US creating ‘ready-made enemies’ to instill fear in citizens
US elected officials are creating “ready-made enemies” and false crises around the world in order to instill fear in the American public and gain their support for their interventionist foreign policy, a writer and researcher in Florida says.
“We base this on history and recurring themes such as always having a ready-made enemy so that human livestock managers can instill fear in their population so they seek protection from these perceived enemies from their political leadership,” said Walt Peretto.
“It’s an old game of create crisis, then offer solution and then reel in the support of their populations, it’s called Hegelian dialectics and it’s as old as civilization itself,” Peretto said Saturday during a phone interview with Press TV.
Peretto said US Senator Lindsey Graham is “playing” the same game by instilling fear among Americans from the perceived threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group.
Graham has long called for deploying more US troops to the Middle East to fight ISIL.
During a recent interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation”, he said 10,000 American “boots on the ground" are required in each of Syria and Iraq to stop ISIL from launching an attack on the United States.
“Senator Graham, an elected leader from the United States is a pawn in this game of chess and he is playing his role on cue,” Peretto added.
“The international endgame here remains to destabilize Syria enough to seriously agitate for regime change,” he noted.
US President Barack Obama has requested $8.8 billion to fund the fight against the ISIL terrorist group in his fiscal 2016 budget.
The funds are part of the White House's $58 billion request to fight foreign wars, officially known as Overseas Contingency Operations.
AHT/HRJ
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