In a glowing and laudatory report on college students who join the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at nearby schools while enrolled at prestigious universities from whence ROTC was banned in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the New York Times has eased the way for colleges such as Harvard to ditch their ROTC ban and become in practice, not just in theory, fully supportive of the US government's militarized foreign policy. --- Venerating Corporate America as the Mediatrix of all Political Graces is the official religion of US foreign policy. Only megalomaniacal narcissism explains the psychopathology of the ruling class who not only send armies abroad to acquire other peoples' natural wealth, but also believe this to be an act of charity that only they can provide. Proposing that a people own their own resources is an intolerable effrontery, as the case of Mohammed Mossedegh proves. Prime Minister of Iran until 1953, Mossedegh attempted to nationalize the Iranian oil industry which had been under the control of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, now known as British Petroleum (BP), a transgression for which he was overthrown during the successful execution of Operation Ajax, the CIA's orchestrated coup. The "freedom" for which American armies fight is the freedom to work for Corporate America and its Washington tools. Additionally, this is a job that you can't quit without facing serious punishments…. -- The JFK School of Government and Harvard Business School are, respectively, the American empire's Schools of War and Capitalism. It's sad but fitting that ROTC might officially return to campus since the university actively supports the imperial project outlined by the military's own academics. It's also sad to see some of the most privileged and capable young people in America sign up for the undertaking. Can we honestly tell ourselves that people at a place with the intellectual reputation of Harvard's have been fooled into thinking that "serving one's country" meant something else? Can people at a place like Harvard claim ignorance about America's wars being an enterprise for corporate profits? Most of the world's peoples belong to the have-nots and we, the haves, make unending war on them to keep it that way. - Didn't you know that, soldier? --