{"id":19291,"date":"2016-03-30T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19291"},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:29:20","slug":"always-attack-the-wrong-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19291","title":{"rendered":"Always Attack the Wrong Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Always Attack the Wrong Country<\/a><\/h3>\n
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There are numerous tactics available to those who aim to make problems worse while pretending to solve them, but misdirection is always a favorite. The reason to want to make problems worse is that problems are profitable\u2014for someone. And the reason to pretend to be solving them is that causing problems, then making them worse, makes those who profit from them look bad.<\/p>\n

In the international arena, this type of misdirection tends to take on a farcical aspect. The ones profiting from the world’s problems are the members of the US foreign policy and military establishments, the defense contractors and the politicians around the world, and especially in the EU, who have been bought off by them. Their tactic of misdirection is conditioned by a certain quirk of the American public, which is that it doesn’t concern itself too much with the rest of the world. The average member of the American public has no idea where various countries are, can’t tell Sweden from Switzerland, thinks that Iran is full of Arabs and can’t distinguish any of the countries that end in -stan. And so a handy trick has evolved, which amounts to the following dictum: \u201cAlways attack the wrong country.\u201d
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\nNeed some examples? After 9\/11, which, according to the official story (which is probably nonsense) was carried out by \u201csuicide bombers\u201d (some of them, amusingly, still alive today) who were mostly from Saudi Arabia, the US chose to retaliate by attacking\u00a0Saudi Arabia<\/s>Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n

When Arab Spring erupted (because a heat wave in Russia drove up wheat prices) the obvious place to concentrate efforts, to avoid a seriously bad outcome for the region, was Egypt\u2014the most populous Arab country and an anchor for the entire region. And so the US and NATO decided to attack\u00a0Egypt<\/s>Libya.<\/div>\n

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Always Attack the Wrong Country Chor Boogie There are numerous tactics available to those who aim to make problems worse while pretending to solve them, but misdirection is always a favorite. The reason to want to make problems worse is that problems are profitable\u2014for someone. And the reason to pretend to be solving them is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,3320,5712,4995,284,326,522,553,694,827,862],"class_list":["post-19291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-10","tag-arab-spring","tag-cluborlov","tag-dimitry-orlov","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-policy","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19292,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions\/19292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}