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Its All About Pakistan
Americas latest villain and future victim
by Justin Raimondo, May 09, 2011
With the assassination of Osama bin Laden, US foreign policy or, rather, the rationale for it has a giant hole in its very center: the task of the War Party is to fill it, and quickly.
Without a human face to put on the Terrorist Threat, without an ever-elusive target to lure us even deeper into the Muslim world, domestic political support for our post-9/11 multi-trillion-dollar excursion will quickly dry up. In a sense, the War Party is facing the same prospect they faced when the Soviet Union collapsed: total and complete irrelevance. That is particularly true at this conjuncture, with the US hurtling toward economic catastrophe and Americans getting noticeably restive in the face of cutbacks and severe economic straits.
Whats a warmonger to do?
Simple: come up with a new enemy, a fresh face or, better yet, an entire nation that can be demonized and made to play the role of stand-in for bin Laden. That nation, as youve probably already guessed, is Pakistan.
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Americas latest villain and future victim
by Justin Raimondo, May 09, 2011
With the assassination of Osama bin Laden, US foreign policy or, rather, the rationale for it has a giant hole in its very center: the task of the War Party is to fill it, and quickly.
Without a human face to put on the Terrorist Threat, without an ever-elusive target to lure us even deeper into the Muslim world, domestic political support for our post-9/11 multi-trillion-dollar excursion will quickly dry up. In a sense, the War Party is facing the same prospect they faced when the Soviet Union collapsed: total and complete irrelevance. That is particularly true at this conjuncture, with the US hurtling toward economic catastrophe and Americans getting noticeably restive in the face of cutbacks and severe economic straits.
Whats a warmonger to do?
Simple: come up with a new enemy, a fresh face or, better yet, an entire nation that can be demonized and made to play the role of stand-in for bin Laden. That nation, as youve probably already guessed, is Pakistan.
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