Michael Brand
Nov 4 · 1 min read

To those who sputter angrily at Trump’s very limited pullback in Syria, I ask “Why did we go into Syria in the first place?” Not surprisingly, few can give a correct or even coherent answer. Brings home how easily the public can be led into one morass after another.

PS: the other commenter mentioned it, but Catlin makes the same arguments on war, money and politics as Charles Hugh Smith. Both have helped me view the world with a different set of eyeglasses.

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