July 15, 2017

Pearls of expression.

For the neocons, it’s always 1938. The enemy is always the reincarnation of Hitler, and anyone who questions the wisdom of war is denounced as an “appeaser” in the fashion of Neville Chamberlain or Lindbergh. Yet no one ever examines and challenges the assumption behind this rhetorical trope, which is that war with the enemy of the moment – whether it be Saddam Hussein, the Iranian ayatollahs, or Vladimir Putin – is inevitable and imminent.[1]
And of immense benefit to the people in the war zone and to the people of [name of Western country].

Notes
[1] "Tucker Carlson, Neocon Slayer." By Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, 7/14/17.

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