That all-too-familiar, giddy, bipartisan climate: Can you feel it?

[Truth2Tell]

Glenn Greenwald has a paragraph in his latest piece that nails what I've been feeling about Yemen:

In the wake of the latest failed terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines, one can smell the excitement in the air -- that all-too-familiar, giddy, bipartisan climate that emerges in American media discourse whenever there's a new country we get to learn about so that we can explain why we're morally and strategically justified in bombing it some more. "Yemen" is suddenly on every Serious Person's lips. We spent the last month centrally involved to some secret degree in waging air attacks on that country -- including some that resulted in numerous civilian deaths -- but everyone now knows that this isn't enough and it's time to Get Really Serious and Do More.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/29/terrorism/index.html">the whole thing is worth reading here...

The manufacture of consent has become so predictable. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. They don't even change it up much anymore. America has become so easy to sell that they can practically phone it in.