmerica.us.

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Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman is the author of eleven books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (Henry Holt), Ain’t My America (Metropolitan), Look Homeward, America (ISI), and Poetry Night at the Ballpark (FPR Books). His next book, Upstaters, is due from SUNY Press in 2026. He is a columnist for The American Conservative and The Spectator World. Bill wrote the screenplay for the 2013 feature film Copperhead. He is a founding editor of Front Porch Republic and has served as a legislative assistant to Senator Pat Moynihan, editor for various magazines and publishers, and vice president of the Batavia Muckdogs, a professional baseball team that was euthanized by Major League Baseball. He lives with his wife Lucine in his native Genesee County, New York.

6 comments

  • Thaddeus

    Wonderful, wonderful article.

  • D.W. Sabin

    Strickland…..nor have I but the boneheads running the joint seem to be itching to extend their little debt mainlining caliphate of American War from the Hindu Kush and Levant into the Maghreb.

    Pardon my continuously confusing employment of sarcastic irony. Well, perhaps we can dispense with the word irony and simply pardon my continuous confusion.

  • JL Strickland

    Brother Sabin —

    Where do you get that “we” shit?

    Some of us haven’t bought into this insanity for a second.

  • D.W. Sabin

    Silly isolationists, raising impertinent questions about the deaths of American youngsters someplace 8 time zones distant. But then, at least these young men and woman die while on the point of a spear of sacrifice. The rest of us simply watch as this grand experiment blunders further into an extended drunk. KMA? An interesting trick while we are all busily engaged in kissing the ass of empire.

  • American hegomony, which Bush’s war is just some variation thereof, is a rather older than Bush II, just as that war with Clinton’s sanctions being part of it, is older than Bush.

    The sin of that war runs far wider and far deeper that Bush II.

    That doesn’t in the least excuse Bush II, but that boy didn’t die because of George Bush, he died because of the American populace that has voted in one man after another who done just what George Bush did. The only difference is that vice used to in the past pay homage to virtue, whereas now, hypocrisy is not even bothered with.

  • A

    KMAP it is. I’m in.

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