TRAVON MARTIN

Mr. Obama "could have been Travon Martin"--or so he says, as an afterthought, his first response having been that justice had been served in the Zimmerman case.

May I have an afterthought of my own,  please?  I could have been one of the perfectly innocent men, women, or children killed by one of Mr. Obama's drones.  After the fact of these heinous murders, Mr. Obama and his stooges always label anyone killed as "al Qaida."    Of course. Just as all the people killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were enemy combatants.  Just like that little eight-year old girl burning with napalm in Vietnam was an enemy combatant--photographed by a professional American voyeur.

What perversity.  What arrogance.  What an insult to our intelligence.  The US only kills "enemy combatants," not innocent men, women, and children.  Mr. Obama's drones are politically smart:  they sort out the militants from the innocent people hiding from U.S. violence.  Once people are dead, they are automatically "enemy combatants."

But maybe we aren't intelligent.  Maybe American history--from the Native American genocide to our war against Fidel Castro's Cuba to Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan to the murder of Trevon Martin--and the way we understand that history are simply the shameless, disgusting proof of our self-serving stupidity.

Maybe Obama's disgusting second-thought duplicity about the murder of Travon Martin is what we want as well as what we deserve.

But let me be fair to Mr. Obama.  He probably doesn't have second thoughts about the innocent people his drones kill.  He is the president, and he can kill anybody.

Why can't we be civilised?