God does not change the condition of a people...

" Surely God does not change the condition of a people until they change their own condition (what is in their hearts) ; if God willeth misfortune for a folk there is none that can repel it, nor have they a defender beside Him " (The Thunder: 11, Quran).

Over the last five decades, we have witnessed a wave of US military interventions; a series of bombings, invasions, and long-term occupations. Undertaken we have been told, by one president after another, with the most noble of intentions and paid for with the lives of Americans and countless other innocent people around the world. What has occurred with one war after another, is still with us. These dynamics are in play in terms of the US occupation of Iraq, looking at other countries such as Iran and Syria, and the future will be replicated to the extent that we fail to understand, what has been done with these wars in the past.

The news media have generally bought into and promoted the notion that it's up to the President to make foreign policy decisions. This smart guy in the oval office has access to all the information, he knows more than we do, he's the commander in chief and the American people have no major role to play and nor should they because after all they don't have the knowledge or capability to be responsive to the real situation. Watch this:



That was certainly true during the Vietnam War as it was to be later time after time. There were people in Congress who raised these issues and they simply were marginalized by the news media even though in retrospect, maybe especially because in retrospect, they had it right and the conventional wisdom and the President were wrong:

And this is a very common motif of history in the last several decades where people who at the time were portrayed as loners, as mavericks, as outside of the mainstream of wisdom turned out to understand the historical moment.

War Made Easy : http://www.warmadeeasythemovie.org/

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