U.S. is off to a war that doesn’t make sense – again: Neil Macdonald 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 onstage. 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 [...] ilinnews/u-s-is-off-to-a-war-that-doesnt-make-sense-again-neil-macdonald/
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:30:31 +0000
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