Bernie Sanders vs. the world

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How the political & media elite are trying to set him up to fail


After Saturday night's debate, it's more evident than ever that the senator from Vermont isn't getting a fair shake
by DANIEL DENVIR

David Muir, setting up the first in an endless stream of questions about terrorism in Saturday evening’s Democratic primary debate, of which he was moderator, reminded Americans that it was “just six days before Christmas, as we all know in this country. It’s typically a joyful time, as it is this year, as well. But it’s also an anxious time.”

The question at hand was not the age-old one of war or peace, or even, for that matter, the war on Christmas. After all, as Muir noted, Americans are united by their knowledge that it’s almost Christmas. The critical uncertainty, rather, is what kind of war this country, which has been ceaselessly at war for 14 years, should fight.

“I’m going to ask the secretary [Clinton] here, because there does appear to be some daylight here between the policies, at least in respect to when you take out Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,” said Muir. “Right now or do you wait? Do you tackle ISIS first?”

More than a decade ago, media credulity fomented in the jingoistic afterglow of 9/11 made the case for the U.S. invading Iraq. In one notably toxic New York Times article, Michael R. Gordon and Judy Miller reported that Saddam Hussein had sought to obtain aluminum tubes that American officials— and anonymous ones at that—believed were meant to enrich uranium, ominously warning that “the first sign of a ‘smoking gun,’ they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.”

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http://www.salon.com/2015/12/21/bernie_sanders_vs_the_world_how_the_political_media_elite_are_trying_to_set_him_up_to_fail/

[Fantastic Anarchist]

1. Sanders, like so many of us in 2001 and 2002 ...

Will be relegated as right, after the next disaster is implemented. It will be an after-thought, though, when they do declare us as right, and then they'll say, "This time it's different."

Wash, rinse, repeat.