So you heard about the drone over Crimea?
Here's Tucker's open tonight.
Here's Kim Iversen with Dmitry Polyansky.
Here are two shorts with Judge and Doug. All from today.
Here's a full segment with Judge and Doug, also from today.
Here's the Duran’s Alex and Alexander.
Some clips also provide insight into what they're doing over at MSNBC.
Totally unreal.
Two Steps Back
But try taking two steps back. Two steps and just over one hundred years.
The 1910s. The 'America First' movement begins with the presidential campaign of Woodrow Wilson. Wilson is anti-war, as most people are today, as most people always are.
Wilson creates the 'America First' movement to stop involvement in the coming European war.
Yet, by 1918, only two years later, Wilson, now as president, is not only engaging the US in the war, but he's also sending US troops to - Russia?
(Did they teach you that in school? Perhaps you weren't in school that day. Perhaps your teacher wasn't in school that day either. But the Smithsonian remembers.)
Then we have the famous Gulf (Kuwait) war led by HW. Some of you may have seen the video clip of HW getting off the helicopter at the White House, still clutching the communique in his hand as he's met by reporters. Saddam's just gone over into Kuwait. And HW declares, with a confident smirk, 'guys, I think we can sell this one to the American people'.
Sure he could.
As revealed later by the WikiLeaks Public Library of US Diplomacy, a huge tranche of millions of documents that no one in the national archives thought could ever be made searchable, Saddam, a salaried CIA asset, was growing increasingly frustrated by the Kuwaitis, and so he more or less asked Washington's permission to invade, this by a dispatch sent from the US embassy in Baghdad to Washington. Washington replied, again as revealed in the WikiLeaks documents, that the US had no interest or opinion either way. So go ahead, in other words, was their message.
Saddam went ahead. HW caught him in the trap.
Be on your guard. The John McCains and Lindsey Grahams and Sean Hannitys and Morning Joes and Morning Mikas and even the weekend cleaning lady at CNN will stomp for war at every opportunity, and they can perhaps be silenced by voices of reason such as Kim and Tucker and Doug and the Judge, but it's another matter entirely when the good people you trusted with your vote begin the trek to the swamp. Keep an eye on them, and keep after them.