America's "Moderates" Are Wild, Crazy — and More Extreme Than Any
http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/ted-rall/56385/americas-moderates-are-wild-crazy-and-more-extreme-than-any
America's "Moderates" Are Wild, Crazy and More Extreme Than Any
by Ted Rall | June 13, 2014 - 10:45am
Every damn second of every stupid day in this brain-dead nation, the insipid overlords of Americas inane corporate news media put out the same message: extremism is extremely bad.
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If you criticize the mainstream (the current government, the biggest corporations, the most well-connected journalistic elites) in a sustained way especially if you call those in charge out for breaking their own rules and laws you will be categorized as one of these horrible extremists.
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The war, of course, was an extreme affair. Between $2 trillion and $6 trillion down the shitter. 4,500 dead American troops. Hundreds of thousands whose brains will never be right again. At least a million more like two million dead Iraqis. Who can count them all? A Second World oil state, secular socialist and authoritarian, reduced by ten years of American occupation to civil war and total societal, political and economic disintegration, Third World going on Fourth.
And what about the way it began? Ginned up out of whole cloth. Even by U.S. standards, it takes some big stones to justify attacking a nation that never attacked, or threatened to attack, you. Pretending that you know about WMDs, and then getting caught lying, and then not only not apologizing and immediately withdrawing, but doubling down (c.f., the surge)?