The Warmongering Has Begun

After Trump issued an order, long overdue, to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, the warmongering media and the Biden pre-administration went ballistic. This was a response which did not take days or even hours. It happened in minutes.

Within hours, the corporate media was publishing one rationale after another to express their fantasy justifications for extending the 19 year US military presence in Afghanistan and 17 year presence in Iraq. “Explaining” why US troops should be kept in harm’s way in countries which do not want us there.

Not once did they or will they mention the fact that the Iraqi parliament voted unanimously to expel US forces, making our military presence a military occupational force, illegal under international law. Just as the corporate media never mentions that our presence in Syria is illegal under international law.

Within the same hours, Biden managed to come out of his basement to have a public, poorly devised, hastily constructed, panicked remote meeting with his transition team. During this overtly disorganized and substance-devoid propaganda media display, Biden used such key phrases as “diplomacy” in direct conjunction with “maintaining American leadership” in international relations.