Yeah, we're at a crucial moment, where the political system is serving very well what we might call the “warfare state,” and we're in a part of the spin cycle for war where the messages come out conflating the policy of the President with supporting the troops. So we have these sort of preposterous, yet accepted, media messages from people, such as Nancy Pelosi and others in Congress, that even though they say they oppose the war and want it to end, they refuse to stop paying for it. They refuse to stop funneling billions every week from the US Treasury to subsidize the slaughter, the sending and the deployment and the maintenance of US troops and armaments to kill and be killed. And the message is that, well, we've got our military forces in the field, so we can't stop paying for them. Well, that's a perpetual argument for more war and against withdrawal from a war based on absolute deception.
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