“You was once so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you may’t refuse
Whenever you ain’t obtained nothing, you bought nothing to lose
You’re invisible now, you’ve obtained no secrets and techniques to hide”– Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”
It’s at all times encouraging when a rustic’s army commander-in-chief – President Biden, on this case – publicizes upfront that he is aware of how he’s going to reply militarily to the killing of three American troopers at a base that helps an unlawful and immoral U.S. “covert” conflict in opposition to Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, and all those that oppose the US/Israel slaughter of Palestinians. Such anxiousness to point out antecedently that he’s not sitting on his palms is touching. It’s the sort of announcement that each one nice army leaders make. It’s the sort of boastful stupidity that has lengthy been the norm for U.S. presidents who love conflict however lose all of them whereas masquerading as conquerors. So it goes, and so it would go.
So as to add to that, Biden says he doesn’t desire a wider conflict as he creates one, since you may at all times take him on the reverse of his phrases. But he actually has no secrets and techniques since his clear corruption is sort of palpable: He helps the Israeli/U.S. genocide in Gaza, the Ukrainian conflict in opposition to Russia, has expanded the conflict within the Center East over the previous few weeks, and can quickly widen it additional whereas the mass media report that he and his solid of fools try to “handle” their violent responses to stop a wider conflict. The narrative has it that he’s making an attempt to outfox Netanyahu, who has typically bragged how he has the united statesA. in his again pocket.
It’s exhausting to not snicker derisively. Now Biden points an government order to sanction some Israelis on the West Financial institution, as if this blatant political transfer to assist his election probabilities with Muslim People is an act of ethical statesmanship, whereas the blood of over 27,000 Palestinians drips from his shaky palms and will increase every day.
My guess is that he’ll, as CIA veteran Larry Johnson suggests, execute his militarily meaningless bombing late at present, Groundhog Day, not a lot as a result of he has to endlessly repeat comparable macho acts of a Napolean in rags (which he does), however as a result of the South Carolina major is tomorrow and acts of conflict are interesting to the state’s army linked voters. Moreover, to well timed “avenge” the lives of the three black troopers killed in Jordan may assist Biden with the essential black vote on this major that can positively launch his reelection marketing campaign or set him again on his heels.
Acts of conflict have lengthy been the magic rabbit American presidents have relied on to bail them out of political jeopardy and to point out their macho toughness. On this case, as in others, similar to Trump’s 2013 assault on Syria with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles for the false accusation of Syrian chemical weapons use (a continuation of Obama’s conflict in opposition to Syria), the precise harm inflicted is usually minor whereas the headline grabbing showmanship is main. That these presidents legally justify these acts of conflict based mostly on the conflict authorization Congress handed following September 11, 2001 is telling. The so-called conflict on terror and a supine Congress is the present that retains giving the warfare state carte blanche to assault and kill whomever it rattling effectively pleases.
In Biden’s case at present, these are the actions of a desperado, a war-loving bumbling puppet who’s over or below or out of his head as he feigns outrage on the killing of three troopers who had been positioned in a spot the place their lives had been in danger as a result of they had been cogs in an imperial conflict machine. Pawns within the recreation. A really harmful recreation wherein the Zionists leaders of Israel are as determined as Biden and whose secret operatives are little doubt plotting a determined scheme to attempt to develop the conflict. Who’s jerking whose chain could also be questionable, however the canines of conflict are barking.
“Whenever you ain’t obtained nothing, you bought nothing to lose.”
As Finian Cunningham has simply written, “Biden has led U.S. imperialism out of the quagmire of Afghanistan into an excellent greater quagmire within the Center East. With the goading by his equally brainless political rivals, the People are plowing additional into catastrophe.”
No rival politician to Biden dares problem his allegiance to the Israel Foyer and what the inestimable CIA veteran Ray McGovern calls the Army-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Suppose-Tank advanced, (MICIMATT), for they too are captives of it. A small demurral on this or that minor level they might make, however they primarily assist the imperial hubris of the warfare state and its symbiotic relationship with Netanyahu and his ilk.
We’re speaking about very silly leaders who’ve by no means discovered from their losses and are risking a significant conflict.
Cunningham writes, “With over 50 army bases strung throughout the Center East in 10 nations and with over 50,000 U.S. troops stationed within the area, the People are sitting geese for the resistance. The arrival of drones and newer missile expertise is a brand new realm of warfare the People haven’t tailored to with their land garrisons in distant deserts and gaudy warships. . . . They don’t know what’s coming to them given the lengthy historical past of U.S. aggression, provocation, and unlawful occupation within the area.”
There are even many normally astute critics of U.S. overseas coverage who’ve not too long ago claimed that the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice’s (ICJ) latest ruling was a win for the Palestinians, which it was not, because the ICJ appointed Netanyahu to “stop and punish” these liable for “genocidal acts.” Ought to one snicker? (See this and this.) The savage Israeli assaults on Gaza proceed apace with 124 Palestinians killed up to now 24 hours and effectively over a thousand killed because the ruling. Spinning the ruling to accord with one’s hopes and well-intentioned needs is not going to assist the victims of the genocide however will solely intimate that worldwide legislation is someway nonetheless operative when it isn’t.
So the emperor has no garments or is wearing rags and all of us await Punxsutawney Joe to inform us which manner the wind blows.
“He’s not promoting any alibis/ As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes/And say, ‘Do you need to make a deal?”
