Let’s You and Him Fight | James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust

March 3, 2014

So, now we are threatening to start World War III because Russia is trying to control the chaos in a failed state on its border -- a state that our own government spooks provoked into failure?

The last time I checked, there was a list of countries that the USA had sent troops, armed ships, and aircraft into recently, and for reasons similar to Russia’s in Crimea: the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, none of them even anywhere close to American soil. I don’t remember Russia threatening confrontations with the USA over these adventures.

The phones at the White House and the congressional offices ought to be ringing off the hook with angry U.S. citizens objecting to the posturing of our elected officials. There ought to be crowds with bobbing placards in Farragut Square reminding the occupant of 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue how ridiculous this makes us look.

The saber-rattlers at The New York Times were sounding like the promoters of a World Wrestling Federation stunt Monday morning when they said in a Page One story:

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1. Anybody who thinks the US

is going to war with Russia over the Crimea is an idiot.

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2. Well, we didn't go into Somalia most recently

We goaded Nigeria into doing it for us and merely provided air support with unmarked CIA airplanes. While Nigerian and Somali soldiers were killing each other with weapons provided by us and at out instigation, we had the gall to call upon them to "show restraint."