I honestly deeply despise articles like this. Articles like this are how we get trapped in forever wars. Fuck the Iran War. I didn’t want it to start, and I don’t want it to continue. But the main reason we get caught in forever wars is that the media lampoons any president that actually does the wise thing and ends the doomed conflict. They portray them as a coward or demonize them for letting troops’ deaths go to waste.
The media helps keep us there but the wars are pushed by the military industrialists and the fascist bourgousie who benefit from the wars, without the propaganda apparatus they would still keep us trapped in wars. A president can’t end the wars because the primary power of the government comes from this profit driven national security/intelligence and military apparatus.
I honestly deeply despise articles like this. Articles like this are how we get trapped in forever wars. Fuck the Iran War. I didn’t want it to start, and I don’t want it to continue. But the main reason we get caught in forever wars is that the media lampoons any president that actually does the wise thing and ends the doomed conflict. They portray them as a coward or demonize them for letting troops’ deaths go to waste.
The media helps keep us there but the wars are pushed by the military industrialists and the fascist bourgousie who benefit from the wars, without the propaganda apparatus they would still keep us trapped in wars. A president can’t end the wars because the primary power of the government comes from this profit driven national security/intelligence and military apparatus.