On Sunday, an active-duty Air Force member set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest the war in Gaza. This has unlocked all of the worst of the Internet, namely people who have decided that apparently this member of the Air Force, a disturbed anarchist, was some sort of hero.
That has some bad implications for politics, for morality, and for virtue.
Aaron Bushnell was 25-years-old and a disturbed anarchist. How do we know that he was an anarchist?
Because he said so.
This should raise some serious questions about how we actually screen for the American military. The simple fact of the matter is that the standards for the American military have been dropping pretty radically. This guy was an IT specialist. He’d been in the military for several years — and he was an active anarchist.
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