Yep. And 80% of the population has fallen for it. By the way, Hagel was fired because he was not a neocon. Barack Obama is for all intents and purposes now a neocon. For most of his term, people called realists were in charge and the neocons were sidelined. Then the neocons came in through the back door and took over again. The media is all cheering on the removal of Hagel in favor of a “more forceful” foreign policy, which means that most of the media is apparently run by the neocon crowd. At any rate, 100% of the Western media is now down with the neocon project. But then the media has always been part of the Neocon Project. Name one major media outlet that opposed The War on the Iraqi People. Name one. One.
Worse Than Cold War
The neocons who manipulate America’s clueless politicians have not got us into a new Cold War. It is much worse. The long rivalry with the Soviet Union was “Cold” because of MAD, Mutual Assured Destruction. Both Washington and Moscow were perfectly aware that “Hot” war meant nuclear exchanges that would destroy everybody.
The danger of outright war between the two nuclear powers is actually much greater than during the Cold War. We are now in a sort of Frozen War, because nothing the Russians say or do can have any effect.
The neocons who manufacture U.S. policy behind the scenes have invented a totally fictional story about Russian “aggression” which the President of the United States, the mass media and now the Congress have accepted and endorsed. Russian leaders have responded with honesty, truth and common sense, remaining calm despite the invective thrown at them. It has done no good whatsoever. The positions are frozen. When reason fails, force follows. Sooner or later.
