Robert Jensen: There Are No Heroes In Illegal And Immoral Wars

There was a time when I respected the opinions and thoughtfulness of college professors – of course, after spending time with them during my own college experience (it can’t be called an education anymore because I learned more in high school than I did in college) and afterwards, I’ve come to the conclusion that most educators in this country are idiots.

Case in point; Robert Jensen is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas in Austin. Professor of journalism. One of his books is entitled “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity”. His most current work is an article in OpEdNews entitled “There Are No Heroes In Illegal And Immoral Wars“. In that article he tries to make the case that because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t legal war, there are no legitimate American heroes in those wars.

Of course, we all know that those wars are legal, but somehow Jensen ignores the fact that both were sanctioned by the United Nations. But, for the sake of argument, let’s say that Jensen is right when he tells us;

The legal case is straightforward: Neither invasion had the necessary approval of the United Nations Security Council, and neither was a response to an imminent attack. In both cases, U.S. officials pretended to engage in diplomacy but demanded war. Under international law and the U.S. Constitution (Article 6 is clear that “all Treaties made,” such as the UN Charter, are “the supreme Law of the Land”), both invasions were illegal.

is that really what Article IV of the Constitution says? Let’s look at the whole paragraph, shall we?

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

What the paragraph says is that the Constitution, the Public Laws AND treaties are the Supreme law of the land and JUDGES are bound by the Constitution, P.L.s and treaties. It certainly doesn’t say that treaties are the supreme law of the land all by themselves as Jensen would have us believe. Of course, he wrote that knowing the average lazy intellectuals of the Left wouldn’t bother to read the whole paragraph.

By the way, Jensen, both the Afghanistan government and Iraq government had already attacked the US. The Taliban harbored al Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan. Countless missiles had been fired at US aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones over Iraq in enforcing UN mandates, an assassination attempt on former-president George HW Bush and no less than three times the Iraqi government rolled out it’s troops to the Kuwait border to rattle sabers in a threat of a replay of the Kuwait invasion – each resulting in an expensive redeployment of US troops to the region.

Just because this idiot professor makes up shit to prove his point, it’s certainly not necessary for him tell the American troops they aren’t heroes. What would this doofus in Austin, among countless other doofuses, by the way, know about heroes and the real world? Ensconced in his cramped college office, writing books about how he lost his masculinity watching porn. A journalism professor who can’t read the Constitution properly and quotes selectively from that sage document (stealing the argument, by the way from a communist lawyer by the name of Marjorie Cohn).

Of course, the anti-war far Left is reproducing this specious anti-scholarly work across the internet as proof of something. That’s the danger of giving out degrees and teaching jobs to imbeciles.

Category: Antiwar crowd