You might think 16 deaths as payback for three Americans killed by Iraqi militants would be more than enough, but you would be wrong. There will be many more.

I've been railing against the US war machine for around seven years now, and never during that time have I had more westerners on my side than right now. Never has the depravity of the western empire been more starkly exposed in the cold light of day.

Usually perceiving the monstrousness of US foreign policy requires some knowledge and understanding, some background and context, and I've had to spend my time providing that so readers could see what I'm seeing. Now it's just a deluge of massacred children appearing right on people's social media feeds, with the US president proudly acknowledging that he's backing it and bombing countries throughout the middle east to help it continue.

There's not really any way for the imperial propagandists to spin that as anything other than what it is. They try (my god do they try), but not enough people are buying it. Too many people are looking right at the emperor's shriveled nutsack in the cold morning air and saying "Hey wait a second, this bitch is ass dick naked!"

Everyone who opposes the US war machine has that one moment that snapped their eyes open, where they realized the media are lying to them and they've been cheering for the imperial stormtroopers this entire time. Syria. Libya. Iraq. Vietnam. There's always something. And in terms of freshly opened eyes, this moment in history may wind up leaving the rest far behind.