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The people that say and repeat these things are lying to us, and most of all, to themselves. What they would be saying, were they more honest, is something like this: “Many people saw these things coming and said so quite clearly. However, we elite opinion-makers—deeply and comfortably embedded within the normalizing master narratives generated by our friends and colleagues to explain the how the world ‘really works’—chose not to pay them heed. Indeed, we not only did not listen, but frequently mocked such people as nuts, cynics and conspiracy theorists.”
Thirteen years ago, the US inaugurated “the West’s” latest cycle of industrial-scale destruction, this time in the Middle East. Most of us cannot still cannot bring ourselves to say that this is what our government has done, nor admit the obvious similarity of these actions to those taken in the name of “securing the homeland” by figures of the mid-20th century whom we like to parade before our young as the incarnation of pure evil.
As our attempts to bomb, starve and terrorize people in that region into submission fail, as they must, our government will, like all stumbling imperial governments before it, step up its already vigorous efforts to monitor and quash dissident opinion at home. Still more careers, lives and families will be shattered as a result.