Using one war to distract from another

[Karmadillo]

http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/oped/bal-pe.column06jul06,0,2760802.story

Keep a sharp eye on Liberia, folks.

Not that what happens there is of crucial importance to Americans - any more so than, say, what happens in Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, Zimbabwe or any other African country where life is dangerous, degrading and desperate, and America has done practically nothing about it.

By the time you read this column, U.S. forces might have landed in Liberia and it would be logical for Americans to wonder why - why now? If they haven't landed, but the Bush administration is still talking about the possibility, the same question applies. Why Liberia? Why now? The place has been in a state of bloody chaos for more than a decade.

Could it be that the Bush administration needs a distraction?

The scenario is awfully reminiscent of one that existed almost 20 years ago, when Ronald Reagan was president and George Bush senior was his vice president.

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[jbfam4]

1. I posted this yesterday,

but I think it is important enough for those who missed it to post it again.

[Voltaire]

2. I suspect we are going to Libera

Because of Pat Robertson's diamond mines.

[ameriphile]

3. A different kind of WMD

War: the Bush administration's weapon of mass distraction.