Scanning the headlines in the western mainstream press, and then peering behind the one-way mirror to compare that to the actual goings-on, one can't but get the impression that America's propagandists, and all those who follow in their wake, are struggling with all their might to concoct rationales for military action of one sort or another, be it supplying weapons to the largely defunct Ukrainian military, or staging parades of US military hardware and troops in the almost completely Russian town of Narva, in Estonia, a few hundred meters away from the Russian border, or putting US "advisers" in harm's way in parts of Iraq mostly controlled by Islamic militants.
The strenuous efforts to whip up Cold War-like hysteria in the face of an otherwise preoccupied and essentially passive Russia seems out of all proportion to the actual military threat Russia poses. (Yes, volunteers and ammo do filter into Ukraine across the Russian border, but that's about it.) Further south, the efforts to topple the government of Syria by aiding and arming Islamist radicals seem to be backfiring nicely. But that's the pattern, isn't it? What US military involvement in recent memory
hasn't resulted in a fiasco?
Maybe failure is not just an option, but more of a requirement?Let's review.
Afghanistan, after the longest military campaign in US history, is being
handed back to the Taliban.
Iraq no longer exists as a sovereign nation, but has
fractured into three pieces, one of them controlled by radical Islamists.
Egypt has been democratically reformed into
a military dictatorship.
Libya is a defunct state in the middle of
a civil war. The
Ukraine will soon be in a similar state; it has been reduced to
pauper status in record time—less than a year. A recent
government overthrow has caused
Yemen to stop being US-friendly. Closer to home, things are going so well in the US-dominated Central American countries of
Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that they have produced a
flood of refugees, all trying to get into the US in the hopes of finding any sort of sanctuary.
Comment: "National security." Not in the "public interest." No, revealing that a trusted, high-level politician gets his jollies abusing children is not in the public interest. What are we supposed to do? Expose these people?? They rule the country! Exposing them would tear down civilization's fabric. That's a matter of national security!
Some logic, huh? No, it is a matter of national security that these sick psychopaths are given the license to abuse, rape, and kill children. It is in the public interest that they are exposed, publicly shamed, and punished to the full extent of the law. All of them.
You can read the full Daily Beast article here: How Thatcher's Government Covered Up a VIP Pedophile Ring