Reply #8: The Politics of Paranoia is built upon a False Paradigm. It is fundamentally delusional ideation

[L. Coyote]

at the core. If you have a false assumption as a core belief, all else must fit within the framework your falsehood engenders. Well enough when you look in the mirror and say, "Damn, I look good." Not a mental posture suited to international relations. Add an inability to perceive the shades of grey between black and white .... and information becomes dumbed down to simplistic lies.

For those not sharing the false paradigm, we need to ask what underlies "demonizing countries in the middle east" and Iran in particular. This is one aspect, an underlying cause of falsehoods. There is another. False information, like the WMDs in Iraq, was used to justify unlawful actions. You can't parade out a crime in American politics. You have to diligently paint over public actions, like starting a war, with a layer of propaganda to justify them. The "justification" lies are not premised in false paradigm, albeit the skewed assumptions may justify the deception. Justify means make just. A false justification rationalizes or just sells or "advertises" actions that would not be supported if the truth were known. Once on this path, disinformation can become ever more necessary to maintain the falsehood after contravening facts accumulate.

I've been saying one thing all along, the "Iran Scare" is obfuscation of the Iraq situation. Now the Iran false flag, DANGER, is flying at 1/4 mast today, but all the while it was hoisted it served that purpose, obfuscation and distraction, as well as justification for the surge and a continued presence even. If the plan was to avert discussion of the latter, a continued presence, the exposition of the lie may swing that pendulum like never before, and force that debate.

Ironically, the lie may now also overthrow the false paradigms once and for all.