[rayiner]

That article is propaganda from the same people who brought you the Iraq War. That’s exactly the sort of funding spigot we should be stopping so we can figure out what the hell is going on. Why the hell are we paying for prison guards in Syria? At one point CIA backed militias in Syria were fighting DOD backed militias: https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-...

Everyone obviously wants to use critical services as a shield to avoid scrutiny on them. But by all indications the administration was ready to go on day 1, and insofar as stuff is being cut or halted a decision was made to allow that to happen.

[tptacek]

I don't know what was going on with Syria, sounds real bad, but your claim about the administration having clear plans they're executing from day 1 is clearly false. This is sourced reporting, not analysis:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/omb-whi...

[philistine]

So the LA Times is not part of the propaganda that brought us the Iraq War? And the US must, must at all cost, stop paying for prison guards to figure it out?

There's no other way to just ... figure it out? You know, by studying the situation?

[rayiner]

I’m begging you to read Manufacturing Consent.

And when has “studying the situation” ever worked to make the government stop wasting money destroying the Middle East? Obama promised to change this stuff, and he couldn’t do it, because he innately trusted the same people who made the mistakes to “study” how to fix them.

[philistine]

I can't believe you agree with the premise of Manufacturing Consent and the goals of the administration.

They're manufacturing consent to a massive power grab from Congress. The consent to an American King is being manufactured in front of our very eyes.