Obama’s Gulf of Tonkin
The parallels are striking, and instructive: in both cases, the government constructed a completely made up story in order to pursue a preordained path to war. Just as there was no attack on any US ship in the Tonkin gulf, so there was no attempted Taliban plot to blow up Times Square – just another American nut who went postal. And this time, too, the media is falling down on the job, refusing to question what increasingly looks like a crude fabrication.
