#BreakShit when you see how effective media propaganda is. This time, we have another war hawk to contend with....one who will drag our poor peaceful little nation into this mess, for no good reason. Take a bow, Stephen Harper. Take one as well Mr Trudeau...you have marched your party right along with his. Kissenger would be proud, and, as is mentioned in the article, Dick Cheney is laughing his evil withered ass off. America is going to war again. People are scared again. The American news media have a scary monster in the Middle East again, and commentators are practically saluting on air. Again. Dick Cheney, smirking, is back on stage. Last week, at a speech in Washington, he called for immediate military action, sustained … across several fronts. The president must understand we are at war,” he declared, relishing the new moment. “We must do what it takes, for as long as it takes, to win. At about the same time, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was speaking in Manhattan. “At present,” said Johnson, who is actually in office and whose entire job is protecting America, “we have no credible information that ISIS is planning to attack the homeland of the United States.” *Johnson may as well have been dancing a jig, for all anyone noticed.* Polls suggest an overwhelming majority of Americans now believe that ISIS is a direct threat. Seventy-one per cent of people responding to a poll conducted by the Opinion Research Centre believe ISIS already has cells inside the U.S., ready to strike. Eighty per cent of respondents wanted Congress to authorize military action. Ninety per cent said ISIS is a direct threat to the American homeland. From jayvee to imminent threat Four months ago, barely anyone here had even heard of ISIS. They were just another Sunni extremist group, more or less as violent as the Mexican drug cartels operating right on America’s southern border. Eight months ago, President Obama mockingly compared ISIS to a “jayvee” – a junior varsity team, playing out of its league. Now, after a couple of public beheadings of American reporters, the mightiest nation in human history is suddenly scared. Not to diminish the horror of those executions, but this beheading business is hardly new – ISIS and its fellow extremist groups have been carrying out medieval executions for years. Nearly all the victims have been Arabs. cbc.ca/news/u-s-is-off-to-a-war-that-doesn-t-make-sense-again-neil-macdonald-1.2767870?cmp=rss
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:30:32 +0000
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