"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
It's That Simple
Same shit war, different day. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up!
"'The memo concludes,' the Times informs us, 'It is time that the United States, guided by our strategic interests and moral convictions, lead a global effort to put an end to this conflict once and for all.'
Oh yeah, that should pretty much fix everything. War is addictive, whether you wage it from a terrorist cell or from some perch in the military-industrial complex of the most powerful country on the planet.
The Center for Citizen Initiatives responded at the time: 'Similar statements and promises have been made regarding Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. In all three cases, terrorism and sectarianism have multiplied, the conflicts still rage, and huge amounts of money and lives have been wasted.'"
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