The governmental institutions *were* behaving normally, for them, with the WMD sales campaign - I think so more than ever after a fiction novel mentioned "Operation Northwoods" and I was reading the wikipedia article on it a minute later with my jaw in my lap. Never had heard of it.
Journalistic institutions have never caught the false ca…
The governmental institutions *were* behaving normally, for them, with the WMD sales campaign - I think so more than ever after a fiction novel mentioned "Operation Northwoods" and I was reading the wikipedia article on it a minute later with my jaw in my lap. Never had heard of it.
Journalistic institutions have never caught the false casus belli, I think - not for the Spanish-American, Korean, Vietnamese, or either Iraq War. (The first one had a legit cause, but they threw in some fake dead babies-in-incubators to ensure popularity.)
I admire your faith in an institution with a 0% success record, across 120 years, at that particular journalistic job.
The distinction I can sign on with is that those liars, I think, genuinely believed they were lying the public into doing the Right Thing, and saving the world. Both the pols and the journos may have been exchanging winks.
The new lies, I concede, do not get the other party to sign on with them (as with all the war votes). The new lies also have no possible benign intent, just grift and kleptocracy.
If you liked Operation Northwoods for pie in the sky thinking than Operation Mongoose will knock your socks off. I think both were just products of their times and part of the proposal process of "throw everything at the board and see what will stick"
The governmental institutions *were* behaving normally, for them, with the WMD sales campaign - I think so more than ever after a fiction novel mentioned "Operation Northwoods" and I was reading the wikipedia article on it a minute later with my jaw in my lap. Never had heard of it.
Journalistic institutions have never caught the false casus belli, I think - not for the Spanish-American, Korean, Vietnamese, or either Iraq War. (The first one had a legit cause, but they threw in some fake dead babies-in-incubators to ensure popularity.)
I admire your faith in an institution with a 0% success record, across 120 years, at that particular journalistic job.
The distinction I can sign on with is that those liars, I think, genuinely believed they were lying the public into doing the Right Thing, and saving the world. Both the pols and the journos may have been exchanging winks.
The new lies, I concede, do not get the other party to sign on with them (as with all the war votes). The new lies also have no possible benign intent, just grift and kleptocracy.
Point taken.
If you liked Operation Northwoods for pie in the sky thinking than Operation Mongoose will knock your socks off. I think both were just products of their times and part of the proposal process of "throw everything at the board and see what will stick"