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An MSNBC columnist is calling for the end of the NORAD Santa tracker, claiming that it is time to “decouple” Santa Claus from American military culture.
In an op-ed published on MSNBC.com, opinion columnist Hayes Brown took issue with the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s 60-year tradition of tracking Santa Claus’s imaginary journey across the globe delivering presents and explained why “if had my way, this year would be the last.”
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“No, I’d prefer we end the tradition because it’s about time that we decoupled St. Nick from the world’s most powerful military,” Hayes Brown wrote. “American culture is saturated with a desire to associate the military with the saccharine. We get videos of soldiers returning home to their pets or children but never questions about why they were deployed for so long or what threat they were fighting; military jets flying over NFL games give us an injection of jingoist testosterone before more regionally focused battles of testosterone are played on the field; and we get the Netflix movie “Operation Christmas Drop,” a seasonally themed rom-com that cheerfully seeks to boost approval for America’s military base in Guam.”
Brown explained that he does not consider himself a “scrooge” and does acknowledge the joy the practice brings children but ultimately believes: “The messier business of war that goes on in the background doesn’t jibe with the Christmas spirit.”
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Brown pointed to drone strikes that have caused civilian casualties across the world and have helped “military officials avoid the political headaches that come from massive ground deployments.”
Brown outlined examples of the U.S. military, in his belief, not being held accountable for military strikes that left civilians dead and then wondered…
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