The Hypocrisy Of The Warmongers And The Part-Time Antiwar Brigade
The bloody carnage of the last 16 years across N. Africa, the Levant, through Iraq to the borders of India has brought misery to hundreds of millions. The recent war crimes in Syria at the summit of the crimes committed.
The Global arms trade supplying both sides for profit.
Torture pardoned.
Regime change by various nefarious means.
The bombing of hospitals.
The use of banned weapons.
The crime that is pre-emptive war.
The murder of innocents.
All pardoned/ignored by the side committing them, only when the other side does this, be it nation, or even worse political affiliation is it condemned. It is not as if the US is innocent by any stretch of the imagination but with the cover of hypocritical thinking are once again preparing to take unilateral military action over war crimes.
Let me be clear, every war crime, no matter who commits it should be punished. Pardoning a war crime is as bad as committing one, even if one ignores the fact that war is a crime against humanity in itself.
This tit for tat bullshit needs to end, at some point the major powers will be involved in direct major conflict, even if supposedly accidental. How many times were warnings that the next world war would be started in the Middle-East before we started to try an make it actually happen? Some believe it is already under way, I can certainly foresee it spiralling rapidly out of control.
The causes of terrorism have been lost in the carnage and jingoism, now it has become an hypocrisy based upon national/political affiliation that determines the perceived right or wrong for "more war". The solution to a crime is to commit a crime, more war to end war. State sponsored terrorism is all around us, we just refuse to label it as such.
We are good at declaring war [often without even saying so re: AUMF, isn't about time we decided to actually treat/resolve the problems? We are even better at making up excuses and issuing pardons after the fact. Our own leading war criminals are doing very well indeed. The carnage however continues without cease or respite. We refuse to deal with the problems until it's too late, then resort to weapons to resolve the fallout, will this be the same "solution" for Global Warming? Ignore it until we can propose bombing it?
Bomb, bomb, bomb.
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Double standards and hypocrisy
are nauseating. So is finger-pointing, when used to distract from the reality that neither Republicans nor Democrats are worthy of our tax dollars, let alone our idolatry.
Politics is not some game that is between the two of them. Politics should be about us and who is best to and for us, full stop. I don't mean which party provides the most giveaways. I mean which party uses our money to invest in and improve our country (which is us). Without its population, America is not a country. It's just a whole lot of real estate, some of it stunning.
I wont have anything to do with either party or their partisans
I have been more than patient hoping that any of them would change.
You're getting what was promised.
What a novel approach. We need to look forward to more of the same. It's the only truth bho actually spoke.
Look forward to more war criminality.
More abuse.
More bombed hospitals.
More banned weapons.
More war.
They don't count the innocents unless it's to say "Enemy Sympathizers" or "Collateral Damage".
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
That one phrase from Obama pretty much poisoned
my whole view of him from that moment onwards.
Politician Obama to English translation:
I've already been continuing the same things my friends on the looney left call "war crimes." In fact, even before 911, Bill Clinton and Poppy used "extraordinary rendition," which is offshoring torture. And, as we all know, "what goes around comes around." So, not only will I not prosecute Bush the Lesser, but I will use the muscle of the United States to make sure no one else sends him to the Hague. (Word to cowboy judges in Spain.)
"Bomb, Bomb, Bomb"
Anytime I see the word bomb repeated several times, I think of John McCain and his reference to the Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann".
The problem
is the quest to rule the world. Put simply, that's it, that why all this is happening. It's about power, always been about power, and greed. But in the end, the power satisfies the greed.
That's what needs to be confronted for this country and the planet.
Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul spoke up against ruling the world
and were both defenestrated by their respective parties for their trouble.
Like clockwork, whenever Kucinich and Paul were given their
allotted 30 second spot in the presidential debates, their stances, especially as anti-war/imperialism stalwarts and other progressive views, would be heavily applauded.
Notwithstanding the ultimate infamous Ron Paul moment in which he suggested people with medical conditions who couldn't afford hospital care should basically pull themselves up by their bootstraps, you know, like, asking the community to kick in to help with the costs.
I find Libertarians repulsive overall, some of the biggest phonies there are.
But you have to give it to them. These two outlier congressmen consistently got the biggest applause from the audience. Thing is they were inverse to each other. Maybe 15% of Paul's policies were good, whereas Kucinich was right about 85% of the time.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Repulsive?
I'm sure libertarians find progressive policy equally repulsive. Unfortunately for both parties, they need to figure out how to form a coalition when necessary to prevent the establishment from starting a world war. This isn't about left and right, this is establishment vs the people. The establishment owns the parties, how do you plan to fight that when the people on the left and right are arguing over the reason they don't want war? If libertarians don't want war because it's expensive, do you really want to waste time trying to convince them they shouldn't want it for humanitarian reasons? Does the motivation really matter?
When you have people like Mike Cernovich-otherwise detested by the left-sowing the seeds of discontent against Trump's new hawkish outlook, do you really want to keep treating him as the enemy? Where does that get you?
DP
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This Just In
Hey Folks, we are against War*
*Restrictions may apply
*Offer only valid when opposing political party is in office, but not guaranteed.
*We oppose "real" war. Spreading democracy, humanitarian wars, humanitarian interventions, or regime changes are acceptable, as long as our party is the one doing as such.
Right on.
I think this is another reason why it's a waste of time attempting to "take over" or "wrest control of" either of the two private clubs that maintain the current system. The people on either side who want a sane and humane foreign policy simply can't or won't work with their counterparts on the other side because of all the other issues that each side has. There will never be a partisan peace movement in the US. A sane and humane foreign policy will never come from either side of the duopoly.
@PhilK After each new (false)
After each new (false) revelation concerning Syria I like to go to Ron Paul's site to get a little sanity view on the situation...
Peace
FN
"Democracy is technique and the ability of power not to be understood as oppressor. Capitalism is the boss and democracy is its spokesperson." Peace - FN
tiny hands press conference
He expressed outrage at the Syrian deaths due to poison gas. He suggests it changes his whole approach to Syria and Assad.
How sad he didn't express the same outrage and remorse for the 200 something civilians we killed in Mosul last week. If someone else kills folks it is horrendous, but if it is our doing it is for democracy (which of course means capitalism and corporatism).
Around the world the US is viewed as the perpetrator. So sad we don't look in the mirror.
That truth is that the US is the biggest war-monger the world has ever known.
http://warisacrime.org/content/us-worlds-biggest-war-monger
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Every person that votes for politicians of the democratic and
republican party is aiding and abetting imperialism and war crimes. Both parties have made it very clear what they're about. I'm sorry to offend anyone, but that's just got to be the way is.
If you don't come to democracy,
democracy will come to you.
Laos must be the most democratic country in the world. This bombing was a gift from a democratic president.
Laos continues to benefit from US democracy promotion to this very day. 20,000 Laotians, the majority women and children, have been killed or maimed since the end of the Vietnam war.
Obama offered $80 million dollars to harvest the bombs. That is less than one week's cost to sow the bombs.
The United States of Amnesia, destroying the world one bomb at a time. Maybe if the bombs started falling on American soil people would understand what their government has been doing to other countries for decades.
I agree and tend to think that's the
only way America ever really wakes the hell up. But even then, I imagine a large segment would find that someone else is ultimately at fault there - surely it can't be blowback from all the horrors we've unleashed on all those other, lesser countries? No way, USA, USA, USA! Now where is the rest of the world and why won't they ride to America's rescue? God, they are SO ungrateful for all the wonderful gifts America has bestowed on them!
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Part time anti war brigade
I am assuming that you mean by part time anti war brigade to be the Dems who are anti war only IF a Republican is in the White House? I think and hope so.
Dedicated small part time Peace vigils such as the one I was involved in see ourselves as guardians of Peace regardless of who is in charge. However, the original founders, well before I joined, did say that participation dropped off precipitously after Obama was elected. Being anti war should never stop simply because of a change in administration.
I am still shocked that the US has been allowed to get away with gross war crimes all these years. What has been done by our government and in our names should be offensive to any sentient human being. Good essay!
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Exactly what I meant.
This is Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s legacy:
Libya no longer exists
(Long article in German by Tom Stevenson, in the German edition of Le Monde Diplomatique)
Well said, LF.
We must not continue to let the war fiends run their scam on humanity. We have people on all sides cheering for war. People are being conned by the cheapest bullshit. Consent is manufactured, and we lie down for it, and people die. Them durned terrorists. We'd have to be morons not to stop supporting this shit.