If you ever wondered what "threat inflation" looks like, here's an example
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One of the biggest problems of American foreign policy since the end of the Second World War has been threat inflation, blowing actual threats seriously out of proportion. The notion that a victory by Ho Chi Minh’s Communist guerrillas were a deadly threat to US national security, or that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction” including vials full of anthrax that he could unleash on the United States at any moment, are two classics of the genre. The first was based on a highly ideological and poorly informed view of the world. The latter was mainly deliberate lies concocted to justify the war that Dick Cheney and George W. Bush were determined to wage.
If you ever wondered what "threat inflation" looks like, here's an example
If you ever wondered what "threat inflation…
If you ever wondered what "threat inflation" looks like, here's an example
One of the biggest problems of American foreign policy since the end of the Second World War has been threat inflation, blowing actual threats seriously out of proportion. The notion that a victory by Ho Chi Minh’s Communist guerrillas were a deadly threat to US national security, or that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction” including vials full of anthrax that he could unleash on the United States at any moment, are two classics of the genre. The first was based on a highly ideological and poorly informed view of the world. The latter was mainly deliberate lies concocted to justify the war that Dick Cheney and George W. Bush were determined to wage.