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The selective blindness of US liberals is more than mere hypocrisy
The deeply embedded bi-polarity of the US political system obstructs analysis of the rise of Donald Trump, says ZOLTAN ZIGEDY

HOW can it happen that an unpopular right-wing US president can, in effect, call to end seven years of an undeclared war against the government of Syria, a UN member nation, inducing most of the liberal establishment to recoil and challenge the prospect of peace?

How is it that a marine general who earned the sobriquets “Mad Dog” and “the butcher of Fallujah” can be canonised by large sectors of the left as a role model for reasoned sobriety and judgement?

How can US left icon Noam Chomsky, often an outspoken opponent of US aggression, oppose the removal of US troops from Syria when the troops have no legitimate role in that country?

Rather than address the collapse of legitimacy, US rulers choose the road of sleazy opportunism

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