Norman Solomon Antony Blinken’s lofty rhetoric about “rules” and “rights” is emptier than ever after Biden’s illegal attack on Yemen. Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s a grimly laughable premise, but the nation’s major media outlets routinely take such claims seriously and credulously. Overall, the default assumption is that top officials in Washington are reluctant to go to war, and do so only as a last resort. That framing was in evidence when the New York Times published this sentence at the…
