Hagel departure victory for war party
The war party is celebrating the abrupt departure of Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary. They never forgave him for disavowing his vote in favor on the Iraq war, and for rightly stating he was a senator from America, not Israel. His replacement, Ash Carter, former No. 2 at Defense, suits them just fine. Carter is a hawk, arguably to the right of President Obama. The president needs to burnish his war mongering credentials with the likes of ...America's premier warmonger, Sen. John McCain, who takes over as Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the Republican controlled Senate next month.
The president as already tried to pre-empt McCain and his bloodthirsty Senate pals Lindsay Graham and Mark Kirk, by adding more canon fodder to Iraq and secretly authorizing our canon fodder in Afghanistan to conduct night raids next year, contrary to his longstanding pledge to end all American fighting December 31st.
Trillions wasted, millions of lives disrupted, hundreds of thousands dead or broken in body and mind, and total failure in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia, Palestine and Ukraine is not enough to discourage the war party from their life's mission feeding their bloodlust. Obama is smart enough to know the truth about our failed war policies, and clearly would prefer peace. But he's either too scared or too weak to resist the real power in Washington. He'll never share that truth with the American public. He doesn't need to. We are completely removed from any influence to avert these blood curdling disasters. As long as the spiking economy keeps the middle class distracted with toys and material bliss, the war party can function in a moral vacuum.
The 2016 election does not bode well for the world and the cause of peace. Every GOP wannabe is a dedicated warmonger. Even Rand Paul, who made peace noises early on, has got the message: promote war or take a hike. He's introduced a resolution to declare war on ISIS, a group largely inspired and armed through our failed, criminal Iraq war. The leading Democrat, Hillary Clinton, is adding neocons to her advisory board faster that you can say "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran." She's clearly failing up from her disastrous gig as Secretary of State. But in America, that is called success.
With all the neocons and war lovers ruling Washington, poor Chuck Hagel, a voice of sanity, never had a chance.
Trillions wasted, millions of lives disrupted, hundreds of thousands dead or broken in body and mind, and total failure in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia, Palestine and Ukraine is not enough to discourage the war party from their life's mission feeding their bloodlust. Obama is smart enough to know the truth about our failed war policies, and clearly would prefer peace. But he's either too scared or too weak to resist the real power in Washington. He'll never share that truth with the American public. He doesn't need to. We are completely removed from any influence to avert these blood curdling disasters. As long as the spiking economy keeps the middle class distracted with toys and material bliss, the war party can function in a moral vacuum.
The 2016 election does not bode well for the world and the cause of peace. Every GOP wannabe is a dedicated warmonger. Even Rand Paul, who made peace noises early on, has got the message: promote war or take a hike. He's introduced a resolution to declare war on ISIS, a group largely inspired and armed through our failed, criminal Iraq war. The leading Democrat, Hillary Clinton, is adding neocons to her advisory board faster that you can say "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran." She's clearly failing up from her disastrous gig as Secretary of State. But in America, that is called success.
With all the neocons and war lovers ruling Washington, poor Chuck Hagel, a voice of sanity, never had a chance.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 10:33 AM
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