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Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville North Carolina: A Maoist Review


A billboard advertises a museum in the memory of veterans since World War II. The claim is that without these veterans the united $tates might be under German rule.


The museum itself is located near Fort Bragg. Outdoors at the museum are stone monuments to various military units living and dead.

"The War on Terror"


Fragments from the World Trade Center destroyed on September 11th, 2001 are the opening exhibit of a new section of the museum for the "War on Terror," which mushes together U.$. wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.


Here is about the only picture we agree with in this museum wing. Indeed it is "all-Amerikan" to go to a Third World country and pile up skulls to be proud of. Before there was a united $tates, settlers were massacring indigenous peoples, so there could hardly be anything more "all-Amerikan."


While bringing pornography and prostitution to Iraq and Afghanistan, u.$. troops gain pseudo-feminist plaudits for opposing the Islamic burka, which the museum calls a "method of control and suppression" of Afghan wimmin. Inflaming nationalist sentiments and genuine feminist response to pornography and prostitution, Uncle $am only reinforces the burka with a vengeance.


A military propaganda organ called the "Liberator" serves double duty--abroad and in North Carolina. There are no words from Third World people in the exhibit, not even u.$. puppet words. It's 100% u.$. military propaganda. "The Airborne & Special Operations Museum is part of the U.S. Army Museum System and functions in partnership with a non-profit foundation," which means that taxes go to the government which then propagandizes the people. "Both public and private funding has been vital to the opening of the $22.5 million museum. Fundraising began in 1992 with a generous grant awarded from Congress." The Amerikan people pay taxes to propagandize themselves with the government's militarist point of view--a vicious cycle of public opinion and war.


President George W. Bush wrote in March 2004 to congratulate the museum for its "War on Terror" wing.

The World War II exhibit is the least objectionable. Even there, the exhibits often fudge for words and go so far as to use so many euphemisms it is difficult to tell whether soldiers died in a particular depicted conflict or not.

The above is from the Korean War (1950-3).

As the Cold War went on, the u.$. imperialists decided to have the gall to claim they were liberating the Third World--and this in the same museum justifying colonial occupation of Iraq.

The 82nd Airborne had its biggest assignment since World War II in the Dominican Republic in 1965. The exhibit omits that the united $tates was overthrowing the elected president of the Dominican Republic and calls resistance to u.$. puppets a "coup" attempt. Through this occupation, Uncle $am twisted the arms of the Dominican Republic to vote for a candidate deemed even more pro-Amerikan than the milquetoast reformer they were calling a secret "communist."

Today, John Kerry has said that one of his three major "defense" initiatives as president will be to recruit more special operations/psy-ops personnel. He's talking about the kind of things seen in this museum.