How to Sell Invasions to Americans
Here’s an automated email that I received on January 9th from the neoconservative Foreign Policymagazine’s publicity department, pumping the magazine’s five top stories of that day, all of which suggest that the same U.S. Establishment which had deceived Americans into supporting their country’s invading Iraq, Libya, and other countries that hadn’t ever threatened U.S. national security — that this same Establishment should be restored to power in America now, so as to finish the jobs that Barack Obama and George W. Bush began — to help the poor people who live in the benighted lands whose governments this generous U.S. Government wants to improve, like was done to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and all other countries that the kindly U.S. Government has done so much to help (destroy):
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Subject: Foreign Policy’s Top 5 Reads Today
Date: January 9, 2018 at 9:41:21 AM GMT-5
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Foreign Policy’s Top Reads
01/09/18
If You Thought 2017 Was Bad, Just Wait for 2018
Last year, Trump corroded U.S. foreign policy, but avoided disaster. This year, there are powerful reasons to think that matters will worsen.
BY HAL BRANDS | JANUARY 8, 2018, 2:10 PM
Dancing to Russia’s Tune in Syria
As the United States stands back, the Saudis and even the U.N. special envoy are now open to a greater Russian diplomatic role in shaping the future of Syria.
BY COLUM LYNCH | JANUARY 8, 2018, 10:28 AM
Destroying Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal is still in America’s national interest.
BY EDWARD LUTTWAK | JANUARY 8, 2018, 12:48 PM
How to Break Up Europe’s Axis of Illiberalism
If the EU really wants to punish Poland, it should turn up the pressure on Hungary.
BY SLAWOMIR SIERAKOWSKI | JANUARY 8, 2018, 1:27 PM
China’s War on Poverty Could Hurt the Poor Most
The government is pushing people out of rural squalor — and into urban dependence.
BY EUGENE K. CHOW | JANUARY 8, 2018, 11:45 AM
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