ISIS is less a threat to America and it's democracy than your local militarized police and media.

[Fred Sanders]

How many citizens has the entire terrorist work force of the planet killed in the last decade in America?

0.

When I hear the drum beats of war played by the media I hear exactly the same tune beat out by exactly the same drummer on the same worn out instruments.

The war loving mass media, to orchestrate the band, the RW warmongers coming out of the woodwork to sell tickets to the show, and of course the unnamed "senior administration official" to provide the "factual backup".

It is the same song you heard just lately for war in Syria, war in Libya, war in Iran, the same song folks. The same song played before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a catchy tune, no doubt. But surely by now American are sick and tired of the repeated playtime given to this tune? Surely they are now familiar with the mass propaganda having walked this well worn path to economic and societal ruin before?


“I’m worried about Turkey, I’m worried about Jordan, I’m worried about regional destabilization,” said Jarret Brachman, the author of “Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice” and an adviser to the United States government on ISIS and Al Qaeda.

Mr. Brachman said that he did not believe the group had the ability, at the moment, to attack the United States, and that such an attack would bring about an American response so destructive that it would undermine the militants’ goal of territorial expansion."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/us/politics/us-isnt-sure-just-how-much-to-fear-isis.html?_r=0

I think that with a Nobel Peace Prize President at the helm calmly steering the ship of state it will take a much different tune for another American adventure with no end game. Can the mass media orchestrate some other song and dance to get America into what it does best with the largest by far Bandstand of War yet again?

War, endless war. Beautiful, profitable, endless war, now officially America's number 1 export, by the world's number one exporter of weapons of war?

Obama is not Bush, and the warmongers are getting desperate, you can feel it.

[hifiguy]

1. "Can the mass media orchestrate some other song and dance

to get America into what it does best with the largest by far Bandstand of War yet again?"

Of course it can and it will. With little effort. And even if a significant portion the public disagrees, that will have no effect whatsoever and there are more than enough brainless baaing sheep to provide a cover of public "acceptance." They're called the Fox Audience. The Princeton study that has been much discussed at DU is conclusive preferences that the policy preferences exert as much effect on actual policies taken as can be expressed in the smallest non-zero number imaginable.

TPTB will do what they want to do. Period.

[Strelnikov_]

2. Disagree . . . What ISIS represents can bring an end to everything

What they represent? The continuation of the destabilization of the region containing 80% of the worlds remaining oil reserves as a result of our 2003 invasion. Full on Iran/KSA Shia/Sunni proxy war.

The geopolitical impact of the production from this region going dark overnight ('overnight' being say over a year) will probably result in partial economic collapse, and where things go from there, who knows.

That said, what can be done by the US? Quite a bit, but it involves siding with Syria and Iran, and limiting 'boots on the ground' to providing assurance to KSA that we will help protect them from a strengthened Iran. Yea, like any of that's gonna happen.

So, plan B? Reduce our exposure to collapse of this region. Crash programs to reduce petroleum consumption, transition to renewables. Talkin' WWII level here, massive restrictions and command economy for the effected sectors. Yea, like any of that's gonna happen.

So, in the end, people are on their own. Best move people could make right now, transition your life so you can get by on a 10 gal/mo gasoline ration.