Sleight of Hand

Karen Kwiatkowski on Chaos Theory and Card Games for Neocons:

The great minds behind the trample of Iraq are looking for the next big diversion, and it could be the stomping of Syria. We can’t waste time thinking about where we have been, either 20 years ago or yesterday, places like Kabul or Baghdad, such a mess, just not photogenic or fun anymore. It’s on to a new scene, the next eye-grabbing trailer. It’s all about entertainment anyway. The great minds are constantly working for us the viewer, to keep us munching the popcorn and shushing the guys sitting next to us so we can enjoy the movie.

From the well-staged briefings in the new CENTCOM theater, to the excited and on-the-team reporters, pleasantly rumpled and doe-eyed from another night in bed with the troops, to the deck of cards we are now shuffling with the Iraqi 55 most wanted, it’s all about fun. Please pay no attention to the ragged civilians or our tattered Constitution ailing in the background.

By the way, Kwiatkowski is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) with significant Pentagon experience. Clearly, with those credentials she's about as anti-American as they come. Or some such nonsensical rant that the pro-war crowd likes to spew.

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