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Above the law
The Queen acts more arrogant and insolent every day. She’s confident that now that the Benghazi committee’s report will end up gathering dust, her only obstacle left is the FBI investigation and truly who really believes that Loretta Lynch, the Obama sycophant extraordinaire, would dare move to indict Hillary, even if the FBI did recommend an indictment.
Hillary Clinton is above the law.
The Democrats deliberately moved yesterday to protect Hillary from political fall-out from today’s release of the House Select Committee on Benghazi report. The Democrats pulled another thuggish move by preempting the actual report of the committee with their own propaganda designed to sell their talking points:
“This is just a right-wing witch hunt.”
“This investigation wasted millions of taxpayers money.”
The Democrats on the Benghazi committee showed an amazing lack of interest in uncovering facts, gathering information, questioning witnesses or doing any sort of real investigation. This is par for the course and to see how incompetent and disingenuous the Democrats are, they mention the ARB report as proof positive no one was culpable for the gross failures of the Obama administration to even attempt a rescue of the Americans under attack in Benghazi.
Just remember that the ARB committee kept no record of their witness interviews or meetings and operated strictly off of their own memories or personal notes, all to assure they left no paper trail. That in and of itself is obscene and so blatantly indicative that their report was just a sham to provide cover for the Obama administration. And on top of that, the ARB committee never once interviewed Hillary Clinton.
There’s no point in rehashing all the issues or ranting about my disgust with how the Obama administration handled not only the Benghazi attack, but the obscene manner in which they tried to cover-up their grotesque incompetence in the aftermath.
The Democrats mastered a totalitarian form of information warfare, as I’ve repeated many times and it was a foregone conclusion that this investigation would lead no where, because the Democrats have the mass media colluding with their spin constantly. To watch elected officials participate in this vile talking points messaging (brainwashing), with not a hint of recognition that their behavior is an assault on The Constitution left me feeling not only sickened, but deeply saddened.
Four brave Americans died and no one in the American government did a single thing to try and save them.
That’s the TRUTH.
No one in the American government will do a thing to hold anyone accountable for this obscene failure. We all now know that the politicians’ partisan agenda matters more than Americans in harm’s way actually risking their lives for America. Hillary Clinton’s political future matters more than any other American citizen’s rights or justice
Here’s the link to the Select Committee on Benghazi’s report.
Filed under Culture Wars, Foreign Policy, General Interest, Politics, Public Corruption
After Orlando: Clinton 2.0 scorched earth unleashed
I’ve hesitated commenting on Orlando, so first here’s the political situation. In the wake of the Orlando terrorist attack, while Donald Trump added another talking point for the Democratic party, the rest of their script remained predictable, totally dishonest, deliberately deceptive and a messaging marvel to behold. While Bernie still clings to a few threads to be relevant, for all intents and purposes, the Dems are unified and Orlando appears to be a watershed event to get them all marching in lockstep.
Donald Trump’s cheerleading section, as usual, applauded that he was saying things no one else will say, touching on common sense themes like a moratorium on taking in Muslim refugees, in light of fact that despite Jeh Johnson’s disingenuous assurances, there’s no way to thoroughly vet refugees from Iraq and Syria, due to the political instability, ditto that for Somalia and ISIS stated they will use the refugee crisis to get ISIS militants into the US. Trump made a common sense point, except with the terrorist in Orlando, he wasn’t a refugee or an immigrant, but a born and raised, American citizen and Trump’s common sense policy would not have prevented this terrorist from being in the US.
Then Trump played identity politics, as he tried to use the tragedy to shamelessly and clumsily pander to the LGBT community. If there were any doubts that his Sunday tweets and comments, instead of winning over gays, backfired and helped galvanize the fractious Dem minority and special interest groups, well just look at how fast the LGBT community smacked down Trump’s pathetic political pandering.
Trump could have demonstrated some calm, resolute leadership, but instead it was the same old loudmouth bragging, callous and bizarre tweets, insensitive remarks and the same old need to eclipse any story, no matter how grave, with himself. He sent a tweet on Sunday thanking his followers for congratulating him for being right on terrorism , trying to capitalize on being seen as a tough and resolute leader in a crisis, but by yesterday he looked to be desperately searching for an angle to be heard over the Dem talking points… Without any warning he knifed the NRA in the back, completely overlooking the politicization of terrorist watch lists by the Obama administration, when he announced he supports restricting people on terror watch lists from buying guns.
Since Monday, Republican leaders, as usual, seem unsure of how to deal with Donald Trump, who spends more time sabotaging and undermining the GOP than he does fighting Hillary Clinton. So, many GOP leaders are avoiding the press….. abandoning the media field and allowing the Dems to control the 24/7 news cycle, unchallenged.
Sure, President Obama came out and blasted Trump in a very petulant, hyper-partisan manner. Hillary came out and bashed Trump more than she addressed the terrorist attack too, but the difference is the media pivoted and moved in unison to get in line with the Dem talking points. A main Dem talking point IS “Trump is a loose cannon”, so they were completely on message. The cable news networks, not even Trump central (FOX News), were giving Trump 24/7 control of the news cycle, to relentlessly repeat his talking points, ergo he’s sinking fast. Trump has no plan other than his “GOP Insurgency”. He has no viable ground game and added to the GOP disunity, his campaign remains disorganized and internally an internecine battleground too.
All of this was completely predictable watching how he operated rather than grasping at his buzz words as if they were actual complete ideas and policies. If you want to figure out how people will perform any job, first gauge their character and then watch how they operate and by operate I mean see how they handle different tasks and challenges, how they utilize resources, both staff and material resources. Good leadership is mostly about the leader’s character and how he operates with his team. Any person who engages in vicious character assassinations within his own party, plays people against each other constantly, delights in publicly humiliating people and most of all makes every issue almost entirely about his own vanity will be a terrible leader. Even Trump’s delight in being rude speaks to a person who has no respect for others. As I’ve said many times, Trump, in every discernible way he operates, screams “toxic leader”.
Lest, anyone doubt it, the Clintons 2.0 scorched earth/mass media saturation strategy moved into full assault mode and it is a take no prisoners ruthless offensive to destroy Donald Trump and the GOP. The unified messaging coming from President Obama, Hillary, Dem Congressional leaders, on down to the LGBT community activists, who smacked down Trump’s attempt to woo them, should alarm GOP leaders. The liberal media moved into general election high gear too, spinning Orlando as the result of Christian bigots fomenting “hate” against the LGBT community and gun violence. This messaging marvel, where the Dems circulated their talking points and got all their spokespeople and the media on message within hours, should clue the GOP leaders in that the undisciplined, raving primary Trump, who loves to launch character assassinations is the real Trump, who would still rather attack fellow Republicans. He’s going to be a disaster in November.
So, when the LGBT community threw his shallow pandering back in his face, Trump pivoted and tried to steal some of the Dems thunder by attempting to steal one of their main their talking points on gun control. He made this abrupt policy change without even so much as discussing his new epiphany beforehand with GOP leaders or the NRA.
Perhaps more GOP leaders will abandon the Trump train, but at this point either with Trump as the nominee or going through the fractious process of dumping him at the convention, Trump’s “GOP insurgency” leaves the GOP a smoldering rubble. That Trump, without so much as a phone call, could sign on to a key Dem gun control plank in their messaging blitz should finally clue in even the most deluded Republicans that Trump is a total fraud and loose cannon.
Absent the FBI playing some wild card, Hillary, corrupt, vile and politically tone deaf, sits well-positioned to win by a huge margin in November against Donald Trump.
The other stunning takeaway from Orlando is the Dems hate Republicans more than they care about Islamist terrorism – that’s a reality Republicans still don’t understand and that reality is a topic I want to broach in another post.
Filed under Culture Wars, Foreign Policy, General Interest, Politics
A tougher ISIS plan
My thoughts on what to do about ISIS follow.
We need to use military force to a purpose and “crushing” terrorists, who are widely dispersed in more than 80 countries isn’t feasible. The military force needs to be about taking away territory controlled by ISIS and insuring a political situation on the ground follows that does not embrace radical Islam. The proponents of “go crush them” almost invariably are the same ones who don’t want us getting bogged down in the ME again and a common refrain is “we go crush them and come home”, except that is a ridiculous idea, because unless there’s a dramatic, long-term political change on the ground, Islamic terrorist groups keep springing up in the ME.
Trump tough talking points aren’t a strategy, they’re his usual mindless bluster and what he thinks will play well in the polls. Trump decides merits on the polls – national security is just a huge popularity contest to him – if most people agree with it, it’s “great”. You want to see how Trump really operates, just peek at the internal chaos inside his campaign or that he’s at the general election stage and still doesn’t have a viable ground game or that none of his plans is ever well-thought out with clear, coherent planning. You want to see what Hillary is like, well, just look to the carefully focus-group tested parsing she engages in as she tries to find the right words to sell herself. In real world tests of foreign policy chops – look at the mess in Libya as exhibit A on her foreign policy “successes”. Both of them are unfit to be commander-in-chief and both lack any real understanding of foreign policy. Their foreign policy ideas are always about what words and phrases will poll best, not about sound national security strategy.
I’m all for profiling and being tougher, but tougher needs to be smart and it starts with a comprehensive national strategy that incorporates every tool of national power to deal with the real problem and that’s not primarily ISIS, it’s a much larger threat – the collapsing Islamic civilization. As their civilization keeps falling apart its tremors and eruptions keep impacting us more and more. Some of our strategy needs to be offensive, but a lot of it also needs to be defensive to protect Americans from the fall-out. We can’t go in and fix Islamic civilization, so we need to use our military options carefully and where we have regional leaders working with us to stabilize the situation on the ground and we need to choose the areas we expend military force to ones that are of vital national interest to us.
My views are controversial. Frankly, jumping into the hot mess that is Iraq and Syria impetuously isn’t smart imho. The Russian are there, the Iranians are there – we will only get played for fools if we rush into Syria. In Iraq, Obama walked away and Iran now is the driving force behind the Iraqi government. The Iraqi government relies on Shia militias to fight ISIS and those militias are funded and controlled by Iran, so our military actions are bolstering Iran in Iraq these days, not doing a thing to defeat ISIS. The Shia control in Baghdad assures the Sunni insurgency (ISIS and other Sunni tribal groups) will continue. Let Iran and the Russians cope with that. We need to use our military force where it benefits us and rushing into Syria is a strategic trap where we will end up being the dupe.
I would engage in some tough foreign policy talks with regional leaders and Russia and China, before blabbing about carpet bombing ISIS or destroying ISIS. That entire “moderate Syrian rebels” malarkey was an hostile foreign propaganda coup and that the Institute for the Study of War was a prime spreader of that should raise a lot of red flags. It was a wild goose chase, because vetted US intelligence knew early on that the Syrian rebels were radicalized early and all of those groups were Islamist – some more Islamist than others, but nonetheless Islamist. These “experts” pushing for us to rush in and destroy ISIS are 3rd rate checkers strategic players. Putin would love to see us bogged down in Iraq/Syria, as he and the Chinese make military moves elsewhere and we are unable to respond. We need to wake-up and play the “diplomacy” game like chess players and quit being the 3rd rate checkers player on the world stage!
Obama has gutted our military and infested it with social engineering policies designed to destroy military cohesion and effectiveness. We need to rid the military of Obama’s policies and rebuild our military. We aren’t ready for some ramped up ISIS war or carpet bombing for that matter. That’s the real truth and that alone should scare every American. We need to rebuild our military
I think we should use the laws already on the books and place a ban on immigration from several radical Islam hot bed countries due to the political instability in those countries and then we need to have an across the board standard that every immigrant or refugee coming into America needs to be thoroughly vetted. Obama wants to let in 10,000 before he leaves office. It goes without saying we should have secured our borders all along – why we haven’t is a national disgrace. Putin, Soros and and other American enemies are fueling this entire “refugee crisis” – they are using it to destabilize Western countries – that is obvious. All sorts of “NGOs” are set-up from the fake passport shops to locations all along the route into Europe to feed, clothe, direct the flow of “refugees”, provide them cell phones, etc. There are Soros-funded groups in America to promote the “refugee” policy here too, but even more alarming is many Christian charities get big bucks from the federal government to provide “refugee services” and they are propaganda machines too.
As to domestic policing – how about we untie their hands and let’s quit with all the Islamophobia hype and focus on finding these ISIS terrorists and connections in America. We can do that while still protecting the civil liberties of all Americans.
Here’s an excellent big picture piece by Daniel Greenfield on the civilizational crisis in the Islamic world:
Filed under Foreign Policy, General Interest, Islam, Military, Politics, Terrorism
The winds of war blow hotter
My favorite analogy about geopolitical strategy is one which I don’t remember where it came from or I would attribute it appropriately. There’s a pack of dogs standing around and suddenly one dog steps away from the pack, puts his nose high in the air, ears perked up, and hones his eyes far into the distance, sensing danger. The other dogs continue to amble about unaware of the threat. That dog who sensed danger early is your geopolitical strategist.
Hopefully, there are a lot of US national security dogs who’ve stepped away from the pack and are looking at the internal US political situation, a leader-from-behind CINC totally clueless on geopolitics, an American public distracted by a sideshow presidential election and a US military that has been ruthlessly gutted by President Obama. Let’s hope they are stepping into America’s most determined adversaries’ shoes and gauging our adversaries’ escalating military provocations accurately. If you were going to escalate matters, you would choose a time when America is completely distracted. The polarized political climate leaves America ripe for internal factionalized hostile agitation propaganda efforts and staged riots to divert attention to domestic, rather than foreign issues.
Time to keep scanning the far horizons and staying alert!
The last few months of escalated Russian and Chinese military provocations should have some US national security dogs on alert – things are brewing.
U.S.: Chinese jet makes ‘unsafe’ intercept of Air Force plane
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More on the “great” General David Petraeus
New documents say FBI found hundreds of classified files on Broadwell’s computer
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article82469027.html#storylink=cpy
Filed under Foreign Policy, General Interest, Military, Politics, The Media, Uncategorized
Hillary scored a win today
Hillary Clinton delivered her first general election foreign policy speech today and if even a tiny fraction of her claims about her foreign policy record were the truth, she’d be a truly dynamic candidate. Her speech was very good and she delivered it quite expertly. She made the contrast between her and Donald Trump crystal clear and he reacted in his usual juvenile twitter tantrum default mode. Of course, Hillary and her staff, who wrote that speech, knew Trump would lash out, that’s why the attacks on him were written to jab him so hard.
When it comes to manipulation, Hillary wins hands down against Trump. She played him expertly. Now, with her email server scandal still hanging over her head and her real foreign policy disastrous record ripe for a rehash, there’s still plenty many more episodes left in this 2016 battle for the presidency. Today, Hillary scored several points against Trump and he looked like a whining loser.
Filed under Culture Wars, Foreign Policy, General Interest, Politics
Ahhh yes, the “end of history”…
G. Murphy Donovan has a new piece up at The American Thinker, “Trump and the Victory Deficit”. I posted two comments:
susanholly Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:41 AM
“By all measures, national security success is job one.”
Ah yes, the “great” Trump dissed every American ally, announced he would order US troops to commit war crimes to “scare” ISIS terrorists and today it’s reported he might open talks with North Korea….
The Trump “Unpredictable” Foreign Policy……. a surefire “winner”. Lol, what a joke, GMD!
And then I posted a response to another comment
USA-RIP Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:25 PM
“Trump needs to pick a team that sends an inclusive message.”
Isn’t it interesting how all the ‘experts’ want to tell Trump, who has done exceedingly well by marching to his own drummer, what to do to get elected? I’d rather Trump continue on his own path and ignore the Karl Roves, GOPe, RINOs etc. losers. Not faulting the author, but may be it is time for a new direction.susanholly Wednesday, May 18, 2016 4:38 PM
Trump has done exceedingly well with corrupt 10 months of FREE 24/7 NEW coverage, coupled with relentless repetition of his talking points,buzz words and the news media hyping the “winning in all the polls”, “Trump breaks all the rules”, “Trump the GOP Insurgent”.
The three cable NEWS networks giving Trump BILLIONS of dollars in free media, guaranteed Trump would be winning in the polls, because it’s a RIGGED system.
Sadly, former US military “Soviet analysts”, who don’t recognize mass media INFORMATION WARFARE, even though mass media manipulation and totalitarian mass media control were part of their intelligence training, worry me more than Trump, quite frankly.
Mass media saturation is the military strategy of swarming juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield. It couples relentless repetition of talking points and buzz words and polling data to allow those political messages to control the 24/7 news cycle. This repetition manufactures opinion/information cascades and is a form mass brainwashing – hence Obama zombies sound very much like Trump’s 5th Avenue Loyalists. it preys on those easily led and Trump’s beloved “poorly educated”. This use of mass media is more at home in totalitarian regimes.
Scorched earth is the military strategy of scorched earth (a war crime under the Geneva Conventions btw) juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield, Scorched earth information warfare is a take no prisoners blitz of relentlessly repeated vicious character assassinations AND mass media saturation on steroids.
Mass media saturation strategy is a complex, sophisticated form of Information Warfare and to succeed it requires active collusion between the politcal operatives and the mass media, who knowingly facilitate the mass media saturation.
Sometimes I wonder if when the Soviet Union collapsed, good American national security protocols collapsed too…
Ahhh, yes, the “end of history” and all that….
Filed under Foreign Policy, General Interest, Military, Politics, Public Corruption, The Media
Loose threads
Here are some LB foreign policy loose threads I’m pondering:
Cheney – family involved with the Kimberly Kagan Institute for the Study of War
ISW – hired “Dr.” Elizabeth O’Bagy the “moderate Syrian rebel expert” and Political Director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force. O’Bagy also listed in her bio on her ISW report on Syria rebels that her thesis topic was “women’s militancy”. O’Bagy was exposed as not having a doctorate degree and she was fired from the ISW. ( https://libertybellediaries.co… ). Here’s her 2012 ISW report on Syria –http://www.understandingwar.or…
Now, back in early 2013 Senator John McCain took a “fact-finding” trip to Syria and he was led on this trip by O’Bagy and the SETF. He was conveniently staged to be photographed with Syrian rebels, who were later reported to be terrorists. (a set-up)
Sec of State Kerry and McCain both relied on O’Bagy’s reporting on the “Syrian moderates”, yet in 2015 McClatchy reported that US intelligence knew about the radicalization of the Syrian rebels early, yet Kerry and McCain were relying on this young woman’s expertise. ( http://www.mcclatchydc.com/new… ),
Kerry and McCain have often made strange foreign policy flip flops and here they were both selling the advice of this unknown young woman, whose only credentials came from the ISW promoting her as the “Syrian Expert”.
Both Kerry and McCain chose to believe “intelligence” from this unknown young woman OVER vetted intelligence from US intelligence reports.
Keep in mind that stories float about from time to time about both, Kerry and McCain, about inconsistencies with their Vietnam conduct. Even in this weird Trump circus, Trump attacked McCain (inciting a huge backlash). Kerry had that whole “Swift boat” backlash.
Emotions aside, just consider that photo McCain was staged in, on that fact-finding trip to Syria, by O’Bagy and that SETF. McCain became the loudest cheerleader about arming “moderate” Syrian rebels, McCain also immediately hired this young woman, just fired from the ISW for LYING on her resume.
So, after the ISW fired O’Bagy, John McCain turned right around and hired this woman as a staffer and the question I want to know is did O’Bagy ever undergo a security background check or was it waived. She’s still on his staff. O’Bagy had a lot of strange connections
Here’s Kimberly Kagan’s husband Frederick beating the drum for US aiding “Syrian Moderates” –https://www.washingtonpost.com… That piece is priceless – so we’re supposed to wage a half-hearted strike to boost the morale of the Syrian rebels – at the expense of US military credibility…
The other Kagan and his lovely wife, Victoria Nuland are also menaces to US foreign policy. (I have many doubts about this crowd, that manages to routinely steer America into really bad foreign policy messes.
When Russia acted in Syria the ISW provided maps to FOX news and CNN – where the maps differed, the WH narrative and military analysis by the FOX military analysts Gen Jack Keane (also in the board of ISW) and LTC Shaffer did not match the details on the map:
Image from Megyn Kelly’s Twitter- https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/651207283574083584
Image from http://politibrew.com/politics/3298-general-jack-keane-how-russian-airstrikes-will-impact-region
AND
“Syrian official says ‘wide-scale offensive’ launched”
Gen.Keane pushed for arming the illusive “Syrian moderates” and yet the “narrative” at the time the Russians moved in Syria, the neocon big voices were screaming about the Russians and claiming they were targeting US-backed “moderate” Syrian rebels. The heaviest shot group of attacks on these maps was north of Hama, which these ISW map legends indicate was controlled by Jubhat al Nusra, Syrian rebels or ISIS – 3 maps from the ISW – three different takes on the strikes the Obama narrative and the ISW were ranting were the Russians targeting “CIA trained US Syrian “moderate” rebels. The media and punditry “experts” all went with the “narrative”.
The US military was publicly berated by McCain over the slow pace of the US military vetting and training “moderate” Syrian rebels in some $500 million dollar program. A US general was dragged before a McCain public hearing and berated for incompetency basically. Long before the CIA was shipping weapons from Benghazi to Syria – (Benghazi another spectacular bad policy with lots of hostile foreign intelligence setting up Obama and Hillary). The US military always ends up being the fall-guy for McCain in big show hearings. The US military was having a hard time finding “moderate” Syrian rebels to train (the CIA not so much – guess it depends on the definition of “moderate”) http://www.theguardian.com/us-…
For a flavor of how the US military training of “moderate” Syrian rebels went, even before this staged public humiliation of another US general – here’s what happened when the US military trained the “moderate” Syrian rebel leader that Foreign Policy magazine dubbed the “last best hope for Syria” (http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/… ) – well, the US military trained Jamal Maaroouf and his band of “moderates”. Maarouf then went back into the fight armed with US TOW missiles and declared a truce with ISIS ( https://pjmedia.com/blog/yet-a… )
The US military is being set up by its own government to look weak and ineffectual – aided by the likes of Kerry and McCain and also America’s “greatest” general, who appears to have been set up too by hostile foreign intelligence. Plea deals btw usually mean more serious charges are dropped to make the case go away in cases that are embarrassing to an administration. McCain still calls the “greatest” general in to testify – even though the general was disgraced and showed gross lack of judgment to mishandle sensitive information that contained information on actual human assets on the ground in Afghanistan (these are LIVES his careless and reckless actions put at risk). Yet, he shows up to say whatever he’s been pressured to say and the media still sells Petraeus as the “greatest general of his generation”….
The ISW was instrumental behind the surge in Iraq, but blowback always follows. al Baghdadi went from the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq to the Caliph of ISIS/ ISIS,/IS. al Baghdadi was well known to the US military in Iraq, in fact, he had been held prisoner by the US in Iraq. Yet the Obama administration and the media pretended al Baghdadi came out of the blue. Insurgencies deepen and Salafist terrorists get more radical as they splinter into other groups. America’s greatest general emerged as some new military genius of the ages with his COIN, he had an affair with his biographer, compromised sensitive information and resigned as the director of the CIA.
“The affair brought down the retired four-star general who led U.S. strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Petraeus resigned from his role as director of the CIA in 2012 after it was revealed that he shared with Broadwell eight “black books” that he had compiled in Afghanistan and improperly kept after retiring from the Army.
The binders reportedly contained secret codes and covert identities, as well as overall strategy discussions and security reports. Broadwell kept the books for at least four days in 2011, according to prosecutors. They were seized by the FBI during a 2013 raid on Petraeus’ home. Court documents also show that Petraeus lied about keeping the sensitive information and about giving it to Broadwell, according to the Observer. Broadwell has not been charged with any crimes.”
Petraeus was given a slap on the wrist and he had Hillary’s lawyer, David Kendall. The odder part of the Petraeus fall is that socialite, Jill Kelley, who was hobnobbing with the generals at Central Command in Tampa. General Allen was exchanging emails with this woman. She has no connection to the Army, yet she was like a goodwill ambassador hobnobbing at Central Command. Kelley – American citizen, born in Lebanon. I don’t buy into the no profiling – I look at family, ethnic and religious connections, then political to figure out who people are. I wonder if anyone at Central Command ever checked out this woman due to her close connections with top American generals at a highly-sensitive command headquarters.
Cheney and his Kagan connections make me uneasy. I think George H.W. Bush had it right – GWB got some very bad advice. I also suspect our government, at high levels, is infiltrated by hostile foreign intelligence.
So after the mess in Iraq, courtesy of military geniuses, like the Kagans being listened to and the ISW forming, then came the ISW clamor to charge into the Syrian civil war and this entire fabricated “Syrian moderate” wild goose chase. I keep wondering if this ISW is a foreign front set-up and that leads to other troubling questions about those connected to it. Too many bad vibes from that Kagan family and Dick Cheney.
Nothing good comes to American troops from listening to Cheney’s foreign policy advice or the Kagans, imo. Why on earth with Afghanistan poised to fall back into the hands of the Taliban, Iraq a wreck, Libya a wreck, Egypt trying to stabilize from that “Arab Spring” MB takeover, facilitated by the Obama administration would we charge into a civil war where an odious strong-man, who has been a Russian ally for decades and with the Russians’ naval base at Tartus, try to jump into a civil war being waged by ISLAMISTS (of varying degrees of radicalization- but all ISLAMISTS)??? The ISW was a big driver of that push.
Nuland was involved in creating US embarrassments in the Ukraine (Russian speaker btw). Yet her actions in Ukraine created embarrassment for the US with our European allies and the Russians leaked her phone call from an unsecured phone call to the US ambassador in Kiev. I wonder about her too….
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-02-06/intercepted-phone-call-shows-u-s-role-in-ukraine
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2013/12/18/meet-neocon-doughnut-dolly-victoria-nuland.html
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/02/first-republican-for-clinton-over-trump-emerges.html
So, Nuland and her neocon husband, switched to support Hillary back in February 2016- So keep in mind that hostile foreign players like to cover all the bases and keep all avenues in to the halls of power in Washington open.
Lots of weirdness
In this Trump show – Trump went out and trashed McCain, being fed bad advice from his advisers (now who is really providing this advice to Trump is an open question – my leaning is Trump was set-up by Clinton operatives, – note Carville and crowd operate like the KGB or old East German Stasi in their opposition research behavior and ruthless character assassinations – planting stories in the media too.. Remember Carville came to notice when Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush and Carville married Mary Matalin… I have had many doubts about how George H.W. Bush got defeated by the Matalin/Carville team (hostile foreign operatives is what I have suspected for years).
In a recent Kerry move the US military suffered another humiliation – https://uk.news.yahoo.com/iran…
Biden is there as an Obama minder – to make sure things don’t get too out of hand – (wonder who Biden is aligned with? Putin or Soros?)
So, partisan politics aside we have Trump and Hillary both running “scorched earth/mass media saturation strategy” as presidential campaigning and that type of INFORMATION WARFARE. This mass media saturation allows CONTROL of the 24/7 NEW cycle in America to a particular political agenda or political figure..
Carville/Begala scorched earth is the military strategy of scorched earth (a war crime under the Geneva Conventions btw) juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield
Mass media saturation is the military strategy of swarming juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield
Combined, they have been ruthlessly used to divide America into hostile, warring factions. Perhaps it’s time to figure out the driving force(s) behind them.
CNN and MSNBC are overrun with foreign operatives, I believe. Ed Schultz is on RT, Soledad O’Brien went to Al Jazeera. Look at Amanpour (Iranian), who pushed for US intervention in Bosnia and can be counted on to set up the US military at every turn. Amanpour btw married into the Clinton administration in the 90s, allowing her even closer access to the State Dept goings on . Former Carville/Begala partner is at ABC, with his church-boy smile and persona.
FOX News is a foreign-owned corporation that fuels agitation propaganda on the right, to incite flag-waving Americans.
FOX just helped Trump wage the GOP Insurgency with 24/7 scorched earth/mass media saturation for Trump. Hillary has a MB agent by her side. I believe Obama has an Iranian agent by his side and an Arabist (close Saudi ties/perhaps devoted Muslim) at the CIA.. Trump is being fed advice by some really bad advisers – time to find out who is really playing Trump. Trump was fed those fascist memes and sold on that “committing war crimes as serious policy” idea from some political advisers. In my opinion, it looks like Putin would rather deal with Trump (hence the 24/7 Trump show on FOX, but Soros wants Hillary and either way the Russians and Chinese, who are ramping up military aggression against US forces, have all of Hillary’s emails, so they can blackmail her at will.)
This goes way beyond partisan politics.
We are infiltrated all the way to the top.
America’s national security is at stake.
Big picture/little picture
#DefendTheConstitutionAlways
Filed under Culture Wars, Foreign Policy, General Interest, Military, Politics, Public Corruption, Terrorism, The Media
Pentagon Warns of Conflict Over Chinese Buildup on Disputed Island
China’s plans to build up a disputed island near the Philippines could lead to a regional conflict
Source: Pentagon Warns of Conflict Over Chinese Buildup on Disputed Island
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