Mr. President: How about sanctioning the neocons?

America's chest thumping protests and silly sanctions against Russia for protecting its national interests in Crimea from a US-EU engineered coup in Ukraine would be laughable if they weren't so dangerous. Mainstream Media might totally erase this coup of a democratically elected Ukraine government from the narrative, but decent Americans shouldn't if they want the US to withdraw from the precipice of a wholly manufactured and unnecessary crisis. Just like we lobbied for years to overthrow the duly elected government of Syria by encouraging and funding rebels seeking its overthrow while pretending Syrian President Assad was solely responsible for civil war atrocities, America hides its duplicity exasperating the Ukraine crisis so it can demonize Russia for doing what the US would do in a heartbeat if Russia interfered in our backyard.

Instead of sanctioning Russia, the president should sanction the neocons at the National Endowment for Democracy, (NED) which functions as a shadow governmental agency to undermine foreign governments Uncle Sam doesn't like. The NED was created in 1983 by President Reagan to advance Reagan's Cold War aims, and though now totally obsolete, continues to get $100 million yearly to entice Russia's neighbors to join the West and turn against Russia. They do this by claiming to promote "democracy" which is anything but. The NED, with Obama administration approval, stirred up the pro West, anti-Russian folks in the Ukraine to thwart an economic deal the duly elected Ukraine president was about to conclude with Russia which led to the illegal coup. Just six months before the coup, NED president Carl Gershman, blatantly opined in the neocon run Washington Post that "Ukraine is the biggest prize" and has backed up that assertion by funding 65 "pro democracy" projects there.

The majority of Americans don't want the US to restart the Cold War, give billion dollar loan guarantees to Russia's neighbors when that money is needed right here to rebuild a crumbling America, and demonize a Russian leader who helped us avert war with both Syria and Iran. The President should listen to the people and common sense in cancelling NED's $100 million dollar New Cold War Slush Fund. On a personal level he should cancel the presidential subscription to the Washington Post.