By Christopher Overfelt
The United States military has signaled its intent to dramatically escalate its genocide in the Middle East, deploying more than 100 war planes from US bases to sites in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, including six B-2 bombers sent from Whiteman AFB to the Diego Garcia airbase in the Indian Ocean. Logistical supplies, munitions, troops, and aerial refueling tankers have been deployed along with the warplanes.
These warplanes are currently carrying out massacres in Yemen, where more than 300 airstrikes have taken place in a little over two weeks. These airstrikes include the deliberate destruction of an oncology treatment hospital and the destruction of a water source that cut off the water supply of more than 50,000 people.
The US genocide will soon expand from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen into Iraq and Iran, as the US State Department has relayed its intent to both governments that strikes are imminent. To support this dramatic surge in genocide, the US manufacturing base has increased production of lethal munitions here in the United States. Dallas, TX, finds itself at the heart of American genocide as two plants owned by General Dynamics there produce the Mark 80 bomb series and the 155mm artillery shell, two of the primary munitions used to commit mass slaughter by the American Empire in Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen. From Dallas, these munitions are then shipped to Army bases in McCallister, OK, and Middletown, IA, where they are filled with explosives and then delivered to their final destinations overseas.
As a community, we are all complicit in this genocide. We all contribute to the US war machine that causes so much death in order to enrich the few. This genocidal death march is just at its beginning, as those who choose to commit genocide cannot stop until they are forced to. They cannot stop because they are forced to commit more killings in order to cover up their previous crimes, to suppress those who express dissent, and to murder all those who would resist.
We have chosen genocide, and now we will witness the resulting bloodshed. There are three logical conclusions to the path the US is following: financial collapse, climate collapse, or nuclear holocaust. Let us pray the financial collapse comes first.
—Christopher Overfelt, a member of both Veterans for Peace and the PeaceWorks KC Board, served in the Air Force National Guard in Topeka, KS, from 2002 to 2011 as an aircraft hydraulics mechanic. He deployed to Turkey and Qatar in 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. © Christopher Overfelt, 2025, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License.
