Up Periscope? Yell: A Submarine!

A PERISCOPE SUFFERS A LOSS OF DEPTH PERCEPTION

For a week, although slightly shorter in duration than the events aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, when the San Francisco Chronicle joined progressive news partners like the Washington Post, in an ensemble cast of commentators that even included the World Socialist, to tug upon our heartstrings to cheer for a naval commander offloading 2,000 sailors, alleged to be infected with a highly contagious and lethal disease to luxury private hotel rooms on a territorial island of poor, old, little brown people, the sinking of the Indonesian submarine, its loss of 53 sailors, and the lately released video of them singing farewell may have altered your perspective of these events, especially if you lacked the historical expertise to miss the obvious similarities in the Guam story to the Sinking of the Maine.

So, for a moment, hop out from your ideological news silo and look at another perspective on these events.