We are now officially the world's chief imperialist country without a bit of difference between the traditional "left" and "right" parties on that issue. We have unity on the need to invade anywhere and everywhere and for any or no good reason. It is horrible.
The press is complicit as they were in the Vietnam war. They make things up and uncritically publish any inane statement from an official.
Case in point, the statement "we have to stay in order to prevent India and Pakistan from going to war with each other." This statement should have been accompanied by some data about sales of arms and war planes to Pakistan during the last 3 years and Secretary of State Clinton's recent trip to India to sell war planes.
We have to sell war materials both countries and then go to other nearby countries with our soldiers and war materials to keep these other countries from using the weapons we sold. Convoluted enough for you? In collaboration with the right wing oligarchs in India and Pakistan, we have to sabotage any moves toward detente.
It's a win-win-win for the armaments industry and nobody else. The New York Times is reprising its disgusting performance during the Vietnam War. The Republicans have now been fully joined by the Democratic Party and the Democratic President, who have been effective in pulling in many of those who were doubters during the Bush years. Almost all elected officials and Party machineries are now backing criminal mass murder.
I hope that nobody here is still harboring the illusion that Obama has good intentions. It is up to us to resist.
UNITY-PROGRESS RESPONSE
The Republicans have now been fully joined by the Democratic Party and the Democratic President, who have been effective in pulling in many of those who were doubters during the Bush years.
Just when the public became seriously disgusted with far right Republican policies and began to rebel a little, for example, by not signing up for military service in adequate numbers, along came Barak Obama to continue those same policies but also to calm the public down, to regain cooperation from the public, and to fool the public into thinking those policies are not so bad.
We wouldn't want any real controversy, dissent, or public discussion of policy, would we? No, we can't have that, so the Republicans who were getting even dumbed down Americans upset had to go on hiatus.
But the Republicans will in a few short years be back in control since, for one thing, the Democrats are showing themselves to be dangerously incompetent in the eyes of "middle of the road voters". Obama's likely 2012 concession speech is a likely point in time for their return.
The above was in response to this article by Glenn Greenwald.
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