Comment: This is one case of many highlighting America's culture of corruption and lies. One critical result of believing all of these lies? Well, as Pierre Lescaudron writes in "Earth Changes: The Human-Cosmic Connection":
False information doesn't exhibit internal consistency; the individual pieces are incompatible; they don't 'resonate' with each other, they partly cancel each other, and they hinder access to any higher level of order (the law of mathematical addition).
Political language can be used, George Orwell said in 1946, "to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." In order to justify its global assassination program, the Obama administration has had to stretch words beyond their natural breaking points. For instance, any male 14 years or older found dead in a drone strike zone is a "combatant" unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving him innocent. We are also informed that the constitutional guarantee of "due process" does not imply that the government must precede an execution with a trial. I think the one word most degraded and twisted these days, to the goriest ends, is the word "imminent."
Just what constitutes an "imminent" threat? Our government has long taken bold advantage of the American public's willingness to support lavish spending on armaments and to accept civilian casualties in military adventures abroad and depletion of domestic programs at home, when told these are necessary responses to deflect precisely such threats. The government has vastly expanded the meaning of the word "imminent." This new definition is crucial to the U.S. drone program, designed for projecting lethal force throughout the world. It provides a legal and moral pretext for the annihilation of people far away who pose no real threat to us at all.
Comment: Also see:
Historical Cycles - Are we doomed to repeat the past?
Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes