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Stephen Walt Confuses Marketing Claims With Products
I admire Stephen Walt for his work exposing the Israel Lobby in the United States and I do like his general realist position. But this is some serious claptrap nonsense not worth the electrons it is traveling on:
All three post-Cold War presidents have made their fair share of errors, but there is a common taproot to many of their failings. That taproot has been the pervasive influence of liberal idealism in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, an influence that crosses party lines and unites Democratic liberal internationalists with Republican neoconservatives. The desire to extend liberalism into Eastern Europe lay behind NATO expansion, and it is a big reason that so-called liberal hawks jumped on the neocon bandwagon in Iraq. It explains why the United States tried to export democracy to Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East, instead of focusing laser-like on al Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks.
This is utter bullshit. All the "liberal idealism" is just a marketing ploy to sell imperial wars for global hegemony. The wars and actions of the post cold-war presidents had nothing to do with liberalism and all to do with resource grabs and general hatred against any independent entity.
If there were a "liberal idealism" based foreign policy how could the U.S. be allied to the Saudis, to a colonial Israel and dozens of nefarious dictatorships throughout the world? When have the neocons or the liberal interventionists ever argued for overthrowing the Saudi regime or the playstation king dictator of Jordan?
Any talk of "liberty" or "promoting democracy" by Washington think tanks and politicians is ALWAYS just a marketing argument that has nothing to do with the real products they are peddling.
That a supposed realist is selling this false claim of "We are only exporting liberal values. If that creates a mess it was not intended" is disturbing especially because the reality is quite different. The creation of the "mess" is what the policy intends and its result.
Here Noam Chomsky looks at the factual record of the real U.S. foreign policy and finds that it is nothing but a corporate protection racket that has nothing to do do with "liberal idealism".
After the cold war ended and the "threat" of the Soviet Union vanished Washington continued to rape other countries just like before. With the "threat of communism" gone it simply used different arguments, all of the false, to sell the rape of Panama, El Salvador, Iraq (twice), Afghanistan, Libya and other not so open wars.
Non of these wars had anything to do with "liberal idealism". That claim only helped to sell the wars at home. In none of these wars and their aftermath were "liberal ideals" any concern for those who implemented U.S. policies. The money spend in and after these wars ended in the pockets of U.S. fat cats and the policies implemented in those foreign countries were only to ensure that those countries would stay enslaved to Washington's demands.
How a "realist" studying the actual historical records can not see that is beyond me.
Al Gore clearly demonstrated in 2005 that Americans are suckers for ‘perceived majority bias’. The Warmist-Globalists claims of “97% of all scientists” was stolen from Madison Avenue and Fleischmann’s margarine campaign, “97% fat free”, selling Americans synthetic hydrogenated corn FAT, pure artery-hardening corn lard, and hyping it as ‘97% fat-free’. And they did sell a lot of it, and Al Gore became a $Baire selling his Dubious Truths, and we are still trapped by UN-IPCC Globalistas, heading towards a National Climate Tithe that will put the Federal jackboot on your job, your food, your energy and your housing.
Fast forward to Mark Zuckerberg’s Dr. Mengele-style experimentation on an entire nation of guinea pigs, with his ‘Happy Face-Sad Face’ experiment, that by dialing up and down the media feed ‘meme of the day’, he proved you can stampede Americans into auto-depression, schizophrenic foreign policy and maniacally fascist outbursts against The Perceived Other.
Gore and Zuckerberg are right out of ‘1984’. Now the public mindspace is becoming a Full Spectrum Dominant propaganda campaign for Neo Liberalism, state privatization, drowning societies in synthetic and largely ‘bicycled’ loans the people will never see, bankrupting their savings and pensions, burying them in illegal ‘debts’, until their entire country and their whole futures are owned by Globalistas and ruled by Deep Government.
For me the crowning ‘aha’ moment was learning that the day Obama was first inaugurated, the Pentagon launched its AfriCom putsch, and the Nigerian government nationalized the natural resources away from The People, over to the State. Nigerians became cattle, moved from place to place by a corrupted National government, the same way that Afghans are, who never HAD a Federal government, until Cheney’s people created a new National currency, a National flag, even a National anthem, in ENGLISH, while bmobs were raining down on Kabul.
Cheney’s people even wrote out the Afghan Minerals and Hydrocarbons Acts, in ENGLISH, in November 2001, just 60 days after the WTC came down, giving only infinitesimal royalites to their Afghan Overlord Karzai, just enough to pay the upkeep on his Republican Guard.
Wait, we went into Afghanistan to get OBL?! Why doesn’t that make the media? Because the media is OWNED by the Globalists, and now they’re trying to conflate all the many horrible losses and miscalculations and war crimes of the MIC onto Obama and ‘liberal philosophy.’ Not over to Neo-Liberalism, mind you, no, but to those who believe in health and human services liberal thought, the only reason we have to pay taxes really, and that faith is being stripped away by a pan-media Globalist skullf*ck.
It’s working…and a new Republican fascist society mirroring Ukraine will take over USA. There is no way to stop it. Big Brother watches everyone. They know every word you’ve ever written, and every dollar in your bank account, while you’re sucking on their media feed.
It’s over. Resistance is futile. The Fourth Reich of 1000 Years is an inevitability now.
‘We won, you lost. It’s just business, get over it. NOW GET OFF MY LAND!”
Posted by: chip nikh | Jul 3 2014 6:36 utc | 45
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