{"id":207732,"date":"2020-05-24T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T07:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=207732"},"modified":"2020-05-26T06:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T06:39:41","slug":"whoever-is-elected-war-is-the-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=207732","title":{"rendered":"Whoever Is Elected War Is the Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org May 23, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Exceptional America Believes That the Sovereignty of Other Countries Is Impermissible Unless It Serves Washington\u2019s Interests<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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 \u201cforce for good.\u201d This is the Trump regime\u2019s version of the neoconservative doctrine espoused by President Clinton\u2019s Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: \u201cIf 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.\u201d The notion that Iraq was a danger to the US shows imbecility. The inhumanity of Washington\u2019s response to the \u201cdanger\u201d 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 \u201ca very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The neoconservatives, with their preference for <em>war uber alles<\/em> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Philip Giraldi tells us about it: <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/pgiraldi\/leading-neocon-directs-pentagon-middle-east-planning\/\">https:\/\/www.unz.com\/pgiraldi\/leading-neocon-directs-pentagon-middle-east-planning\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What Giraldi forgets to mention is that the \u201cterrorist\u201d groups are Washington\u2019s creations and serve as Washington\u2019s tools to advance the war agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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\u2019s whose FBI and Department of Justice (sic) does not hesitate to frame-up the President of the United States and his National Security Advisor. The extraordinary conflict that Democrats brought to US political life since 2016 exceeds the internal conflict that had to be managed by Iraq\u2019s Hussein and Libya\u2019s Gaddafi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Washington is certainly exceptional, but not in a good way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2020\/05\/23\/whoever-is-elected-war-is-the-policy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the reelection of Donald Trump will be a continuation of the Bill Clinton presidency, the George W. 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