The old adage still holds true: watch what they do, not what they say. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
Their information interests require them to be the good guy, but their strategic interests require them to be the bad guy.
One of the weirdest things happening in the world today is the way US officials keep insisting that they are not at war with the groups they’re dropping bombs on in the middle east, and that they do not seek conflict with the people they are attacking.
Shortly after another massive round of attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen, Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder told reporters on Monday that the US is not at war with the group.
“We don’t seek an escalation with the Houthis. We’re not at war with the Houthis. We’re not seeking to go to war with the Houthis,” Ryder said.
The day before, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told CNN’s State of the Union that “the United States also is not looking for a wider war in the middle east,” even as he refused to rule out direct attacks within Iran, and even as the US-backed war on Gaza has expanded to US bombing campaigns in Yemen, Syria and Iraq.
It sounds like a Babylon Bee headline!
“At the end of medicine is dope;at the end of life is death;at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind.
Norman Mailer