Over the weekend, the Obama Administration presented the massive Saturday night ISIS attack in Baghdad as something that only “bolstered” America’s resolve to win the war militarily. Today, Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken insisted that it wasn’t just about resolve, that the bombings themselves were a sign of America’s military success.
The Baghdad bombings killed 215 people and wounded 175 others. A number of children were among the slain. The largest attack was a suicide bombing against a major Shi’ite shopping district, which was crowded because of the breaking of the Ramadan fast.
Blinken argued that the US war is going so well, with the US beating them by “every single measure,” that ISIS is launching even more attacks than ever, saying the attacks too are “a measure of the success we’re having” in defeating them militarily.
The argument has been a common one among US officials throughout recent wars, particularly when they aren’t going so well. The Pentagon has similarly presented the large number of Taliban attacks in Afghan as a sign of progress regularly over the last decade and a half, despite the war clearly getting worse and worse throughout.
US officials have begun using the argument more and more not just in Afghanistan, but in the ISIS war as well, suggesting that they’re making the same “this war is going to get worse and last forever” progress in this open-ended conflict as well.
Defeat is victory!
This is the kind of denial the U.S. used during the Vietnam war. Like now the Vietnam war often took second stage in the corporate media to current pop culture events. And like now a series of catastrophic bombings and other horrific Viet Cong attacks were signs of enemy weakness and that the U.S. was winning.
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And the government stooges, sycophants and quislings wonder why the American people (not to mention the rest of the world) do not believe anything the government has to say. But then, they have never been willing nor capable of admitting that whatever it is they are doing is an epic fail – that might reveal the fact that they either have no idea what it is they are doing or that they know exactly what it is they are doing and would most likely end up in jail if they admitted it. Well, on second thought, after yesterday’s pronouncement re: the Cankle Queen, probably not.
Nov 20, 2015 The One Thing You Need to Know About ISIS, ‘Americans please wake up!’
https://youtu.be/vkxFT_hJCdQ
http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf
That video is to the point and hitting nails squarely on the head.
The bonus document’s helps as well. Thanks’ Southern!
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State Dept: Growing ISIS Attacks a Sign of US War ‘Success”
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ~ Orwell