by Stephen Karganovic, Strategic Culture:
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, goes the adage of the ancient Romans that every schoolboy knows. Regrettably, in the case of the recently departed Senator Lindsey Graham finding laudatory words is a nearly impossible task. George Galloway was on point in calling Graham “a perfectly revolting specimen, and a poor excuse for a human being.” Galloway also ventured some very cogent speculations about the circumstances and causes of Graham’s truly unexpected and otherwise not easily explicable death.
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Decent people will not pop champagne bottles at the news that the annoying political caricature that we had all become accustomed to watch on television screens is no longer here to keep our blood pressure high. But neither will they issue any hypocritical statements of regret. Lindsay Graham was not a patriot, as in their insincere eulogies some of those hypocrites are now shamelessly claiming. He was a national embarrassment to America, and in the midst of intense competition he in fact stood out as such, as a towering figure in that pathetic bunch.
Lindsay Graham leaves behind the legacy of an inveterate, bloodthirsty warmonger. The appropriate expression – jingoist – has unfortunately gone out of fashion but it describes Graham’s mindset perfectly. He thirsted for conflict and war the way normal people thirst for peace. And he did not see a war anywhere that he did not like.
His debut in the jingoist camp was in 2003 when he expressed strong support for the war on Iraq to “disarm” it and confiscate its non-existent weapons of mass destruction. More recently he became a vocal supporter of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime and lobbied insistently for it to be supplied with unlimited quantities of weapons and money to conduct its operations. In 2023 whilst visiting V. Zelensky, a “statesman” of matching calibre, he made the ghoulish statement that funds expended on the corrupt Kiev regime are the best possible investment because it would ultimately lead to the seizure by Ukraine’s senior partners of vast natural resources and, as an extra dividend, facilitate the “killing of tonnes of Russians.” The public expression of such sick sentiments by a high-ranking government figure provoked nary a criticism in the political chambers or media outlets of the civilised collective West.
Lindsey Graham never personally killed anybody, as far as is known. But to earn the status of a mass murderer he did not have to. In Iraq, Ukraine, and Iran he advocated acts of inhuman retribution and destruction clearly targeting the civilian population. His incitement resulted in large-scale slaughters that others were encouraged or made to engage in and commit on his behalf.
The sheer lunacy of his foreign policy ideas was on display in May of 2024 when without batting an eye Graham urged the nuclear bombing of Gaza. What made him imagine that the fallout could be confined to the territory of the 12-mile-wide strip without harming his friends in the region, he did not bother to disclose. One supposes that just the thrill of nuclear apocalypse was enough for him.
He pointedly compared the conflict in the Middle East with the war in the Pacific which in 1945 resulted in the nuclear obliteration (one of the choice expressions in this Air Force JAG corps [legal department] colonel’s vocabulary) of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which in Graham’s opinion should by no means remain one-off events. “Just flatten it,” was Graham’s solution to the conflict in Gaza, presumably to clear the ground for the luxury resort that is planned there. “We flattened Berlin, we flattened Tokyo,” Graham further elaborated his foreign policy rationale.
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