Here is what occurred to me immediately: this asshole ran the CIA when Benghazi happened. As far as we can tell Doherty and Woods worked for him, and Sean Smith likely reported in some fashion to him. So too did virtually all the several dozen other people who were there, who were attacked, some of whom were wounded, and NONE of whom has spoken to Congress as far as I know.
Here is a simple thesis: Petraeus backed the Syrian false flag operation personally, as well as as a result of orders. His mission was to get second rate Libyan chemical weapons in the hands of Syrian jihadists, and train them in their use, so that Obama could pursue a strategic objective of destabilizing Syria, and eventually toppling Assad. He now continues to support that policy, likely due to ego involvement.
He let those people die, because spooks exist in a realm of plausible deniability, and sometimes you let agents die for some murky greater good. We have all seen spy movies. Spies and soldiers are treated with a different morality.
On a related note,I have never in my lifetime seen the pervasiveness of the propaganda apparatus which exists in this country shown in such stark relief. Even though some of the columns on his site are in my view nuts, much of what Alex Jones has been saying for years now appears plausible to me.
As far as the cult members, the headless ones, the indoctrinated ones, take the example of Ed Asner: even though he theoretically opposes war in the abstract, Obama’s ethnicity is quite literally the only criteria that matters.
I have argued often that the Left MUST be understood not just a different understanding of the facts, but a fundamentally different mode of being, one characterized not by principle-based engagement with reality with a goal to improving the world; but one characterized by the submergence of the duty of perceiving things as a sovereign entity, a sovereign intellect and self, to the duty of conformity. Whatever you are told to do, you do. Your captivity is your freedom.
Thus we see left wingers using virtually the same rhetoric right wingers used in the lead-up to the war with Iraq, with the important difference that the war with Iraq was at least plausibly in our national interest, and the war with Syria is categorically CONTRARY to our national interests. We are intervening on behalf of our enemies, risking a more general war, all for NOTHING. The killing will not stop, and to the extent the weapons appear to have been used by the “rebels”, WE ARE ATTACKING THE WRONG SIDE.
Everything is upside down. Rational discussion is out the window, and this fact is on prominent display.
Oi. Rant over for now. I will likely return.