Saturday, August 5, 2017

Robert Parry — Neocons Leverage Trump-Hate for More Wars

The enactment of new sanctions against Russia and Iran – with the support of nearly all Democrats and Republicans in Congress – shows how the warmongering neocons again have come out on top, reports.
It's really amazing how a relatively small number of people can capture US policy and use propaganda to convince the American public that it is in their interest even though the public is largely fed up with foreign adventurism.

Slouching toward war, or rushing?

Consortium News
Neocons Leverage Trump-Hate for More Wars
Robert Parry

5 comments:

Kaivey said...

Does this mean that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren voted for this too?

Tom Hickey said...

Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders were the only senators to vote against it.

Kaivey said...

I'm glad Bernie voted against. a good guy, but how come all the others followed suite? They must be mad. They don't want to ruin their careers. so much for freedom of speech and American
individualism. The Neocons need to be locked up.

Kaivey said...

As Peter Koenig says, people are happy swigging beer and watching football and have no idea what's going on. When I try to tell them they usually don't believe me. And they have it drilled in so much that Putin is a gangster they find it shocking when I say he isn't.

Now imagine if Russia did what Israel does?

Imagine if Russia had flattened Iraq on faulty intelligence, intelligence that people in the West would be told was was most certainly fake.

Imagine if Russia went into Afghanistan and started a war there killing millions without any evidence that Bin Laden did it? Imagine if Russia had killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Afghanistan to get a handful of Saudi terrorists who lived in the mountains? And imagine if the Taliban had said to the Russians we will give you Bin Laden if you put him on trail in an UN court and the Russians said no, we know Bin Laden did it so we are going in anyway?

And I can go on with Libya and Syria where hundreds of thousands have lost their lives.

So what has Russia done so wrong to bring on such wrath?

Tom Hickey said...

The Forgotten Game: Why is Russia Enemy #1 for the US and West?

The Forgotten Game: Why is Russia Enemy #1 for the US and West?