The corporate media in the United States is now calling for re-intervention in Iraq following the success of a former al-Qaeda affiliate in taking over the northwestern part of the country. CNN, forever a trusty asset of the Pentagon and the War Party, is floating the prospect of airstrikes:
Should U.S. carry out air strikes in Iraq? 2 Iraq vets @TulsiGabbard @RepKinzinger split on answer http://t.co/eLraZkzTfU #TheLead
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 13, 2014
The New York Times, fulfilling its role as a primary conduit for war propaganda (as it did during the previous illegal invasion), is providing the information required to set the stage for humanitarian intervention, a term now routinely used by Democrats and liberals to make mass murder palatable to a war weary public. The usual front for this is the United Nations:
U.N. Warns of Rights Abuses and Hundreds Dead in Iraq Fighting http://t.co/4S5aNF18DS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 13, 2014
Of course, to get your attention, the threat posed by a group indirectly created by the CIA and its terror-generating partners (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey) must be personalized. Gas prices at the pump are set to skyrocket:
Flaring Iraq conflict could ricochet into oil prices http://t.co/RteLFUczsd
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 13, 2014
Naturally, the withdrawal of troops from Iraq is considered a foreign policy failure by the establishment:
Iraq exposes failed U.S. policy: The @usatopinion editorial board view http://t.co/NAHxxL3tZ1
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) June 13, 2014
Seasoned establishment propagandist, Glenn Beck, fanned the flames of fear and paranoia by predicting on Sean Hannity’s Fox show al-Qaeda will basically take over the world. “Nature abhors a vacuum and we have left a vacuum around the world,” Beck said. In other words, the idea that the U.S. shouldn’t be the world’s policeman is a tragic mistake:
.@glennbeck issues dire Iraq prediction on @seanhannity’s show: http://t.co/hNlQKl1Xw2 pic.twitter.com/AOddBBZugV
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) June 13, 2014
CNN agrees with Beck:
How ISIS and Iraq upheaval threatens the wider world http://t.co/oinSvEU6Qi
— Juliette (@Juliet777777) June 12, 2014
Perpetual war for perpetual peace and, of course, perpetual profits for the war machine. According to The Guardian, the problem is the American people pulled out too early:
Operation Iraqi Freedom vet @colbybuzzell remembers #Mosul: Iraq 3.0 is what happens when you exit a war early http://t.co/gBi8h7rcUR #ISIS
— GuardianUS (@GuardianUS) June 13, 2014
CNN again: Airstrike will be useless. You know what that means:
U.S. military planners worry that Iraq airstrikes could be futile, officials say. http://t.co/a7pyHS9thy
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 13, 2014
Then again, airstrike and blowing things up might work, at least in the short term:
"Absent immediate airstrikes, [Iraq] could go down the drain in a dramatic fashion," former ambassador says http://t.co/QPdChE0VCl
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 13, 2014
It’s inevitable:
Trail of jihadist victories in Iraq could force renewed military action from US: http://t.co/X1pVC2h19w
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 13, 2014
Never mentioned by the corporate media is the fact the current situation in Iraq is the direct result of two previous Bush invasions with the help of George W. Bush’s fourth brother, Bill Clinton, who imposed a decade of brutal medieval sanctions.
The latest “humanitarian intervention” now ramping up will redouble the misery of the Iraqi people, many who prefer the iron-fisted sharia totalitarianism of the jihadists to the engineered order out of chaos sectarian violence encouraged by the financial elite and their neocon masters of “creative destruction” over at the Pentagon.
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