HILLARY, BIBBI'S HAIRY LEGS AND STUPID STUFF
In a revealing interview for the Atlantic, this last week, (Jeffrey Goldberg, August 10, 2014) Mrs. Hillary Clinton, attacked her erstwhile friend and former boss, President Obama, by dissing his careful foreign policy approach ("don't do stupid stuff"). She also pointed a crooked Clintonian finger at the President, claiming that it is Obama's fault that Islamic State (or ISIS) arose in western Syria and expanded into the seeming formidable force now raging through northern Iraq. The hutzpah, and gracelessness of the attack as well as the fact that she had earlier been quoted widely as "fully on board" with Obama's Syria policy make it all the more disturbing and distressing to observe in a likely presidential candidate. But then again this is a "Clinton" we are talking about, past masters of deception, opportunism and calculation.
Equally distressing was her "beyond the pale" remarks on the gruesome and disproportionate attack by Israel on Gaza where Israeli bombardment has killed more than 1800 Palestinians mostly civilians, trapped in what is essentially an outdoor prison camp. Apparently Mrs. Clinton....like her husband...will say or do anything for a buck. In this case she is vying for the bucks of wealthy Americans whose favor she is attempting to curry with her far-out statements of support for the Israeli extreme right...such as the one-issue Sheldon Adelsons of this nation.
On Gaza, Mrs Clinton got so far into bed with with the dour and blood-stained Mr. Netanyahu and his far right Likudnics that--were her husband,Bubba, not so deeply involved with his string of regular squeezes--her bed-jumping might be a cause for jealous spousal rage. In her Gaza remarks Hillary snuggled so close to the Israeli extremists she left no space for a flea, between her and Bibbi's hairy legs. Talk of Hillary being to the right, but these comments put her in the category of Dick Cheney and George Bush. One worry for her supporters might be that she has gone so far into Israeli territory with this interview (she voiced full and vociferous support for every far out Israeli propaganda position, even claiming that the Israelis did not bomb that UN school where so many children were killed....but only its "annex") that she seems better positioned to run for a seat in the Knesset, rather than for US President . I would also add that were I one of her targeted monied supporters, I would be mighty suspect about her sincerity and actual beliefs. She has famously made numerous 180 degree turns...on many issues and has a "complex relationship to the truth" (a well turned phrase attributed to C.C.W. Cooke of National Review). But I guess that is all part of being in the money making racket, and "beneficiaries" of the $200 million dollar Clinton Foundation. We should all recall that as the First Couple, Hill and Bill went into business for themselves by selling sleep-overs in the White House Lincoln bedroom to the highest bidder. Now they have risen to the level where they (and even daughter Chelsea) pull in $200,000 for a short speaking engagement. Not counting the Clinton Foundation coffers, stuffed with hundreds of millions of donation money, their personal wealth has soared into hundreds of millions of dollars.
If Ms Clinton's strategy in this interview was to clearly demarcate herself from the careful and considered FP approach of Mr. Obama..to facilitate her ever-present and overarching goal--a Presidential run..she has over-shot her mark and will lose a vast number of America voters who are tired of the jangling of rowel spurs, and the bulging six-gun in a low-slung-holster-approach to foreign policy. She made the same error in 2002, when as a Senator she positioned herself with Bush and Cheney on the Iraq War Resolution attempting to establish with voters that she was not only smart, but was a street tough too. But street toughs don't solve problems--they do "stupid stuff" that gets them into trouble. That's what she and 77 other US Senators did to push the country into a financial and military disaster. That was then. Our nation is now tired of attempting to solve our problems doing stupid stuff, and wiser too. We learned our lesson. Mrs. Clinton seems still unfazed, mired in the past, unable to see how our perceptions of Israel and old style tough guy foreign policy concepts have changed since the Great Recession, and as smart as she thinks she is, she hasn't learned that elementary lesson from so long ago.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Saturday, August 9, 2014
NEEDED FOR PEACE---BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL
In this last round of brutal, disproportionate attacks on Gaza, Israel has clearly revealed its long term strategy. They give lip service to peace negotiations, but have no incentive to actually make any concessions, that could led to peace. Would you? The have the top hand. Superior military power, control of the levers of opinion and funding, and the protection of America, which supports their policies no matter how far they go astray. The US would actually find some reason to support Israeli polices were they to descend to ethnic cleansing and genocide. Or have they done so already? The latest Gaza round has caused the deaths of more than 1800, Palestinians....almost all civilians...and mostly women, children and the elderly. More than 9,000 were wounded. Mr. Obama's response to this massacre was "Israel has the right to defend itself."
They have the political agenda sewed up. Don't bother writing to your representative or senator, all our politicians are shivering in their boots when it comes to Israel----afraid of being labeled "anti Semites" even if they simply question Israeli propaganda. Our media are also manacled. So there will be no succor from that quarter. There appears to be no recourse for those who would see a more peaceful a more just world...
With the deck stacked against those who seek peace....the only possible means of eliciting change in Israeli leadership is for each of us to use the economic lever we all have at hand in our pocketbooks. We can simply refuse to buy Israeli products. Israel has a vibrant economy almost exclusively based on selling products abroad. They are dependent upon YOU to buy those products. But if we disagree with their policies we can make a choice for a more peaceful, just world. That is a BOYCOTT. Why should we financially support a government which flaunts international law, refuses to negotiate in good faith, engages in creeping confiscation of lands illegally, and periodically descends into military adventures which brutalize and kill innocent civilians and children seemingly without compunction?
If we were all to simply stop purchasing Israeli made products, services, and attending Israeli sponsored events...the global impact would be astounding.
Support peace, demilitarization, and global welfare by simply boycotting Israeli goods, products and services. That would get their attention almost immediately.
They have the political agenda sewed up. Don't bother writing to your representative or senator, all our politicians are shivering in their boots when it comes to Israel----afraid of being labeled "anti Semites" even if they simply question Israeli propaganda. Our media are also manacled. So there will be no succor from that quarter. There appears to be no recourse for those who would see a more peaceful a more just world...
With the deck stacked against those who seek peace....the only possible means of eliciting change in Israeli leadership is for each of us to use the economic lever we all have at hand in our pocketbooks. We can simply refuse to buy Israeli products. Israel has a vibrant economy almost exclusively based on selling products abroad. They are dependent upon YOU to buy those products. But if we disagree with their policies we can make a choice for a more peaceful, just world. That is a BOYCOTT. Why should we financially support a government which flaunts international law, refuses to negotiate in good faith, engages in creeping confiscation of lands illegally, and periodically descends into military adventures which brutalize and kill innocent civilians and children seemingly without compunction?
If we were all to simply stop purchasing Israeli made products, services, and attending Israeli sponsored events...the global impact would be astounding.
Support peace, demilitarization, and global welfare by simply boycotting Israeli goods, products and services. That would get their attention almost immediately.
Friday, August 8, 2014
IRAK REDUX MORE WASHINGTON STUPIDY
MORE STUPIDITY REDUX FROM WASHINGTON REGARDING IRAQ
President Obama has just OK'd bombing missions in northern and western Iraq to support Iraqi and Presmerga (Kurdish) troops which are fleeing from the onslaught of the Islamic State forces.
So many lives could have been saved if President Obama and his neoconservative-holdover advisors from the Bush Administration (as well as his former and failed Secretary of State, who never saw a conflict she didn't want to send some other person's sons and daughters to fight in-- Ms Clinton) had been a bit less gleefully eager to support the fanatic rebels in Syria in their attempt to overthrow Mr. Assad. Mr. Assad who still holds sway in all of western Syria, was weakened and undermined by US INTERVENTIONISM, CIA covert activities, US logistic aid, money, and weapons supplied foolishly by the USA and other state actors urged on by Obama on Syria's eastern border. These narrow and short sighted efforts prolonged the war, and weakened the Assad Regime. The result of this foolish attempt at "regime change" by the USA helped create just another disaster zone, next to the previous disaster zones we created in the Middle East. The geographic result of US interference in Syria and foreign aid to Assad's (and it now turns out our) enemies was the formation of a no-mans land in eastern Syria where the forces of the Islamic State, using US-supplied weapons coalesced and grew into a powerful military force. These IS forces were the same rebel elements some Washington Senators ( John McCain among them) were very recently bellowing for President Obama to support more forcefully with more aid and even more powerful weapons.
But after establishing eastern Syria as their base, the IS, with goals of a regional Islamic Caliphate, moved outward to the east and south into a weakened and fragmented Iraq. Recall that that unfortunate nation was left in a parlous state by the aggression, missteps, lies and foolish polices of a previous US administration, led by an unsophisticated and inexperienced President. Iraq's newly (and less than effectively) USA-trained forces were no match for the well-armed, focused and determined, religious fanaticism of the IS. The IS troops plowed through northern Iraq...gathering up territory, towns, resources, money, abandoned US military materiel, as well as disaffected Sunni soldiers and former Bathist army officers.
So in reality the President is now fighting on the side of Mr. Assad, the man who he was attempting to overthrow and, in the process of that misguided attempt, helped to generate the mess we are now experiencing in that part of the world. But it is unlikely that he would be willing to admit to that.
Do you understand how stupid this all is? Only the militarists, military pundits, and the arms manufacturers are happy---they are all making big profits. The long-suffering American taxpayer, who now lives in a nation with a sick economy and crumbling infrastructure is reluctantly footing the bill, our US airmen are putting their lives in danger on these flights, and the Iraqi and Kurdish people are again suffering horribly. For this disaster we can thank all those US interventionists: G W Bush, Cheney, McCain, Clinton and now Obama too , who think we can solve the world's problems using the muzzle end of a smoking gun. Let us not forget that. They did it! Let us remind them of their stupidity on a regular basis.
It seems whatever the neocons and their supporters touch abroad gets screwed up-----and sadly lots of people die.
Please President Obama, stand up to this scourge of mankind and give us all a break.
.
President Obama has just OK'd bombing missions in northern and western Iraq to support Iraqi and Presmerga (Kurdish) troops which are fleeing from the onslaught of the Islamic State forces.
So many lives could have been saved if President Obama and his neoconservative-holdover advisors from the Bush Administration (as well as his former and failed Secretary of State, who never saw a conflict she didn't want to send some other person's sons and daughters to fight in-- Ms Clinton) had been a bit less gleefully eager to support the fanatic rebels in Syria in their attempt to overthrow Mr. Assad. Mr. Assad who still holds sway in all of western Syria, was weakened and undermined by US INTERVENTIONISM, CIA covert activities, US logistic aid, money, and weapons supplied foolishly by the USA and other state actors urged on by Obama on Syria's eastern border. These narrow and short sighted efforts prolonged the war, and weakened the Assad Regime. The result of this foolish attempt at "regime change" by the USA helped create just another disaster zone, next to the previous disaster zones we created in the Middle East. The geographic result of US interference in Syria and foreign aid to Assad's (and it now turns out our) enemies was the formation of a no-mans land in eastern Syria where the forces of the Islamic State, using US-supplied weapons coalesced and grew into a powerful military force. These IS forces were the same rebel elements some Washington Senators ( John McCain among them) were very recently bellowing for President Obama to support more forcefully with more aid and even more powerful weapons.
But after establishing eastern Syria as their base, the IS, with goals of a regional Islamic Caliphate, moved outward to the east and south into a weakened and fragmented Iraq. Recall that that unfortunate nation was left in a parlous state by the aggression, missteps, lies and foolish polices of a previous US administration, led by an unsophisticated and inexperienced President. Iraq's newly (and less than effectively) USA-trained forces were no match for the well-armed, focused and determined, religious fanaticism of the IS. The IS troops plowed through northern Iraq...gathering up territory, towns, resources, money, abandoned US military materiel, as well as disaffected Sunni soldiers and former Bathist army officers.
So in reality the President is now fighting on the side of Mr. Assad, the man who he was attempting to overthrow and, in the process of that misguided attempt, helped to generate the mess we are now experiencing in that part of the world. But it is unlikely that he would be willing to admit to that.
Do you understand how stupid this all is? Only the militarists, military pundits, and the arms manufacturers are happy---they are all making big profits. The long-suffering American taxpayer, who now lives in a nation with a sick economy and crumbling infrastructure is reluctantly footing the bill, our US airmen are putting their lives in danger on these flights, and the Iraqi and Kurdish people are again suffering horribly. For this disaster we can thank all those US interventionists: G W Bush, Cheney, McCain, Clinton and now Obama too , who think we can solve the world's problems using the muzzle end of a smoking gun. Let us not forget that. They did it! Let us remind them of their stupidity on a regular basis.
It seems whatever the neocons and their supporters touch abroad gets screwed up-----and sadly lots of people die.
Please President Obama, stand up to this scourge of mankind and give us all a break.
.
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