Friday, February 20, 2015

Obama’s terror summit: An exercise in hypocrisy, falsification and self-delusion - World Socialist Web Site

Obama’s terror summit: An exercise in hypocrisy, falsification and self-delusion - World Socialist Web Site

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Tim Nolan said...

President Barack Obama, on both Wednesday and Thursday, addressed sessions of a summit on “countering violent extremism” convened in Washington and attended by representatives of 65 countries.

While repeatedly insisting on the need to talk “squarely and honestly” about “root causes” of terrorism, the American president’s remarks amounted to a string of barely coherent banalities—including quotations from a Valentine’s Day card from a 12-year-old—all aimed at covering up the incontrovertible causal connection between terrorism and the chain of catastrophes unleashed by US wars of aggression over the past decade.