Posted on 11/24/2020 6:04:40 AM PST by RandFan
... But it was one WikiLeaks document that particularly caught my attention at first: a classified 2010 CIA “Red Cell Memorandum,” named after the highly secretive unit created by Bush/Cheney CIA Director George Tenet in the wake of the 9/11 attack.
What made this document so fascinating, so revealing, is the CIA’s discussion of how to manipulate public opinion to ensure it remains at least tolerant of if not supportive of Endless War and, specifically, the vital role President Obama played for the CIA in packaging and selling U.S. wars around the world. In this classified analysis, one learns a great deal about how the “military industrial complex,” also known as the “Blob” or “Deep State,” reasons; how the Agency exploits humanitarian impulses to ensure continuation of its wars; and what the real function is of the U.S. President when it comes to foreign policy.
What prompted the memo was the CIA’s growing fears that the population of Western Europe — as evidenced by the fall of the Dutch Government driven in large part by the electorate’s anger over involvement in Afghanistan — was rapidly turning against the War on Terror generally and the war in Afghanistan specifically. The CIA was desperate to figure out how to stem the tide of anti-war sentiment growing throughout that region, particularly to shield France and Germany from it, by manipulating public opinion.
The Agency concluded: its best and only asset for doing that was President Obama and his popularity in Western European cities.
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bkmk
It is interesting. Note how mattis is coming out now about putting america last..paraphrasing him
Hope we don’t get Obama term 3.
The CIA also has the support of people like the so-called “Mad Dog” Mattis (I believe he gave himself the nickname as he is suspected of being gay and doesn’t want to publicly admit it); Romney, Liz Cheney and GW and Jeb Bush (none of whom, nor any of their children, served in a foreign Mideast conflict or other war but are huge advocates of others doing so at their bidding); and the 20 percent of the population that considers itself “elite” (which means they will profit from the terror scare and the endless wars but almost invariably, have neither themselves nor relatives been involved in actually fighting them. As in Jennifer Rubin, John Bolton, George Will (together with his ill-fitting toupee), William Kristol, and most of the writers at National Review.
I think it would be an excellent idea for Glenn to send this off to Tucker Carlson.
Endless wars are not only profitable for the elites, but allow deflection of public anger from the elites to “the enemy”, and when that is insufficient, the people are singled out as “the enemy”. It’s primitive, it’s tribal, it’s very 1984.
I saw Jake Tapper tweeting the deep state criticism of Trump withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.
Anything to knock Trump.
Liberals are pro-War.
Thank you for posting.
Donald Trump has enormous courage - especially when we remember JFK.
Bush’s New World Order...because us normal hard working patriotic Christian Americans would never go for a Satanic Cabal of Globalists telling us what to do...
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