{"id":54730,"date":"2021-08-24T09:45:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54730"},"modified":"2021-08-24T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:45:55","slug":"the-evil-that-men-do-lives-after-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54730","title":{"rendered":"The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BIG><EM>How about some accountability for Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen?<\/EM><\/BIG><\/p>\n<p><em>By Philip Giraldi<br \/>\nAugust 24, 2021 &#8211; <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/pgiraldi\/the-evil-that-men-do-lives-after-them\/\">unz.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/pgiraldi\/the-evil-that-men-do-lives-after-them\/\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/uswarship.jpg' width='150' height='113' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='US War Ship' \/><\/a>If you want to know how the United States wound up with \u201cgovernment by stupid\u201d one need only look no farther than some of the recent propaganda put out by members of Congress, senior military officers and a certain former president. President George W. Bush, who started the whole sequence of events that have culminated in the disaster that is Afghanistan, is not yet in prison, but one can always hope.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRegarding the current crisis, former FBI special agent and 9\/11 whistleblower Coleen Rowley cited Richard W. Behan who mused over \u201cHow perverse we have become. We chastise President Biden for a messy ending of the war in Afghanistan and fail to indict George Bush for its illegal beginning.\u201d She then observed, in her own words on Facebook, \u201cSo Rehabilitated War Criminal Bush can maintain his legacy as stalwart statesman as he cutely dances with Ellen DeGeneris and Michelle Obama on television screens. Washington is just a big fact-free political show where the blame game winners are the best manipulators.\u201d<br \/>\n<em><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/pgiraldi\/the-evil-that-men-do-lives-after-them\/\">Full Article : unz.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about some accountability for Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen? By Philip Giraldi August 24, 2021 &#8211; unz.com If you want to know how the United States wound up with \u201cgovernment by stupid\u201d one need only look no farther than some of the recent propaganda put out by members of Congress, senior military officers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54730\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1427,1,5,39],"tags":[85,42],"class_list":["post-54730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-general-tt","category-international","category-usa","tag-abuse","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54731,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54730\/revisions\/54731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}