{"id":29596,"date":"2018-01-10T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29596"},"modified":"2018-01-10T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T19:06:08","slug":"how-to-sell-invasions-to-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29596","title":{"rendered":"How to Sell Invasions to Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Sell Invasions to Americans<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Here\u2019s an automated email that I received on January 9th from the neoconservative Foreign Policy<\/i>magazine\u2019s publicity department, pumping the magazine\u2019s five top stories of that day, all of which suggest that the same U.S. Establishment which had deceived Americans into supporting their country\u2019s invading Iraq, Libya, and other countries that hadn\u2019t ever threatened U.S. national security \u2014 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 \u2014 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):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subject: Foreign Policy\u2019s Top 5 Reads Today<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Date: <\/b>January 9, 2018 at 9:41:21 AM GMT-5<\/span><\/p>\n

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Foreign Policy\u2019s Top Reads<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

01\/09\/18<\/span><\/p>\n

If You Thought 2017 Was Bad, Just Wait for 2018<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, Trump corroded U.S. foreign policy, but avoided disaster. This year, there are powerful reasons to think that matters will worsen.<\/span><\/p>\n

BY HAL BRANDS | JANUARY 8, 2018, 2:10 PM<\/span><\/p>\n

Dancing to Russia\u2019s Tune in Syria<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

BY COLUM LYNCH | JANUARY 8, 2018, 10:28 AM<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Time to Bomb North Korea<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Destroying Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear arsenal is still in America\u2019s national interest.<\/span><\/p>\n

BY EDWARD LUTTWAK | JANUARY 8, 2018, 12:48 PM<\/span><\/p>\n

How to Break Up Europe\u2019s Axis of Illiberalism<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

If the EU really wants to punish Poland, it should turn up the pressure on Hungary.<\/span><\/p>\n

BY SLAWOMIR SIERAKOWSKI | JANUARY 8, 2018, 1:27 PM<\/span><\/p>\n

China\u2019s War on Poverty Could Hurt the Poor Most<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The government is pushing people out of rural squalor \u2014 and into urban dependence.<\/span><\/p>\n

BY EUGENE K. CHOW | JANUARY 8, 2018, 11:45 AM<\/span><\/p>\n

BOOKERS & PRODUCERS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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