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What We're Supposed to Think

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We're supposed to think that Iraq has benefitted from U.S. wars.

We're supposed to think that missiles harm fewer civilians than do chemical weapons.

We're supposed to think that Gadaffi was about to massacre civilians and hand out Viagra for mass rape.

We're supposed to think that the experience of destroying Iraq and Libya has no bearing on the question of whether to destroy Syria.

We're supposed to think that ISIS emerged full-grown and by magic from Satan's anus while we weren't looking.

We're supposed to think that one can support both war and environmentalism.

We're supposed to think that human rights groups are more credible when they refuse to take any position on any wars.

We're supposed to think that we would have fewer, not more, civil liberties if not for all the wars.

We're supposed to think that refugees aren't fleeing anything the U.S. government did.

We're supposed to think that local police simply wanted and needed to start looking like warriors, the surplus weaponry available from the federal government being simply serendipitous.

We're supposed to think that troops participating in wars always want those wars continued.

We're supposed to think that when a Russian plane flies near a U.S. plane off the coast of Russia, that's an act of aggression toward the United States.

We're supposed to think that Bashar al Assad was good when he tortured people for the CIA but bad when he tortured people on his own.

We're supposed to think that expanding NATO to Russia's border and installing missile bases there is a means of protecting the United States from Iran.

We're supposed to think that corporate media outlets just report the news disinterestedly.

We're supposed to think that government officials mean well.

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David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online (more...)
 
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