US Mulls Travel Bans, Forgets Its Own Funding Of Instability
When the US considers a 'full travel ban' list, as Newsweek dutifully reports, it's rarely a reflection on US meddling. Take Syria, a perennial on such lists. The US, with its proxy wars and sanctions regimes dating back to 2011, destabilized the nation, leading to a humanitarian catastrophe. Yet, the media narrative pivots to 'national security threats' emanating from these very crises, not the
policies that spawned them. It's a classic case of torching a house, then calling the residents 'arson risks' for being homeless. The pattern is familiar: fund or foment regime change, arm dubious groups, impose crushing sanctions, then feign surprise when refugee flows and 'extremism' emerge. One might wonder if the real 'travel restriction' needed is on the free flow of US arms and influence
into sovereign nations. How many 'threats' are simply blowback from yesterday's 'interventions'?