The coming Duluth Air Show could as well be called the Red Square Military Parade.
These air shows around the country are like traveling carnivals, rousing, rip-roaring, fun-for-the-whole-family ways for the military and the American empire to display its prowess -- just as the jack-boot goose-steppers in Red Square or down a Berlin main street in the 1940s.
We are supposed to all come, enjoy the show and have a good time as we see just how our billions of dollars are being spent.
And we are supposed to then go back home in cars that don't quite work, to jobs that don't quite pay enough, to health care that is not quite there, to schools not nearly enough and to lives that could be so much better -- all because of the billions of dollars we are forced to spend on military toys so that not-quite-grown-up girls and boys can have their fun with our lives and the lives of everyone around the world.
So here's to the military and to the empire and to terror on a stick and to the knowledge that the results of the upcoming election will only ensure more and more of the same.
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Mike Palecek
Saginaw
