By Horatio Green
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The Tawhid portion of
The Shahada in white Arabic script
above the Seal of Muhammad (reading, bottom
to top:
muhammad rasul[u]allah[i], "Muhammad, messenger
/prophet of God): Wikimedia
Commons, Public Domain:
Photo Essay:Black Flag" by William McCants,
November 7, 2011, ForeignPolicy.com
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Let’s face it; before the United States can go to war, it
must first induce an abundance of fear and at least one good lie. We have been
seduced by fear mongering to justify the bombing of ISIS targets inside Iraq.
But as scary as our military and government hyped up ISIS in Iraq, Obama still found
it necessary to make it even scarier in order to justify bombing and the firing
of missiles on terrorist targets inside Syria. And, what could be better than
to discover a new Syrian terrorist threat. One that’s even more dangerous and
threatening than ISIS is: “The Khorasan Group.”
It’s quite a story, but it’s a made-up story.
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain tell that story in their
article, “The
Khorasan Group: Anatomy of a Fake Terror Threat to Justify Bombing Syria.”
It “… laid the fear-producing groundwork for President Obama
to claim self-defense when he announced the bombing campaign on September 23
with this boast: “Once again, it must be clear to anyone who would plot against
America and try to do Americans harm that we will not tolerate safe havens for
terrorists who threaten our people.”
What Obama did is essentially no different than “Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin
Incident and Colin Powell's supposedly infallible arguments for war with Iraq
that turn out to be false.”
That’s right; we’ve been duped once again.
Copyright © 2014 Horatio Green
