As usual, Jimmy and his crew do an excellent job of educating the audience about the ugly truth behind all the official praise. If there’s one who proves that lies in foreign policy can mean tragedy and death wholesale, is Colin Powell, and his all too common ilk throughout the US “national security” apparatus.
WJ ASTORE—The disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq, among others, are already being sent down the Memory Hole to oblivion. After all, there’s always another war looming, so we’re told, which serves to convince most Americans that a strong “defense” is needed. So why not support our troops. We’re going to need them to fight the next war, right?
This is precisely how we fail to support our troops. We don’t ask enough tough questions – and we don’t demand enough honest answers – about why the next war is necessary. How it serves national defense and the ideals of the U.S. Constitution. We are always pressured to salute smartly, even if we’ve never served in the military. And that way lies militaristic madness.
So, if I had to define how best to support our troops, I’d answer with another bumper sticker motto: Question Authority. Especially when it’s wrapped in the flag and camouflaged by a military uniform.
ERIC ZUESSE—‘News’-media in the West are milking the blame-China cow for all the regime-change-in-China hatred they can whip up among their masses against China or at least against its Government, but even if this virus was created there, and even if it was created at a military lab there (neither of which is yet — if ever — knowable), the United States was definitely doing biological warfare against China decades before China had any biological-warfare program at all — and that was no American mistake, it was the American intention. Furthermore, in America, each political Party is blaming the other Party, not blaming only China, though the U.S. Government’s guilt as a biological-warfare nation is actually bipartisan.
MICHAEL HUDSON—Hardly anyone asks how the U.S. ever got in. Jimmy Carter was suckered by the Polish Russia-hater Brzezinski and created Al Qaeda to act as America’s foreign legion, subsequently expanded to include ISIS and other terrorist armies against countries where U.S. diplomacy seeks regime change. Carter’s alternative to Soviet Communism was Wahabi fanaticism, solidifying America’s alliance with Saudi Arabia. Carter memorably said that at least these Muslims believed in God, just like Christians. But the Wahabi fundamentalism army was sponsored by Saudi Arabia, which paid for arming Al Qaeda to fight against Sunni Moslems and, early on, the Russian-backed Afghan government.
PATRICE GREANVILLE—We know by now that faux rebel satirists like Colbert are really smooth and stealth warmongering disinformers, having perfected the craft of seamlessly injecting imperial messages into their streams of “harmless” jokes. I don’t find that funny at all. Further, strictly on comedic terms, Colbert does not deserve the pantheon because his routine is not based on truth, the essence of which allows comedy to acquire genuine greatness.