The annual adulation and misguided worship the MICC gets during the Super Bowl

Unlike most Americans, this decorated military veteran is not planning on watching the grandest of all weapons of mass distractions in the arsenal of the status quo. Unlike the masses who will be wasting their time watching mindless commercials and a sport that is four hours long and has only 12 minutes of action, this military veteran would rather spend that time watching paint dry. Even though I am interested in learning how the military industrial congressional complex will get its annual adulation and misguided worship, this military veteran will instead spend the time reading a book. It is too bad that most Americans are easily manipulated by over priced military hardware, emotional displays of nationalism, and misplaced perceptions of the true meaning of being patriotic .

Because the Super Bowl being is being hosted in a doomed stadium and the weather may be too cold for the retractable roof to be pulled back, the traditional fly over of over priced politically engineered fighter jets at the beginning of the game will have to be substituted from some other event inside the doom.

While conventional wisdom dictates a more appropriate minute of silence for the 120,000 soldiers still serving in Afghanistan, some of them on their second, third, and even fourth tours of duty, the status quo elites and organizers of the Super Bowl would never allow such a long awkward moment of silence. In addition to the long minute of silence in a world of instant messaging and Facebook updates, a long minute of silence increases the chances of some drunken fool yelling something in the stands during the moment of silence.

Perhaps the organizers will honor the military by displaying the names of the 1,395 soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the start of President Bush’s decision to bring democracy to a country through military force. With recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, we all know very well now why this military veteran and political scientist never supported an American Foreign Policy trying to bring democracy through military means.

While reading or displaying the names of the 1.395 soldiers killed in the on going and endless war would be too difficult and time consuming for the corporate sponsors of the Super Bowl, perhaps the organizers will at the least display the names and faces of the approximate 480 soldiers who have been killed in Afghanistan since the last Super Bowl. Surely a stadium built with generous tax breaks and other public money could display the names of the men and women killed in Afghanistan on the world’s largest high definition video screen. Lockheed Martin one of the largest and most corrupt military industrial congressional complex corporate bedfellows is located not far from Dallas, would be an ideal corporate sponsor for honoring the soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The more public support given to perpetual war with the use of over priced and over budgeted military items like the Lockheed Martin produced Joint Strike Fighter, guarantees continued profits for war mongering corporations like Lock Heed Martin, Boeing, and dozens of other corporations in America.

Sadly though, the corporate sponsors and media outlet hosting the grandest of all weapons of mass distraction events will downplay the sacrifice suffered by the men and women serving in Afghanistan and mark the moment as quick as possible. Undoubtedly immediately after any tribute to the military the organizers will break to a commercial so Americans will continue to equate their level of democracy and freedom in America through a quantitative perspective and not a qualitative perspective.