War

Trying to save his job from the people who want Obama to fire him for lying to Congress, Clapper claims Syria is a hotbed of terrorists who want to attack the US. Those are the same terrorists Obama has been arming for several years. This is the tried and true claim to get Americans to allow another war.

Japan's ruler wants to gear up for war with China.

"Asked whether, given his analogy, he would consider deescalating tensions with China at the moment, Abe evidently said no, not as long as that country continues to build up its military."

I don't understand blaming Japan for this. China seems to be the aggressor between the two.

"Given a rising anti-Japanese nationalism in China, a growing regional arms race, and increasingly aggressive Chinese claims to islands near energy-rich deposits in regional seas, this might seem to be a moment to calm the waters, so to speak. But not for the Obama administration, which recently welcomed Abe’s decision to put more money into new weaponry for the Japanese military. To this world of rising tensions Washington has, in recent years, added a much ballyhooed new focus on Asia, a “pivot” or “rebalancing” to the region. Its emphasis has clearly been on heightening tensions by organizing a string of countries against a rising China, triggering old Cold War-era Chinese fears of encirclement (or “containment,” as it was called in those days)."

The US should stay out of it.

For warmongers, it's always WWII. Too bad they don't realize WWII was The Unnecessary War.