{"id":227635,"date":"2021-02-13T07:19:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T07:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=227635"},"modified":"2021-02-16T07:10:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:10:49","slug":"off-to-a-diverse-start-biden-doubles-down-on-some-bad-policies-and-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=227635","title":{"rendered":"Off To a Diverse Start: Biden Doubles Down on Some Bad Policies and Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Before her appointment to the Pentagon, Dana Stroul had argued against the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Philip Giraldi \u2013 Strategic Review Feb 11, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The prize for the truly awful story of the week goes to the appointment of AIPAC monster to head Pentagon planning for the Middle East.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The extension of the nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the United States and the decision to stop directly supporting the war on Yemen may have been the only good news items to come out of Washington last week. The really bad news came when President Joe Biden warned Russia<\/a> that \u201cthe days of the United States rolling over in the face of Russia\u2019s aggressive actions, interfering with our elections, cyber-attacks, poisoning its citizens, are over.\u201d It was an empty threat full of innuendo that virtually guarantees four more years of Russiagate or something like it. It was an odd statement considering that it has been Washington doing all of the provoking during the Donald Trump administration, much of it instigated by Democrats who are still looking for a scapegoat for the defeat of Hillary in 2016.<\/p>\n

The mainstream media hasn\u2019t been reporting many second-tier stories because of the still playing out double impeachment saga combined with the lingering debate over who actually won the election. Whether Trump personally incited a riot or something worse depends on one\u2019s point of view, but what is really sad to watch is the efforts being made by a \u201cwoke\u201d Democratic Party leadership and a frenzied media to destroy Trump\u2019s life and businesses even though he is no longer in office, a revenge scenario that goes well beyond previous political vendettas. Worse still, the attempts being made to render White House employees and Trump supporters unemployable<\/a> or even try to send them to jail based on convoluted interpretations of legislation reflects a level of vindictiveness not seen since the Catiline Conspiracy in Republican Rome.<\/p>\n

Well, the incident on January 6th<\/sup> wasn\u2019t exactly a replay of the storming of the Bastille, but as it is all we have it will have to make do. Were those folks wandering around inside the Capitol Building tourists who had gotten separated from their tour guide or were they confused citizens from the Dakotas who had a couple of stamps remaining on their hunting licenses allowing them to bag a Democrat or two? They would have been better advised to set up a couple of feeder bait sites under the Rotunda loaded with Benjamins and the Congress-critters would have arrived in droves. And that guy who stole Nancy Pelosi\u2019s podium only had to announce that he was holding a Black Lives Matter meeting and good old Nancy would have arrived tout suite<\/em> on her knees with an African kente<\/em> cloth stole draped around her neck. Alas, we may never know the truth about what actually happened on that fateful day, but the speculation will keep us going for months more.<\/p>\n

There is a definite paucity of actual fact-based news that might make sense to a third grader, particularly given the decline in American public education, which now only teaches about the holocaust and racism. Consequently, I have fallen into the habit of saving links to stories during the week and then deciding on the weekend which are worthy of special recognition for being particularly ridiculous.<\/p>\n

There were some really absurd articles last week. A particularly fascinating story describes what is going on at the Pentagon, which is frantically sneaking more soldiers into Syria and canceling any reduction in force in Afghanistan until the situation stabilizes, a policy move by Biden that reverses one of the few good things that Trump initiated. Unfortunately, the withdrawal from Afghanistan should take another twenty years or so to finish.<\/p>\n

But the really interesting development<\/a> is the new mission of the U.S. Army, which will soon be halting training and other bellicose activity to ease the transition into a full-time military force dedicated to making sure that everyone observes diversity. It is a long overdue move that the entire nation can be proud of, plus the U.S. will as a result be made safer from the Chinese, Iranian and Russian threats. The tricky part is identifying those soldiers who think racist thoughts, even if they never perform a racist act, because they are guilty of not conforming to \u201cwoke world.\u201d They will have to be identified by special trained psychologists before being dishonorably discharged and made unemployable as they are not fit to mix with decent people.<\/p>\n

Paul Kersey reports some of the details, how the<\/a> \u201cPentagon [has ordered] a \u2018stand down\u2019 in [the] next 60 Days\u201d to identify and address the problem of extremists in the military. It should be observed that soldiers who kill civilians are not the extremists in question because killing is what soldiers are supposed to do. It is instead \u201cwhite people in the U.S. Military who display an insufficient loyalty to Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Tolerance. [They] are [the] domestic enemy, and unworthy as individual[s] of defending our nation against the only threat our elite have united to defeat: that, of course, being whiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n

And for those apostatizing white supremacist civilians who don\u2019t want to get left out when the diversity train rolls into their town, the Democratic Party is looking into setting up Truth Commissions<\/a> to make sure that anyone who ever entertained a racist thought or used the \u201cN\u201d word will not be missed.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, an army that really knows what is important is surely great news. It will be an excellent return on the taxpayers\u2019 trillion dollars annual investment, particularly as the Constitution was written by a bunch of slave holders and is no longer worth swearing an oath of allegiance to. But perhaps of more interest to foreign policy wonks is what is going on in some of the other Pentagon offices dedicated to finding new enemies so there will always be a supply of wars to fight after everyone in Afghanistan and Syria is exterminated.<\/p>\n

As telling other nations how to behave backed up by the 101st<\/sup> Airborne division has become a wonderful indoor board game in this age of Coronavirus-19, my favorite article for the past week has to be the news that Honest Joe Biden has appointed yet another Zionist harpy to his team of war planners in an apparent attempt to keep Nuland, Sherman, Haines, Rice, Power and Neuberger company. Her name is Dana Stroul and she will be running<\/a> the Pentagon\u2019s Middle East Desk, making her the senior policy official focused on that region. Indications are that her eagle eye will be fixed on those major malefactors Iran and Syria.<\/p>\n

Stroul has been whisked away from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), where she has been the Shelly and Michael Kassen Fellow in the Institute\u2019s Beth and David Geduld Program on Arab Politics. WINEP is the think tank founded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in an attempt to demonstrate that hatred of all of Israel\u2019s enemies in the Middle East is somehow an American vital interest, so it is perhaps odd to consider that the organization would even allow Arabs to have politics. Stroul had worked at the Pentagon and had also co-chaired the Syria Study Group set up by Congress prior to landing at WINEP.<\/p>\n

Stroul, who believes that<\/a> there is a threat to the U.S. from \u201cIranian nuclear ambitions and support for terrorist groups throughout the region,\u201d also has had some interesting ideas about what should be done to Syria, some of which was laid out in a final report<\/a> that was presented to Congress in September 2019 by the Syria Study Group.<\/p>\n

The report states that \u201cFrom the conflict\u2019s beginning in 2011 as a peaceful domestic uprising, experts warned that President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s brutal response was likely to have serious, negative impacts on U.S. interests. Given Syria\u2019s central location in the Middle East, its ruling regime\u2019s ties to terrorist groups and to Iran, and the incompatibility of Assad\u2019s authoritarian rule with the aspirations of the Syrian people, many worried about the conflict spilling over Syria\u2019s borders\u2026 The threats the conflict in Syria poses\u2014of terrorism directed against the United States and its allies and partners; of an empowered Iran; of an aggrandized Russia; of large numbers of refugees, displaced persons, and other forms of humanitarian catastrophe; and of the erosion of international norms of war and the Western commitment to them\u2014are sufficiently serious to merit a determined response from the United States. The United States and its allies retain tools to address those threats and the leverage to promote outcomes that are better for American interests than those that would prevail in the absence of U.S. engagement. The United States underestimated Russia\u2019s ability to use Syria as an arena for regional influence. Russia\u2019s intervention, beginning in 2015, accomplished its proximate aim\u2014the preservation of the regime in defiance of U.S. calls for Assad to \u2018go\u2019\u2014at a relatively low cost. Russia has enhanced its profile and prestige more broadly in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

One immediately notes the incoherence of the argument being made. To make U.S. presence in Syria palpable to the long-suffering American public, it is necessary to attempt to establish a threat against the United States even though in this case there is none. And the repeated citation of \u201cinterests\u201d without credibly explaining what interests might compel invading and occupying a foreign country is completely lacking in any detail. Stroul also several times cites the heavy terrorist threat, ignoring the fact that the existing terrorists are being sustained by Israel and by the United States, while President Bashar al-Assad has the overwhelming support of most of the Syrian people. Reports are that Syrians are returning home after a refugee crisis caused by the United States and its allies. And we all know that the last refuge of a scoundrel is to play the Russian card, which Stroul does, as well as surfacing that perennial demon Iran. U.S. support of Israeli bombing attacks are also just fine in her opinion, even though they are a clear violation of the \u201cinternational norms of war\u201d that she pretends to defend.<\/p>\n

Stroul inevitably supports U.S. retention<\/a> and what she curiously refers to as \u201cownership\u201d of the one third of Syria that is \u201cresource rich.\u201d That includes the Syrian oil producing region now occupied by U.S. troops as well as by what she euphemizes as \u201cSyrian Democratic Forces.\u201d She observes that it also includes the country\u2019s best agricultural land, which, if denied to the government in Damascus, could be used as leverage to bring about regime change. Starving Syrians are not Stroul\u2019s concern so she consequently opposes any form of international relief or reconstruction funding for the Syrian people and supports U.S. pressure on international lenders through the worldwide banking system to deny Damascus any money to rebuild.<\/p>\n

So, the prize for the truly awful story of the week goes to the appointment of this monster daughter of AIPAC to head Pentagon planning for the Middle East, joining a sterling cast of characters at State Department and in the intelligence community. Also, if one includes the account of a diversified U.S. Army where soldiers will now be encouraged to snitch on each other over privately held views, one has to ask \u201cCan it get any worse?\u201d Judging from Joe Biden\u2019s list of appointments so far, it will, yes it will.<\/p>\n

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