MB Civic

Glenn ..

it is striking how wars — no matter how they’re packaged — ultimately breed the same patterns. With public opinion split or even against the war in Libya (at least for now) — and with questions naturally arising about why we’re intervening here to stop the violence but ignoring the growing violence from our good friends in Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere — the administration obviously knows that some good, old-fashioned fear-mongering and unique demonization (Gadaffi is a Terrorist with “deadly mustard gas” who might attack us!!) can only help. Then there’s the fact that the same faction of war-loving-from-a-safe-distance “hawks” that took the lead in cheering for the attack on Iraq — neocons on the Right and their “liberal interventionist” counterparts in The New Republic/Brookings/Democratic Party officialdom world — are playing the same role here. And many of the same manipulative rhetorical tactics are now wielded against war opponents

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