The corporate media in the United States is now calling for re-intervention in Iraq following the success of a former al-Qaeda affiliate in taking over the northwestern part of the country. CNN, forever a trusty asset of the Pentagon and the War Party, is floating the prospect of airstrikes:

The New York Times, fulfilling its role as a primary conduit for war propaganda (as it did during the previous illegal invasion), is providing the information required to set the stage for humanitarian intervention, a term now routinely used by Democrats and liberals to make mass murder palatable to a war weary public. The usual front for this is the United Nations:

U.N. Warns of Rights Abuses and Hundreds Dead in Iraq Fighting

The top human rights official at the United Nations expressed "extreme alarm" over extrajudicial killings, rape and the shelling of civilians.