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It cites a Quinnipiac University poll released last week showing nearly 70 percent of respondents believe the Islamic States poses a direct threat to the United States.
“As economic worries gradually subside, concern about terrorism is on the rise. The survey finds that terrorism now trails only the economy on the list of top public priorities,” Brooking notes.
Remarkably, if the Quinnipiac University numbers can be believed, a majority of Americans want to send U.S. combat troops to Iraq and Syria to battle ISIS.
These sentiments translate into broad support for much more assertive policies. The Quinnipiac survey found that by a stunning margin of 62 to 30 percent, the American people now support sending U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria. That figure includes majorities of Democrats and Independents as well as Republicans, women as well as men, and young adults as well as seniors. And 68 percent are “very confident” or “somewhat confident” that the United States and its allies can defeat ISIS.
Brookings is a foundation supported by the Rockefellers, the Ford Foundation (in other words, the CIA), bankers (Goldman, Sachs & Co., Citigroup Foundation, and J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation) and the war merchants (Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin).
It is rather poignant how easily crude and transparently fake propaganda turned a war weary nation around — that is, again, if we can trust the results of the Quinnipiac survey and other corporate polls.
Strictly avoided by the corporate media as it hypes the supposed threat to Americans by ISIS is the group’s obvious manufactured nature.
“In the wake of 9/11 US news media seldom asked about the origins of Al Qaeda — particularly how it was a product of US intelligence agencies,” writes Prof. James F. Tracy. “With the history of Al Qaeda omitted, the Bush administration was permitted to wage war on Afghanistan almost immediately following those staged attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
“Yet as is much the case with today’s manufactured ISIS phenomenon, that history was readily available, and its careful public examination might have implicated the United States intelligence community in the 9/11 attacks.”
Media Lens, in examining the “comic book simplicity of propaganda,” notes that the massive campaign in favor of an ISIS war has diverted “attention away from uncomfortable truths.”
One such truth cited by Brookings is the economy. The establishment scholars at Brookings insist that the economic worries of the American people are gradually subsiding, presumably in response to yet another massive propaganda campaign — one promoting the narrative that the economy is recovering.
In fact, the world faces the prospect of a financial crash of historical proportion.
“Anyone with even a minimal amount of intelligence should be able to see the massive financial bubbles that the central banks of the world have created, and anyone with even a minimal amount of intelligence should be able to see that we are heading for a massive financial implosion which will be extraordinarily painful,” writes Michael Snyder.
Snyder believes the American public as been “zombified” by dangerous propaganda.
“Instead of thinking for themselves, they let ‘the matrix’ do their thinking for them. And right now ‘the matrix’ is telling them that everything is going to be just fine in 2015.”
This same zombification process is at work in the effort to turn the war on terror into a forever war that serves the needs of the military industrial complex, its associated banks and other related corporations, and the geopolitical objectives of the global elite.
Insider think tanks fueled by corporate and bankster dollars tell us ISIS is a dire threat to the homeland when it obviously is not. So far, the only “terrorists” apprehended in America pledging allegiance to ISIS were created by the FBI and the Justice Department.
55 Comments on "Most Americans Favor Invading Syria and Iraq"
Apneaman on Tue, 10th Mar 2015 2:58 pm
Oh no! it’s repeating it’s thoughtless thoughts.
PeterEV on Tue, 10th Mar 2015 9:44 pm
Hi Plant,
We are not directly in the fight with major boots on the grounds. We are supporting various factions fighting ISIS. The president is asking Congress for major commitment authorization to fight ISIS directly.
My comment basically is that our past planning has been dismal and ISIS is one of those results.
An interesting movie to view is: “Charlie Wilson’s War”. It supports my supposition that our planning has been dismal. This movie should be viewed by adults as there is some nudity, strong language, drug usage, violence, and it’s based on fact.
Go Speed Racer. on Tue, 10th Mar 2015 10:46 pm
I think Plant has improved since the early days. He does not deserve that chat board insult. Keep it mellow. If u want to insult something, insult the fatso’s shopping at Wal mart spending their food stamps on cigarettes and monster drinks.
GregT on Wed, 11th Mar 2015 12:30 am
“I think Plant has improved since the early days.”
Yah? Maybe he’s finally reaching puberty.
Northwest Resident on Wed, 11th Mar 2015 1:44 am
I’ve been exposed to Plant’s frequent and persistently obnoxious idiocy for more than a year now. I haven’t seen any improvement. He has his moments of clarity, I suppose, and from time to time he seems to “lay low”, where he’ll go a day or two just making short non-controversial comments. It never lasts for long though. Soon enough, he’s BACK, being the same insulting and obnoxious troll that we all know and despise. Some people reach a point in life where they realize that no matter how hard they try, people will always hate them, and for good reason, so they determine to stop playing Mr. Nice Guy and just go full retard on the lousy creep that they truly are. It seems to me that Plant is one of those.
Human defects like Plant only exist because we still live in a world of excess and relative plenty, fueled by the energy derived from oil. In a tribal or small community based social structure, the Plants of the world would never be tolerated. He’d have to shape up, or ship out. But on the internet, he can just let it all hang out, and he does.