US Establishment ‘To Go to the Mat’ to Prevent Trump’s Détente With Russia
SputnikNews.com
13.01.2017
US policy-makers have long been obsessed with scapegoating, pinning the blame on the Russians, the Chinese or Muslims for their own problems. The intelligence report on Russia’s alleged meddling in US presidential election is yet another example of this disturbing trend.
The US needs to get rid of its bad “scapegoating” habit, American columnist and essayist Patrick Lawrence notes in his latest opinion piece for The Nation, commenting on the US intelligence report on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“The joint report presented last week by James Clapper, Michael Rogers, John Brennan, and James Comey is so devoid of substance even The New York Times seems to take half a step back,” the US columnist wrote.
“It [the report] amounts to 25 pages of the cotton-wool language official obfuscators always deploy when making something of nothing,” Lawrence remarked.
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