Well well, here we are again, happy 9/11 Day. Another year goes by and now another endless undefined war we are expected to support.
13 years ago we didn’t understand that Al Qaeda was partly a blowback from a previous covert operation a decade before. But today we do know that ISIS/ISIL/IS is partly a blowback from a not very covert war less than a year ago! Even the mainstream media’s acknowledgement of this fact can’t stop Team America from Freedomizing™ the Middle East.
It does not matter that our Dear Leader this time was originally elected on a wave of disgust for the previous illegal war in Iraq – strangely, according the Washington DC logic going these days, the fact that our Dear Leader also received a Nobel Peace Prize only seems to legitimize his wars even more. We all know Orwell is laughing at us, and yet we allow this to happen anyway.
Obama’s election in 2008 killed the Antiwar movement just as the 2012 election sucked all the energy out of the American Occupy movement. The threat of next Sarah Palin is always more important to Americans (specifically Democratic voters) than all the thousands who will die in America’s next war.
A lot of people and important stuff died on September 11, 2001 – such as, Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of this US Constitution. Today it is only footnote for another time when Congress approved or prevented wars. The Nobel Peace Prize winner in the White House doesn’t even ‘consult’ Congress anymore and only requests money (which has already spent anyway).
The American Republic is dead. The Empire is weaker than the Elites themselves understand. Hubris is a powerful and addictive drug. In history, all this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
Happy 9/11 Day.
—jd
Spencer Ackerman in The Guardian writes: ‘…the White House signaled that Obama already “has the authority he needs to take action” against Isis without congressional approval. Obama said he would welcome congressional support but framed it as optional, save for the authorisations and the $500m he wants to use the US military to train Syrian rebels….’
— http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/obama-isis-syria-air-strikes-legal-argument
, but here used to bring multiple charges against Sterling for Risen reporting on the Iran fiasco both in the Times and in his book State of War. Yes, in the United States today, you can face prison time not just for revealing a secret, but for encouraging someone to write a book about that secret…’