Trib Editorial Board warmongering hiding behind Chapman's sanity

The Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman quite rightly faulted President Obama's failure to truly end our Middle East wars in his June 9 op ed 'Obama prolongs unwinnable wars'. So good was Chapman's analysis it was picked up by www.antiwar.com, the Holy Grail of anti war news and opinion.

But nowhere in Chapman's piece is that some of the blame for both starting and prolonging these criminal excursions in mass death goes to the Chicago Tribune's Editorial Board, which Chapman has participated in since 1981. Sadly, in those 35 years, Chapman's influence on the Board's support for endless war and American exceptionalism has been zero. They were all in for our senseless and lost war in Afghanistan. They were all in for our senseless and lost war in Iraq. They loved the Libyan intervention where "We came, we saw, he died" referring to the gruesome execution of Libyan President Qaddafi, one of thousands whose blood is on US hands. The Board argued mightily against rapprochement with Iran and helped foment new Cold War with Russia over Ukraine by supporting US involvement in the February, 2014, coup, unraveling that sorrowful land and prompting Russia to protect their backside.

The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board is a board member of the neocon war party. Every so often they let Chapman loose to tell truths they will never reveal to placate the folks who still buy the Trib hoping for some sanity in their coverage of America's death spiral.