It took 2 Presidential elections and millions and millions of man hours from tens of millions of people, but we finally ended 2 long and costly wars. The Taliban are dug into caves again, and for good measure we killed Osama Bin Laden and all but eliminated Al Qaeda.
The American "Shit Your Pants Brigade" (SYPB), led by FOX news and the ever apoplectic screeching righties, were instantly and unexpectently left with nothing to shit their pants over. They suddenly found themselves with nothing to scare the sheeple into shitting their pants over. They were alas left standing naked in their own version of hell on earth: an America not at war. Fear being their primary weapon of mass distraction, they were momentarily left without the reins of real power they have grown so accustomed to.
WE ARE NOT AT WAR! Get used to it.
I for one have never and will never accept that we are at war with Terrorism or Terrorists. And don't even try to draw me into accepting a made up war on against Global Islamic or Muslim Jihadists. Terrorism is real to be sure and people are dying every day all over the world because of it. Cigarettes kill more people than US based terrorism but we manage to find a way to be ok with that and no wars have been declared as a result. Here in Amerika we have enjoyed relative calm and comfort in our day to day lives. Unless you count all the fear mongering and collective pants shitting.
Cue a new front in the "war on terrorism": ISIS
Recently we were conveniently yet out of nowhere introduced to a seemingly ominous and powerful force of evil. A well armed and trained force brewed, no doubt in some caldron of religious and American hating bile. And just like that, the SYPB and Fox News are right back in business. I don't buy it. Someone created this beast and set it loose on "us" and more to the point the poor miserable lot who have the misfortune of living over "there". And this version of "America Hating Muslims" on earth has all the needed hallmarks of real EVIL. They hate America and they kill Christians. Truth be told these fuckers really are Evil incarnate. But who created them and made it possible for them to become the force they are today?
Who benefits?
Who had the motive for a group like this to come into it's own? Who put up the money? Who writes the scripts? It's all too god to be true.
I'm no expert on these things but I do watch a lot of TV, and I know a plot build up when I see one in real time. We are being played people. The question is by whom, why and how, and to what end. I for one think the puppeteers behind the SYPB are partially to blame but I also think some omni-present regional player is the enabling force from which most of this has been made possible and to whom the outcome is intended to largely benefit. Ayyone come to mind?