Whenever anyone does anything substantive toward peace, there is almost invariably a charge that people are behaving as did Neville Chamberlain when he cut a deal with Hitler. However, criticism from war hawks shouldn't be taken too seriously given their stunning array of failures with one country after the other destabilised and every intention of doing it to more.
Afghanistan - They said they were going to get bin Laden. The country is now a bomber's paradise with skyrocketing heroin exports and the US military now apparently committed until 2024. Well done.
Pakistan - Relentless drone strikes have created a terrorist recruiting bonanza and another country on the verge of civil war.
Iraq - Bombed all to hell for no better reason than American governmental caprice. Now it's yet another bomber's paradise.
Libya - America did business with Gadafi for forty years and then decided to kill him. Now it's in chaos.
Egypt - America supported the 'Arab Spring' as if it were another Woodstock. The logic that supporting the Muslim Brotherhood was a good idea is something they must have pulled out of a goldfish bowl in a fortune teller's parlour.
Syria - Yet another country that was going to be bombed into wreckage but this time America was thwarted by something the U.S. government really hates: common sense.
The nuclear agreement reached in Geneva breaks a stalemate that has existed for some years. Cuba has withstood America's bullying for decades and never folded so it shouldn't have been a surprise that Iran could do it too. But now there's a signed deal to the apparent satisfaction of all. Obviously Israel isn't satisfied but that country is just as afflicted with phoney exceptionalism as the U.S.
Since Netanyahu has been shooting his mouth off just as stupidly as Ahmadinjad had been doing, I guess one concern is if Israel decides to take a shot at Iran anyway. He's already shooting off his mouth about the agreement but that fool has been more determined to prove his inadequacy in statecraft than be much of a leader.
The most stunning aspect of all this, to me, is the way the war hawks hang onto their programs of interference in other governments because they say 'this is necessary to be a world power.' Well, no, as you can hear from the German comedians in another article, they thank America for bombing Iraq because that made America more hated than Germany. The war hawks hang onto their beliefs like tetanus-afflicted animals without the slightest recognition or concern about their repeated failures.
Those same war hawks say they do such wonderful things for America and maybe some of those incredibly-expensive wonderful things will even fly. The F-22 just barely flies. The F-35 is nowhere near operational. And now they are talking of a new generation of fighters with laser weapons. Lockheed Martin is in-process of building a drone aircraft that will fly even faster than the SR71. If there's a budgetary constraint in the U.S. you sure couldn't tell it from the way the Offense Department behaves. They couldn't behave more like spendthrifts if they were drunken cheerleaders with someone else's credit card.
It is my firm contention that the war hawks are doing more to destroy America than terrorists ever could. Their relentless determination to bankrupt the economy through production of military equipment hasn't produced anything of any real value except tools they can use to manipulate foreign governments. Aid packages to other countries are frequently military supplies as if this will do anything whatever to help that country climb up to the level of the major powers.
There's lots of heroics in the news about the deal but it really doesn't impress me. My only reaction is that it's about damn time. Peace for our time? Why the hell not!
Afghanistan - They said they were going to get bin Laden. The country is now a bomber's paradise with skyrocketing heroin exports and the US military now apparently committed until 2024. Well done.
Pakistan - Relentless drone strikes have created a terrorist recruiting bonanza and another country on the verge of civil war.
Iraq - Bombed all to hell for no better reason than American governmental caprice. Now it's yet another bomber's paradise.
Libya - America did business with Gadafi for forty years and then decided to kill him. Now it's in chaos.
Egypt - America supported the 'Arab Spring' as if it were another Woodstock. The logic that supporting the Muslim Brotherhood was a good idea is something they must have pulled out of a goldfish bowl in a fortune teller's parlour.
Syria - Yet another country that was going to be bombed into wreckage but this time America was thwarted by something the U.S. government really hates: common sense.
The nuclear agreement reached in Geneva breaks a stalemate that has existed for some years. Cuba has withstood America's bullying for decades and never folded so it shouldn't have been a surprise that Iran could do it too. But now there's a signed deal to the apparent satisfaction of all. Obviously Israel isn't satisfied but that country is just as afflicted with phoney exceptionalism as the U.S.
Since Netanyahu has been shooting his mouth off just as stupidly as Ahmadinjad had been doing, I guess one concern is if Israel decides to take a shot at Iran anyway. He's already shooting off his mouth about the agreement but that fool has been more determined to prove his inadequacy in statecraft than be much of a leader.
The most stunning aspect of all this, to me, is the way the war hawks hang onto their programs of interference in other governments because they say 'this is necessary to be a world power.' Well, no, as you can hear from the German comedians in another article, they thank America for bombing Iraq because that made America more hated than Germany. The war hawks hang onto their beliefs like tetanus-afflicted animals without the slightest recognition or concern about their repeated failures.
Those same war hawks say they do such wonderful things for America and maybe some of those incredibly-expensive wonderful things will even fly. The F-22 just barely flies. The F-35 is nowhere near operational. And now they are talking of a new generation of fighters with laser weapons. Lockheed Martin is in-process of building a drone aircraft that will fly even faster than the SR71. If there's a budgetary constraint in the U.S. you sure couldn't tell it from the way the Offense Department behaves. They couldn't behave more like spendthrifts if they were drunken cheerleaders with someone else's credit card.
It is my firm contention that the war hawks are doing more to destroy America than terrorists ever could. Their relentless determination to bankrupt the economy through production of military equipment hasn't produced anything of any real value except tools they can use to manipulate foreign governments. Aid packages to other countries are frequently military supplies as if this will do anything whatever to help that country climb up to the level of the major powers.
There's lots of heroics in the news about the deal but it really doesn't impress me. My only reaction is that it's about damn time. Peace for our time? Why the hell not!
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