It important to remember that the lies told around the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan were not outliers. This is how the US Government operates and IS operating. Keep that in mind when they claim a need to contain China or Russia or the need for an Africom or a US presence in South Korea and Japan.
They create all these frictions between nations based on lies and then use those lies to justify more Militarism and more fascism. The Democrats do it just as much as the Republicans.