*Washington Has Been At War For 16 Years: Why?*
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Washington Has Been At War For 16 Years: Why?
Paul Craig Roberts
For sixteen years the US has been at war in the Middle East and North
Africa, running up trillions of dollars in expenses, committing untold war
crimes, and sending millions of war refugees to burden Europe, while
simultaneously claiming that Washington cannot afford its Social Security
and Medicare obligations or to fund a national health service like every
civilized country has.
Considering the enormous social needs that cannot be met because of the
massive cost of these orchestrated wars, one would think that the American
people would be asking questions about the purpose of these wars. What is
being achieved at such enormous costs? Domestic needs are neglected so that
the military/security complex can grow fat on war profits.
The lack of curiousity on the part of the American people, the media, and
Congress about the purpose of these wars, which have been proven to be
based entirely on lies, is extraordinary. What explains this conspiracy of
silence, this amazing disinterest in the squandering of money and lives?
Most Americans seem to vaguely accept these orchestrated wars as the
government’s response to 9/11. This adds to the mystery as it is a fact
that Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Iran (Iran not yet
attacked except with threats and sanctions) had nothing to do with 9/11.
But these countries have Muslim populations, and the Bush regime and
presstitute media succeeded in associating 9/11 with Muslims in general.
Perhaps if Americans and their “representatives” in Congress understood
what the wars are about, they would rouse themselves to make objections.
So, I will tell you what Washington’s war on Syria and Washington’s
intended war on Iran are about. Ready?
There are three reasons for Washington’s war, not America’s war as
Washington is not America, on Syria. The first reason has to do with the
profits of the military/security complex.
The military/security complex is a combination of powerful private and
governmental interests that need a threat to justify an annual budget that
exceeds the GDP of many countries. War gives this combination of private
and governmental interests a justification for its massive budget, a budget
whose burden falls on American taxpayers whose real median family income
has not risen for a couple of decades while their debt burden to support
their living standard has risen.
The second reason has to do with the Neoconservative ideology of American
world hegemony. According to the Neoconservatives, who most certainly are
not conservative of any description, the collapse of communism and
socialism means that History has chosen “Democratic Capitalism,” which is
neither democratic nor capitalist, as the World’s Socio-Economic-Political
system and it is Washington’s responsibility to impose Americanism on the
entire world. Countries such as Russia, China, Syria, and Iran, who reject
American hegemony must be destabilized and desroyed as they stand in the
way of American unilateralism.
The Third reason has to do with Israel’s need for the water resources of
Southern Lebanon. Twice Israel has sent the vaunted Israeli Army to occupy
Southern Lebanon, and twice the vaunted Israeli Army was driven out by
Hezbollah, a militia supported by Syria and Iran.
To be frank, Israel is using America to eliminate the Syrian and Iranian
governments that provide military and economic support to Hezbollah. If
Hezbollah’s suppliers can be eliminated by the Americans, Israel’s army can
steal Southern Lebanon, just as it has stolen Palestine and parts of Syria.
Here are the facts: For 16 years the insouciant American population has
permitted a corrupt government in Washington to squander trillions of
dollars needed domestically but instead allocated to the profits of the
military/security complex, to the service of the Neoconservative ideology
of US world hegemony, and to the service of Israel.
Clearly, Amerian democracy is a fraud. It serves everyone but Americans.
What is the likely consequence of the US government serving non-American
interests?
The best positive outcome is poverty for the 99 percent. The worst outcome
is nuclear armageddon.
Washington’s service to the military/security complex, to the
Neoconservative ideology, and to Israel completely neglects over-powering
facts.
Israel’s interest to overthrow Syria and Iran is totally inconsistant with
Russia’s interest to prevent the import of jihadism into the Russian
Federation and Central Asia. Therefore, Israel has put the US into direct
military conflict with Russia.
The US military/security complex’s financial interests to surround Russia
with missile sites is inconsistent with Russian sovereignty as is the
Neoconservatives’ emphasis on US world hegemony.
President Trump does not control Washington. Washington is controlled by
the military/security complex (watch on youtube President Eisenhower’s
description of the military/security complex as a threat to American
democracy), by the Israel Lobby, and by the Neoconservatives. These three
organized interest groups have pre-empted the Amercan people, who are
powerless and are uninvolved in the decisions about their future.
Every US Representative and US Senator who stood up to Israel was defeated
by Israel in their re-election campaign. This is the reason that when
Israel wants something it passes both houses of Congress unanimously. As
Admiral Tom Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations and Chariman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, said publicly, “No American President can stand up to
Israel.” Israel gets what it wants no matter what the consequences are for
America.
Adm. Moorer was right. The US gives Israel every year enough money to
purchase our government. And Israel does purchase our government. The US
government is far more accountable to Israel than to the American people.
The votes of the House and Senate prove this.
Unable to stand up to tiny Israel, Washington thinks it can buffalo Russia
and China. For Washington to continue to provoke Russia and China is a sign
of insantity. In the place of intelligence we see hubris and arrogance, the
hallmarks of fools.
What Planet Earth, and the creatures thereon, need more than anything is
leaders in the West who are intelligent, who have a moral conscience, who
respect truth, and who are are capable of understanding the limits to their
power.
But the Western World has no such people.
