We keep hearing how divided the public is, as if we arrived in this situation in a normal and natural way. Why is no one considering that our own government is working hard to keep us divided?

You people are so selfish. All you want is to end a pointless war after merely 20 years, and tens of thousands of innocent civilians being murdered.
But have you given even a thought about the wants and needs of the CIA, you selfish bastards?
No! Our murderous spies are people too, and they don't want to leave and you can't make them.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is no radical leftist by any definition. Personally I think he's a center-leftist at the most. But right-wing capitalists hate his guts just the same.

Caught in a rip-tide and being dragged further out to sea, Mr. Brennan has hit the rocks and lost his ship. Floating with him, a hapless group of CIA and NSC Cold Warriors, all in way over their heads.

Having torn the sheets and smashed the hull, they bob in the waves. Lost is the wars they started far off over the horizon. Ukraine, Syria, who is to blame? Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, too.