Lying Us Into War Is A Lot Easier These Days
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 2:46 am
In the run-up to World War II, Franklin Roosevelt played the role of the reluctant warmonger. Rather than initiating the action, he took care to be always responding to the war cries of his hopped up left-wing supporters – who were demanding US intervention on behalf of the beleaguered Soviet Union. The American people wanted to stay out of the European war, and the President had to ever-so-cautiously led them down the primrose path, deceiving them every step of the way while he and Winston Churchill plotted behind their backs to get us into the war.
As the 1940 campaign came down to the wire, Roosevelt intoned: “I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”
A year later, in alliance with “Uncle” Joe Stalin, we were at war on two fronts.
Back then, it took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the death of 2,400 service members and civilians to get us into a world war. Today it takes a video of the horrific deaths of two American journalists traveling in a war zone, played over and over in an infinite loop of orchestrated hysteria. If they’d only had YouTube in Roosevelt’s day he would’ve succeeded in lying us into war much sooner.
...Just as Roosevelt took the “back door to war” in 1941, inching ever closer to full engagement with the enemy but not so fast as to startle the American people, so Obama is taking the back door to regime change in Syria, easing us into it slowly – until the next “traumatic” event catalyzes a new wave of war hysteria that will take us up to the next level.
This is what Hillary Clinton fought for during her tenure at the State Department: together with David Petraeus, the two of them plotted and schemed to use the Syrian rebels as a battering ram against Bashar al-Assad – and, standing behind him, Iran.
So they’re getting their Syrian war anyway: the War Party, always a sore loser, never takes a defeat lying down.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/obamas-doubletalk-and-the-infinite-loop-of-orchestrated-hysteria/
As the 1940 campaign came down to the wire, Roosevelt intoned: “I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”
A year later, in alliance with “Uncle” Joe Stalin, we were at war on two fronts.
Back then, it took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the death of 2,400 service members and civilians to get us into a world war. Today it takes a video of the horrific deaths of two American journalists traveling in a war zone, played over and over in an infinite loop of orchestrated hysteria. If they’d only had YouTube in Roosevelt’s day he would’ve succeeded in lying us into war much sooner.
...Just as Roosevelt took the “back door to war” in 1941, inching ever closer to full engagement with the enemy but not so fast as to startle the American people, so Obama is taking the back door to regime change in Syria, easing us into it slowly – until the next “traumatic” event catalyzes a new wave of war hysteria that will take us up to the next level.
This is what Hillary Clinton fought for during her tenure at the State Department: together with David Petraeus, the two of them plotted and schemed to use the Syrian rebels as a battering ram against Bashar al-Assad – and, standing behind him, Iran.
So they’re getting their Syrian war anyway: the War Party, always a sore loser, never takes a defeat lying down.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/obamas-doubletalk-and-the-infinite-loop-of-orchestrated-hysteria/