As the contradictions and deceptions of Washington's policy become ever more glaring, US officials simply act as though the American people won't notice, or will believe anything. Or, for that matter, they won't see that $500 million can be conjured up instantly to pay for a criminal war, while working people are being told "there is no money" for health care, education, housing or jobs.
The destruction that the US oligarchs have wrought in the Middle East, with all of its terrible human consequences, is the external manifestation of their destructive role within the US itself -- smashing up the country's manufacturing base, turning its economy into a gambling casino for financial parasites, destroying the jobs and living standards of millions of people. With no answers to the growing crisis at home, they turn to violence abroad, only compounding the catastrophes they have created overseas.
The "not responsibles" and "not guilties" from Kerry, Kristof, Friedman and the other advocates and apologists for American military aggression won't wash. US imperialism is responsible for terrible crimes against humanity.
Yet no one has been held accountable. Not those in Washington -- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, et al. -- who conspired to wage a war of aggression; not those in the current administration, from Obama on down, who conspired to shield their predecessors and continue the same predatory policies; not the military brass who carried out the war; not the private contractors who enriched themselves off of it; not the lying media that helped foist the war onto the American public; not the cowardly and conformist academics who justified and went along with it.
Together, they are responsible for the catastrophes that have been inflicted upon the peoples of Iraq, Libya and Syria.
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