I generally marvel what the Founders, if they may return to life and see their creation, would consider immediately’s American Republic. President George W. Bush described the Structure of the US as “only a goddamned piece of paper” earlier than he went on a rampage all around the world in what he known as the “warfare on terror.” In fact, he had most likely by no means even learn the Structure or the Federalist Papers and due to this fact didn’t perceive how the Founders had intentionally made it tough to go to warfare, which they considered the best evil confronting the brand new nation. Bush proceeded to push by way of different unconstitutional laws together with the so-called Patriot Act which empowered him to kill some a whole bunch of 1000’s of harmless human beings in locations like Afghanistan and Iraq with out declaring warfare on anybody after having produced fabricated data to justify the brutality.
However that was then and now could be fairly completely different and even worse, with a president who usually seems to be missing any mind cells holding palms behind his furrowed forehead. The US is at the moment at warfare in two nations, has unlawful occupying navy forces based mostly in not less than three extra, and is kind of probably conniving at including a number of extra enemies du jour, specifically Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, China and Russia. All of that is being achieved with out declarations of warfare from Congress and with out even compliance with the 1973 unconstitutional Struggle Powers Act, which mandated that the president needs to be confronting an imminent menace to take such motion. Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken have additionally twice sidestepped the requirement that Congress ought to approve all arms transfers to international nations by falsely claiming an “emergency” to ship $250 million of armaments to Israel, weapons which are getting used to hold out a genocide in opposition to the Palestinians, making the US completely complicit in that warfare crime.
I’ve of course been following the Republican primaries in addition to the circulate of self-justifying verbiage in any other case generally known as mendacity popping out of the mouths of the Democratic Get together incumbents, most notably the Zionist-Catholic Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden; his ready sidekick Kamala “has anybody seen her recently” Harris; his Antony Blinken who goes to Israel to barter and the very first thing he tells Bibi is that he’s a Jew; his Director of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas who has forgotten that actual nations have borders; and his Treasury Secretary Janice Yellen who’s completely happy funding a number of wars concurrently whereas operating up the already unsustainable federal debt. Behind all of it is the obvious perception that the US needs to be empowered to inform the remainder of the world easy methods to behave. Oh, and the Democrats have determined to base their 2024 marketing campaign on the intellectual precept of free abortions for everybody! Joe Biden’s confessor want to hear that!
After which there may be Congress, which is following the Senator John McCain precept that one ought to all the time embrace the likelihood for a brand new warfare. Congressman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Schumer appear to like Ukraine and Israel a lot that it leaves little time to do something for his or her precise constituents. Schumer usually reminds audiences that his surname is near the Hebrew phrase for protector, making him “the Jewish state’s protector within the Senate.”
The issue is that America’s so-called authorities has been so corrupted by each cash pouring in from protection contractors and Jewish/Israeli pursuits that they’ve overlooked the individuals who have the misfortune of getting voted the bastards into workplace. Opinion polls counsel that the general public has gone off each the comedians operating Ukraine and the Israeli child killers in Gaza. The voters have additionally realized that they’ve little to no say concerning what the psychopaths within the White Home and on Capitol Hill resolve to do with their tax cash and even their very lives.
Simply to point out how ineffective voting has turn out to be, it’s attention-grabbing to have a look at the insurance policies regarding warfare and peace which have been enunciated by present and up to date presidential candidates to seek out out if anybody critically needs to step on the brakes of the warfare machine. Keep in mind that the Neocons have come to manage of the international insurance policies of each main events which implies that Israel will all the time come first in Washington whereas warfare will even be a relentless factor in America’s relationship with the world.
First comes Genocide Joe whose document speaks for itself. He managed to get out of Afghanistan by abandoning many billions of dollars-worth of navy tools and killing a bunch of American troopers, however he shortly sought to make up for that by avoiding a negotiated finish to the Ukraine-Russia battle and giving Israel a free hand backed by cash and weapons to undertake the slaughter in Gaza. He has made America accent to each conflicts and has successful listing of different nations he may resolve to weaken or assault to exhibit that he’s a robust chief. The doable victims embrace main nations like Iran, Russia and China. He’s now attacking the Houthis in Yemen and has warned that if even a single American is killed on the unlawful navy bases in Iraq and Syria he may need to go to warfare with Iran, which he blamed for the incidents with out offering any proof. His Vice President is Kamala Harris, who’s married to a Hollywood Jewish lawyer. She is, in fact, little greater than an affirmative motion token in place, however makes noises indicating that she is totally on board with what’s going on with Israel and Ukraine.
Trump the GOP nominee-apparent? He’s utterly ignorant on most points together with international coverage and wars and he appoints reckless hawks and neocons like Mike Pompeo and John Bolton to senior positions. Christian Zionist Mike Pence, a dispensationalist who needs the world to finish so he might be wafted as much as heaven, was his Vice President. Trump is completely owned by the Israel Foyer working by way of his son-in-law and his former Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Friedman notably spent his time within the Jewish state supporting Israel slightly than engaged on behalf of Americans or US pursuits. Trump moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem despite worldwide agreements making such a transfer unlawful after receiving $100 million in political donations from Las Vegas on line casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. He additionally acknowledged Israel’s unlawful annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights, allowed unlawful settlement growth, and gave Netanyahu a free hand in coping with the Palestinians. Trump additionally ordered the killing of Qassim Suleimani, a senior Iranian official who was in Baghdad on a peace mission and staged missile assaults on Syria based mostly on false intelligence. Trump offers lip service to ending “ineffective wars” however by no means did so in apply when he was in workplace. He’s susceptible to throwing round threats and has declared not too long ago that if an enemy within the Center East spills a “’drop of American blood’ I’ll spill a ‘gallon of yours.’” This comes from a person who prevented the Vietnam Struggle draft as a result of he discovered a health care provider who found that he suffered from “bone spurs.”
After which there may be nonetheless standing the Republican contender Nikki Haley, former Governor of South Carolina and Donald Trump’s United Nations consultant. She has been described as the feminine model of John McCain and he or she is a whole supporter of the carnage in Ukraine and is much more so a complete Israel firster. She is a hawk throughout the board and it’s believed that the majority of her political monetary help comes from Jewish sources which are tied to Israel. She has stated that Israel ought to remove Hamas, which she considers to embody all Palestinians, and that the US mustn’t soak up any Palestinian refugees. She additionally rejects the two-state answer to the Israel-Palestine battle as a result of the Palestinians, who’ve rejected a number of two states options in accordance with Nikki, need as an alternative a one-state answer that may remove Israel. She additionally helps the warfare in opposition to Russia in Ukraine.
After which there may be good previous Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, who not too long ago dropped out of the race. He may simply be probably the most vicious Zionist of all of them. He has led plenty of delegations from Florida to Israel and was one of many first to reply to October 7th Gaza occasions by banning Palestinian teams in any respect state universities on account of their alleged “antisemitism.” He didn’t ban and even criticize a single Jewish group for cheerleading the next slaughter of the Palestinians and even opposes giving Palestinian refugees US visas as a result of he claims they’re all “antisemites.” He totally helps all the things Israel is doing in Gaza and believes the Netanyahu ought to have a free hand to do no matter he needs to the Arabs. When DeSantis was a Congressman he notoriously refused to fulfill with survivors in his district from the 1967 Israeli assault on the USS Liberty which killed 34 American crewmen and injured greater than 170. The Israelis sought to sink the ship and a cover-up of the incident ensued because of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who declared that he would slightly see the ship go to the underside of the ocean and all on board killed than embarrass his Israeli mates. LBJ additionally ordered the recall of a squadron of US jet fighters that had been despatched to assist the Liberty.
Not a lot room left! Lastly there may be Robert F. Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr) who initially did job in fooling potential voters into considering he was a person of peace, however he turned all John McCain after he blundered by praising Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters. Israel’s mates and partisans shortly knowledgeable him that Waters was on their enemies listing due to his overtly expressed help for the Palestinian trigger. Kennedy instantly deleted his reward of Waters and declared him to be a “vicious anti-Semite.” He additionally claimed falsely that the Palestinian Authority has provided to pay a bounty to any Palestinians who “kill a Jew anyplace on the earth” whereas additionally claiming that Palestinian youngsters are all “being raised as serial killers. He approves of the demolitions of Palestinians’ properties and argues that in Gaza “Israel is doing extra proper now to guard human life” whereas he additionally praises the IDF’s “distinctive ethical method” to warfare.
Kennedy additionally issued an in depth assertion on-line and has turn out to be one of many Jewish state’s most outspoken supporters. He posted on X: “This ignominious, unprovoked, and barbaric assault on Israel have to be met with world condemnation and unequivocal help for the Jewish state’s proper to self-defense. We should present Israel with no matter it must defend itself — now. As President, I’ll make it possible for our coverage is unambiguous in order that the enemies of Israel will suppose lengthy and laborious earlier than trying aggression of any type. I applaud the robust statements of help from the Biden White Home for Israel in her hour of want. Nevertheless, the size of those assaults means it’s seemingly that Israel might want to wage a sustained navy marketing campaign to guard its residents. Statements of help are fantastic, however we should observe by way of with unwavering, resolute, and sensible motion. America should stand by our ally all through this operation and past because it workout routines its sovereign proper to self-defense.”
Kennedy’s lack of ability to separate reality from fiction is obvious in his referral to “Palestinian settlements inside Israel,” when describing Palestinians dwelling in what’s left of their former land that’s now below Israeli occupation and topic to fixed settlement growth, as if the Palestinians are those colonizing the Israelis. Kennedy is now operating as an unbiased however has misplaced a lot of his staffers due to his place on Gaza. Many antiwar Individuals had been initially thrilled when Kennedy introduced that he can be in opposition to Joe Biden on this yr’s primaries and that he’d employed former Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich, an antiwar progressive, to be his marketing campaign supervisor. However Kucinich give up in the midst of October. In November, Kennedy’s discipline group, headed by former California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s spouse Rhonda, additionally give up. In December, his international coverage and veteran’s affairs adviser James R. Webb, Marine Corps veteran of Iraq Struggle II and son of the previous senator from Virginia, additionally submitted his resignation. Webb revealed that his resignation was in disgust over Kennedy’s stance on Israel’s ethnic cleaning of the Palestinians within the Gaza strip and Kennedys’ declare that “collective punishment” of civilians is justified.
One may add that there’s one other attention-grabbing more-or-less unbiased within the race, specifically Jill Stein who can be searching for the nomination of the Inexperienced Get together. She is a real antiwar individual whom I’ve recognized for eight years and he or she has criticized the “infinite warfare machine” in addition to what’s going on in Ukraine and in Gaza, the place she has known as for a right away stop fireplace. Alas, she has no likelihood of getting greater than a pair share factors of the votes forged.
Different fringe candidates embrace Cornel West, an unbiased, and two Democrats who will proceed to seem on the first ballots going forward. They’re Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson. So, there you will have it of us. To paraphrase the immortal Donald Trump, peace on earth is for losers!
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Government Director of the Council for the Nationwide Curiosity, a 501(c)3 tax deductible instructional basis (Federal ID Quantity #52-1739023) that seeks a extra interests-based U.S. international coverage within the Center East. Web site is councilforthenationalinterest.org, tackle is P.O. Field 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its electronic mail is [email protected].
