Endless War category archive

What Noz said.

Also, they never consider the possibility that things might not go exactly as they want them to.

Shorter Cid Standifer: Those who forget ignore history are condemned to repeat it.

The only persons who could find this surprising are those who haven’t been paying attentioin.

Dan Simpson wonders why more Americans don’t question our endless, often pointless and stupid, wars.

The answer is simple.

There’s no draft.

America’s endless wars are remote things that happen somewhere else to someone else, while most Americans occupy themselves with Pokemon-Go–er, Fortnite–and “social” media.

We are a society of stupid.

Via Job’s Anger.

Via Job’s Anger.

Via Job’s Anger.

Via Job’s Anger.

Jane Harman, former Congressperson and current president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, ponders the pressure for yet another Great and Glorious War for a Lie with a Country whose Name Starts with “I.” She recalls Colin Powell’s speech mongering the Great and Glorious War for a Lie in Iraq.

A snippet:

I have no doubt Powell believed what he was saying, but our intelligence turned out to be dead wrong, and I was wrong to vote to authorize the war. Thousands of American deaths and trillions of dollars later, Iraq is still a mess, which has permitted Iran to expand its malign reach throughout the Middle East.

Much later, Powell would call his U.N. speech a “great intelligence failure” and a “blot” on his record.

Shaun Mullen.

Mike warns that we are again facing a Great and Glorious War for a Lie in a Country with a Name that Starts with “I” and discusses the long history of U. S. and British meddling in Iran. Some of his analogies may seem a bit extreme, but I wonder . . . .

The video is below the fold because of language and the possibility of autoplay.

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Seth and Trita Parsi discuss whether John Bolton is maneuvering us into another Great and Glorious War for a Lie in a country whose name starts with an “I.”