From Canada: U.S. is off to a war that doesn't make sense – again
Source: CBC News
By Neil Macdonald
America is going to war again. People are scared again. The American news media have a scary monster in the Middle East again, and commentators are practically saluting on air. Again.
Dick Cheney, smirking, is back onstage. Last week, at a speech in Washington, he called for immediate military action, "sustained … across several fronts."
... Now, after a couple of public beheadings of American reporters, the mightiest nation in human history is suddenly scared. Not to diminish the horror of those executions, but this beheading business is hardly new – ISIS and its fellow extremist groups have been carrying out medieval executions for years. Nearly all the victims have been Arabs.
... Which brings us back to the incredible gall of Dick Cheney. This is the fellow who was practically in charge of the massive deceptions the Bush administration used to justify the last U.S. invasion and war that led to much of the chaos going on right now. ... He was also behind the weapons of mass destruction canard, one of the most destructive falsehoods in modern history – one that directly led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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