10 months ago when President Obama launched the ISIS war, he promised no ground troops under any circumstances, fresh off the announcement of 450 more ground troops headed to the country and talk of 1,000+ more to follow, there is talk of “mission creep,” which Army chief Gen. Ray Odierno is trying to dispel.
“I don’t think it’s mission creep,” Odierno insisted on MSNBC today, describing it instead as an “expansion of the current policy,” a distinction which at this point, 3,000+ troops into the ground war, appears to amount to splitting hairs
At the same time, the ISIS war has always been ill-defined in its goals and contours, so it’s difficult to conclusively say what Obama promised and what he just heavily implied in an attempt to sell the public on this being a much smaller war than it’s ending up.
Every new escalation of the war is followed up with the administration revising its previous comments on the war to insist that promises of no ground troops meant no combat troops, then no “enduring combat troops,” and so on. With so many of the escalations seemingly designed simply to justify further escalations in the future, it’s entirely possible officials are seeing the “mission” as backdooring their way into a new Iraq War. In that regard, everything must seem to them as simply on track.
Look…they/he lied to us before – and they're lying to us now and I suspect that nothing is going to change. They are going to get what they want regardless of what "we the people" think. It's just a matter of the degree of arrogance they employ. Eventually they are going to realize that the majority of Americans don't want to know what their government is doing and then they'll stop trying to explain. And as for those of us in the minority who do want to know…well, we're royally phugged, aren't we.
I don't watch TeeVee but happened to see about an hour of Fox News mid morning "programming" while getting the oil changed in my car. A full 45 of those minutes was various vectors of outright falsehoods serving as warmonger propaganda. The other 15 minutes was fear propaganda about purported violent crimes somewhere in hinterland USA justifying a militarized police state. Seriously. There was nothing else even mentioned. Not even 5 minutes of some throwaway human interest piece. Even if Americans don't want to know, those that are consuming MSM media are being ruthlessly conditioned to accept, and actually cheer, anything their rulers do.
You've made my point. The MSM have no interest in actually telling people what they need to know in order for the people to participate in governing – being educated enough to understand what our electeds are doing and when the electeds stray beyond their responsibilities of representing the people, vote them out – or prosecute them.
Uneducated people are much easier to manipulate – and control.
Evils of war — Do they have a good purpose?
For a moment let us assume that nature has a deity that is striving to protect all of creation by enlightening man of the danger in doing things that cause a state of war. So, by intelligent design are the most evil nations allowed to have nuclear weapons, with Empire USA being the most evil nation in world history and when we reach the ultimate conclusion of all our wars of aggression, then all things shall turn toward the good.
For liars use a pretense of good to hide their evil intent, making it impossible to know the difference between good and evil unless we witnessed by experience the ultimate conclusion of evil. What this planet of the ingrates is all about.