The Definition Of Truth Has Changed In The Age Of Trump

Two
years after the 9.11 incident in 2003, the words “end game” were on everybody’s
daily used words. Now, 17 years later the world has been forcefully
acknowledging that the Western war on Iraq and Afghanistan has still not ended.

The unlawful
assassination of the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani is not part of a “new”
war on Iran - it is the continuation of an “old” war on Iraq and an ancient
invasion of the middle east by the western powers.

However,
tricking the public into believing that there may be a “new war” with Iran
allows the United States to avoid reckoning with the Iraqi proofs of their
illegal irresponsibility, insincerity, and savagery. Seeking a new
confrontation with Iran is essentially the egregious historical continuation of
Washington’s multi-century policy of, invading the next Indian tribe.

But the story
doesn’t end here.

Every American
agrees on the fact that the Vietnam War changed the very essence of American
democracy. Certainly, Soleimani’s assassination is the most shocking terror act
in many years, and thus it fundamentally changes and enhances the way the Iraq
War is tailoring the very nature of American democracy.

If World War II
to many Americans genuinely was all about fighting against fascism and white
supremacy, the Vietnam war certainly was not.

The nationwide
rejection of this fanatically ideological war ultimately only produced a
cultural revolution in every aspect of American society. But, there was no
political revolution because there was no will among the Washington political
elite and no reform of institutions that had proven to lack a democratic
direction.

However, if
Vietnam resulted in the public’s open and persistent rejection to believe their
government’s lies, the Iraq War will prove to have been when the ordinary
people keep this same rational skepticism.

The Iraq War
led the way to a new culture of lying for America, where the American people
knew they were devouring fake news, and the news outlets knew that their
listeners knew their claims were falsehoods, but there was an untold collective
consensus to keep spreading the fake news by any means.

This is the way
which led to the situation where a hero like Gen. Soleimani - who had bravely
and unequivocally fought the terrorists in Iraq and Syria is publicly accused
of being a “terrorist” by the terrorist state of America.

In the Vietnam
era, the American people said “en masse” that they don’t believe bullshit like
this, but the Iraq War has shaken the very foundations of American democracy.
Most Americans say they believe the fake news but they are scared of confessing
they don’t.

To claim that
the American public truly believes the endless stream of fake news after 9/11
is to take for granted that Americans are either fool or mentally retarded, and
neither is the case: people know they are poorly governed but they fear they
don’t have the means to stand against the injustice of their leaders.

Therefore, just
as they were tricked into supporting a war with Iraq in 2003 even though it was
based on fake news, the Washington elite and US Deep State are fixing their
eyes on starting a war with Iran based on more absurd lies, such as the illegal
assassination of an international hero under the pretext of being a
“terrorist”.

Nowadays,
citizens of the world know America’s modern discourse: The Washington swamp
creatures defines a terrorist as “someone who defies the will of Washington elites
and Wall Street moguls. So it doesn’t matter if you’re an Iranian, Iraqi, a
freelance journalist like Julian Assange, or whistleblower like Edward Snowden
- oppose US neo-imperialism and neoliberalism and you will be targeted as a threat
to Americans.

Certainly,
the ordinary people of the US realize this obvious theme to this pejorative,
absurdly fake news against an internationally admired figure, but after all, we
saw in 2020, can we expect the truth from the American public anymore