One week ago, President Obama in a speech at West Point sought to portray his escalation of the war in Afghanistan as the prelude to an early withdrawal of US troops. It has since become increasingly apparent that the speech was nothing more than a calculated exercise in public deception.
The speech was crafted to chloroform the public, the better to defy and disorient mass popular opposition to the war.
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