I understand the US also gave Helen of Troy acne.

Somewhere , somehow , someone has lost the Plot.

It's not me ...

Let us hope that if a WW111 breaks out anywhere, that we all die together,including those that create war, let no one escape.

I know I really shouldn't read John Pilger's articles, but I own to being fascinated. Each offering from Pilger looks more and more like it could have been written by Alex Jones. Pilger has gone so far down the rabbit hole, that he has come out in China.

Dick mentions the "war on terror' as being against an unidentifiable foe "whereby anybody or any group can be deemed a "terrorist" by anyone"

That is Pilgerian dross; just for your information Dick since you have now identified yourself across a couple of threads as being a nuisance, the war on terror is against Muslim jihadists, who differ from other Muslims only to the extent they are active. In other words the "war on terror" is a phony war because it is still at the pretend stage where nuisances like you not only think it is not against Islam but only some Muslims instead of all of them.

@cohenite, what wonderful mind-reading skills you DON'T have. I didn't say anything about "Muslims" nor Israel for that matter, only that the "war on terror" is ambiguous, making it, as you said, a "phony" war. But it's global. And it suggests a hidden agenda that we can all speculate on. So the only dross here, is your inability to read the minds of others, as you feebly attempted to do.

Remarkable how much aggression exists in this forum...it says a lot, none of it positive.