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Propaganda’s Triumph by BEN SCHREINER #war #tyranny #imperialism

Wolin the political theorist has written:    War-Weariness can be overcome with staggering haste.  Fear always breeds hostility.

Fear and a couple of beheadings such crimes were exactly what the war hawks in Washington needed to bring the American people around.  Indeed, for a culture obsessed with the cult of positive thinking, there is always a bright side, even to a beheading.

One wonders what future historians of the American empire will make of the ease with which American elites have been able to repeatedly soothe the rattled American psyche through the delivery of carefully packaged images of American bombs blowing faceless, pixelated figures to bits.