The journalist Piers Morgan sanctimoniously decries what he describes as the "despicably cruel, heartless and abusive way that many people in (the) UK and US have responded to the deaths of conservative politicians, Ann Widdecombe and Lindsey Graham". He also claims that the "least kind people on earth are ironically those on the #BeKind woke left". However, the truth is that such anti-eulogies are not confined to any segment of the ideological spectrum. And regarding Graham, the late U.S. Senator for South Carolina, the “abusive” comments voiced on social media after his demise were largely unrelated to conservative values, as they focused on his perpetual support for U.S. military intervention and his slavish devotion to Zionist interests.
Graham arguably typified the profile of the bought and paid off U.S. politician who is more apt at serving the interests of his donors than his constituents. He called for the murder of foreign leaders and he also called for and condoned the mass murder of civilian populations, both highly ironic given his training as a lawyer who as an active duty U.S. Air Force officer and as a reservist advised pilots on the laws of war.
He was a man who slavishly promoted the United States war machinery which
alongside his promotion of the imposition of sanctions has directly and
indirectly resulted in the deaths of millions of innocent civilians.
Graham personally profited from his devotion to the U.S. military industry and
the Zionist lobby, both causes which have ultimately led to the diminution of
American moral standing among the global community of nations, as well as its
unmanageable trillion dollar sovereign debt.
Graham effectively admitted that U.S. policy was geared towards using Ukraine
as a proxy force for the purpose of "weakening" Russia. To him the
aid given to Ukraine -a country which has suffered from the migration of a good
deal of its population and the loss of what can be objectively estimated to be
the physical destruction of well over a million men- was worth it because it
led to the deaths of Russians. Few who heard it are unlikely to forget his
precise remarks:
And the Russians are dying. The best money we’ve ever spent.
But Graham's support for proxies employed by the American empire to achieve certain geopolitical goals did not only include Ukraine. Along with John McCain, the late U.S. Senator with whom Graham worked together for many years in drumming up support for U.S. interventions, Graham approved of the use of Jihadist extremists in operations dedicated to the overthrow of the secular, anti-Zionist governments of Libya and Syria.
Indeed, Graham was pictured next to McCain as his colleague gave an award to Abdel Hakim Belhaj, the leader of the al-Qaeda-affiliated and now defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), during a visit to Benghazi in late 2011 to celebrate the overthrow of the government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
So while it is distasteful to use abusive language against the dead, it is
important that Graham be acknowledged to be the perennial warmonger and corrupt
politician that he was.
© Adeyinka Makinde (2026).
Adeyinka Makinde is a writer based in London, England.
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