Would Mandela Oppose The Gaza Protests?
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One of the greatest truisms you will ever hear, is that the biggest casualty of war is truth.
This was true during the Vietnam war, when the real extent of America’s defeat was hidden from the public.
And it was also true in the run-up to, during and the aftermath of the second Iraq war.
We were initially told that there were weapons of mass destruction and when France and Germany chose to use the United Nations to make the case for regime change, the Bush administration abandoned all pretense of acting with propriety and went ahead with the invasion of a sovereign territory and destroyed the fragile peace that the murderous Saddam Hussein had in place for the very longest time.
What happened in the months which followed March 2023, showed the schism between rhetoric and reality.
The police force was disbanded and Iraq’s descent into anarchy was swift with Al-Qaeda and ISIS stepping into the breach.
Iraq, today, is barely recognizable from its hey-day and it is highly unlikely to ever recover from America’s interventionism.
So what’s the point?
Over the course of the last seven months, we have seen the extent to which governments, politicians and the media will…