With his recent "stay in Syria forever" speech at the Hoover
Institution, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has entered neocon
territory. Tillerson’s language echoes
the language used against Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi. The US always
resorts to holier-than-thou language like this when it wants to justify
the empire’s presence in some place that has nothing to do with American
security. The world is not a pretty place everywhere, not even in parts
of the Americas that I’ll refrain from naming; but some are close to
the White House. This doesn’t justify a costly US presence that, in any
event, is very likely not only to fail but also to produce a worse
situation.
