The Buoy that cried Wolfowitz
Yeah, I remember Robert Strange McNamara and other frauds, like General William Westmoreland. Though the Vietnam and Iraq wars were entirely different in purpose and impact, the bullshit that propelled the Vietnam War has been replicated numerous times since, especially in Latin America and the Middle East.
It continues today. We cannot trust our current executive branch’s assertions - even if true - because its record of dishonesty and fraud is too long, too deep and too consistent.
We have no doubt that some foreign governments pose a threat to some of our citizens, our military, and one or two might even pose a threat of overthrowing our land. But as much as their emnity, we are also endangered by the dishonesties of our own government officials. By breaking our trust, we cannot know when there is someone at our back, armed with ill-intent, when there are also fictional characters there, armed only with taunts for their own domestic propaganda purposes.
Those speedboats, indeed, might pose a threat to our warships, but those warships, indeed, pose a threat to the lives of 70 million Iranians and their government.
Which is the most dangerous fowl in this game of chicken? In any translation, both sides demonstrate there’s a whole lotta dumb clucks in charge and too many roosters cashing in on virtual cockfights.
