America is blessed in so many ways. Why
look at our Council on Foreign Relations as one shining example. The
think tank so well endowed with brilliant diplomats and policy wonder
boys is clearly the nucleus from whence US policy emanates. Case in
point September 24th, a headline by fellow Stephen Cook that
reads simply; “Syria: Let Putin Bleed.”
Oh my, we really have fallen this far!
Refugees streaming into Europe by
the tens of thousands, American servicemen and women deployed
far and wide in harm’s way, and taxpayer billions flowing like water
into the pockets of the military industrial complex, these tragedies
are no surprise now. Think tank conjurers stirring a brew for war in
Washington, why this is no news either. However commonplace the
propaganda gets though, I never expected even mad doctors of Middle East
policy to condone or recommend, blood should flow so freely as today. I
never expected even a former Brookings Institute fellow, and a PhD
doctor of disaster like Stephen Cook, to wish onto us all unlimited war.
Reading his latest post on the CFR blog “From the Potomac to the
Euphrates” I worry even more that Syria may well be, the mechanism of
our demise.