The Mindlessness is Total
Are You Ready for Nuclear War?
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Pervez Musharraf, the puppet installed by the US to rule Pakistan in the
interest of US hegemony, resigned August 18 to avoid impeachment. Karl Rove
and the Diebold electronic voting machines were unable to control the result of
the last election in Pakistan, the result of which gave Pakistanis a bigger
voice in their government than Americas.
It was obvious to anyone with any sense -- which excludes the entire Bush
Regime and almost all of the foreign policy community -- that the illegal and
gratuitous US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Israels 2006 bombing of
Lebanon civilians with US blessing, would result in the overthrow of Americas
Pakistani puppet.
The imbecilic Bush Regime ensured Musharrafs overthrow by pressuring their
puppet to conduct military operations against tribesmen in Pakistani border
areas, whose loyalties were to fellow Muslims and not to American hegemony.
When Musharrafs military operations didnt produce the desired result, the
idiotic Americans began conducting their own military operations within
Pakistan with bombs and missiles. This finished off Musharraf.
When the Bush Regime began its wars in the Middle East, I predicted, correctly,
that Musharraf would be one victim. The American puppets in Egypt and Jordan
may be the next to go.
Back during the Nixon years, my Ph.D. dissertation chairman, Warren Nutter, was
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. One day in
his Pentagon office I asked him how the US government got foreign governments
to do what the US wanted. Money, he replied.
You mean foreign aid? I asked.
No, he replied, we just buy the leaders with money.
It wasnt a policy he had implemented. He inherited it and, although the
policy rankled with him, he could do nothing about it. Nutter believed in
persuasion and that if you could not persuade people, you did not have a policy.
Nutter did not mean merely third world potentates were bought. He meant the
leaders of England, France, Germany, Italy, all the allies everywhere were
bought and paid for.
They were allies because they were paid. Consider Tony Blair. Blairs own
head of British intelligence told him that the Americans were fabricating the
evidence to justify their already planned attack on Iraq. This was fine with
Blair, and you can see why, with his multi-million dollar payoff once he was
out of office.
The American-educated thug, Saakashkvili the War Criminal, who is president of
Georgia, was installed by the US taxpayer funded National Endowment for
Democracy, a neocon operation whose purpose is to ring Russia with US military
bases, so that America can exert hegemony over Russia.
Every agreement that President Reagan made with Mikhail Gorbachev has been
broken by Reagans successors. Reagans was the last American government whose
foreign policy was not made by the Israeli-allied neoconservatives. During the
Reagan years, the neocons made several runs at it, but each ended in disaster
for Reagan, and he eventually drove them from his government.
Even the anti-Soviet Committee on the Present Danger regarded the neocons as
dangerous lunatics. I remember the meeting when a member tried to bring
the neocons into the committee, and old line American establishment
representatives, such as former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, hit the roof.
The Committee on the Present Danger regarded the neocons as crazy people who
would get America into a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The neocons hated
President Reagan, because he ended the cold war with diplomacy, when they
desired a military victory over the Soviet Union.
Deprived of this, the neocons now want victory over Russia.
Today, Reagan is gone. The Republican Establishment is gone. There are no
conservative power centers, only neoconservative power centers closely allied
with Israel, which uses the billions of dollars funneled into Israeli coffers
by US taxpayers to influence US elections and foreign policy.
The Republican candidate for president is a warmonger. There are no checks
remaining in the Republican Party on the neocons proclivity for war. What
Republican constituencies oppose war? Can anyone name one?
The Democrats are not much better, but they have some constituencies that are
not enamored of war in order to establish US world hegemony. The Rapture
Evangelicals, who fervently desire Armageddon, are not Democrats; nor are the
brainwashed Brownshirts desperate to vent their frustrations by striking at
someone, somewhere, anywhere.
I get emails from these Brownshirts and attest that their hate-filled ignorance
is extraordinary. They are all Republicans, and yet they think they are
conservatives. They have no idea who I am, but since I criticize the Bush
Regime and Americas belligerent foreign policy, they think I am a liberal
commie pinko.
The only literate sentence this legion of fools has ever managed is: If you
hate America so much, why dont you move to Cuba!
Such is the current state of a Reagan political appointee in todays Republican
Party. He is a liberal commie pinko who should move to Cuba.
The Republicans will get us into more wars. Indeed, they live for war. McCain
is preaching war for 100 years. For these warmongers, it is like cheering for
your home team. Win at all costs. They get a vicarious pleasure out of war.
If the US has to tell lies in order to attack countries, whats wrong with
that?
If we dont kill them over there, they will kill us over here.
The mindlessness is total.
Nothing real issues from the American press, which is about demonizing Russia
and Iran, about the vice presidential choices as if it matters, about whether
Obama being on vacation let McCain score too many points.
The mindlessness of the news reflects the mindlessness of the government, for
which it is a spokesperson.
The American media do not serve American democracy or American interests. They
serve the few people who exercise power.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the US and Israel made a run at controlling
Russia and the former constituent parts of its empire. For awhile the US and
Israel succeeded, but Putin put a stop to it.
Recognizing that the US had no intention of keeping any of the agreements it
had made with Gorbachev, Putin directed the Russian military budget to
upgrading the Russian nuclear deterrent. Consequently, the Russian army and
air force lack the smart weapons and electronics of the US military.
When the Russian army went into Georgia to rescue the Russians in South Ossetia
from the destruction being inflicted upon them by the American puppet
Saakashvili, the Russians made it clear that if they were opposed by American
troops with smart weapons, they would deal with the threat with tactical
nuclear weapons.
The Americans were the first to announce preemptive nuclear attack as their
permissible war doctrine. Now the Russians have announced the tactical use of
nuclear weapons as their response to American smart weapons.
It is obvious that American foreign policy, with its goal of ringing Russia
with US military bases, is leading directly to nuclear war. Every American
needs to realize this fact. The US governments insane hegemonic foreign policy
is a direct threat to life on the planet.
Russia has made no threats against America. The post-Soviet Russian government
has sought to cooperate with the US and Europe. Russia has made it clear over
and over that it is prepared to obey international law and treaties. It is the
Americans who have thrown international law and treaties into the trash can,
not the Russians.
In order to keep the billions of dollars in profits flowing to its contributors
in the US military-security complex, the Bush Regime has rekindled the cold
war. As American living standards decline and the prospects for university
graduates deteriorate, our leaders in Washington commit us to a hundred years
of war.
If you desire to be poor, oppressed, and eventually vaporized in a nuclear war,
vote Republican.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial
page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny
of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://counterpunch.org/
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