Having been lied into war in Iraq in 2003, the American public swore it had wised up. But in Europe, where the United States had extensive military alliance commitments under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the U.S. population should ostensibly have been more informed and less prone to beguiling, it has been disappointing to see the American public once again so easily led down the path to supporting a war that never had to be—never would have been—but for the policies enacted by our government.