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Whoever Is Elected, War Is the Policy

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Exceptional America Believes That the Sovereignty of Other Countries Is Impermissible Unless It Serves Washington's Interests

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells us that despite the record of destroying in whole or part eight countries in recent years, the US is a "force for good." This is the Trump regime's version of the neoconservative doctrine espoused by President Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: "If we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us." The notion that Iraq was a danger to the US shows imbecility. The inhumanity of Washington's response to the "danger" was sanctions that resulted in the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children. When asked on national television if a half million dead children achieved a justified purpose, the heartless Albright said that it was "a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it."

The neoconservatives, with their preference for war uber alles are running the Trump regime. It appears that the reelection of Donald Trump will be a continuation of the Bill Clinton presidency, the George W. Bush presidency, and the Obama presidency. Whoever is elected, War is the policy.

Philip Giraldi tells us about it.

What Giraldi forgets to mention is that the "terrorist" groups are Washington's creations and serve as Washington's tools to advance the war agenda.

Giraldi gives away too much when he characterizes the Hussein and Gaddafi governments as dictatorships. Authority was centralized, as it is in Washington, but the governments had to balance contending forces in the societies and were dependent on a large element of consent. It is not certain that both countries were ruled any worse than the US, a country's whose FBI and Department of Justice (sic) does not hesitate to frame-up the President of the United States and his National Security Adviser. The extraordinary conflict that Democrats brought to US political life since 2016 exceeds the internal conflict that had to be managed by Iraq's Hussein and Libya's Gaddafi.

Washington is certainly exceptional, but not in a good way.

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Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administration. He was associate editor and columnist with the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He is a contributing editor to Gerald Celente's Trends Journal. He has had numerous university appointments. His books, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is available (more...)
 

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