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Paul Craig Roberts: Murder Is Washington’s Foreign Policy
Washington has a long history of massacring people, for example, the destruction of the Plains Indians by the Union war criminals Sherman and Sheridan and the atomic bombs dropped on Japanese civilian populations, but Washington has progressed from periodic massacres to fulltime massacring. From the Clinton regime forward, massacre of civilians has become a defining characteristic of the United States of America.
Washington is responsible for the destruction of Yugoslavia and Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, and part of Syria. Washington has enabled Saudi Arabia’s attack on Yemen, Ukraine’s attack on its former Russian provinces, and Israel’s destruction of Palestine and the Palestinian people.
The American state’s murderous rampage through the Middle East and North Africa was enabled by the Europeans who provided diplomatic and military cover for Washington’s crimes. Today the Europeans are suffering the consequences as they are over-run by millions of refugees from Washington’s wars. The German women who are raped by the refugees can blame their chancellor, a Washington puppet, for enabling the carnage from which refugees flee to Europe.
In the article below Mattea Kramer points out that Washington has added to its crimes the mass murder of civilians with drones and missile strikes on weddings, funerals, children’s soccer games, medical centers and people’s homes. Nothing can better illustrate the absence of moral integrity and moral conscience of the American state and the population that tolerates it than the cavalier disregard of the thousands of murdered innocents as “collateral damage.”
If there is any outcry from Washington’s European, Canadian, Australian, and Japanese vassals, it is too muted to be heard in the US.
As Kramer points out, American presidential hopefuls are competing on the basis of who will commit the worst war crimes. A leading candidate has endorsed torture, despite its prohibition under US and international law. The candidate proclaims that “torture works” — as if that is a justification — despite the fact that experts know that it does not work. Almost everyone being tortured will say anything in order to stop the torture. Most of those tortured in the “war on terror” have proven to have been innocents. They don’t know the answers to the questions even if they were prepared to give truthful answers. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn relates that Soviet dissidents likely to be picked up and tortured by the Soviet secret police would memorize names on gravestones in order to comply with demands for the names of their accomplices. In this way, torture victims could comply with demands without endangering innocents.
Washington’s use of invasion, bombings, and murder by drone as its principle weapon against terrorists is mindless. It shows a government devoid of all intelligence, focused on killing alone. Even a fool understands that violence creates terrorists. Washington hasn’t even the intelligence of fools.
The American state now subjects US citizens to execution without due process of law despite the strict prohibition by the US Constitution. Washington’s lawlessness toward others now extends to the American people themselves.
The only possible conclusion is that under Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama the US government has become an unaccountable, lawless, criminal organization and is a danger to the entire world and its own citizens.
30 Comments on "Paul Craig Roberts: Murder Is Washington’s Foreign Policy"
adam c18 on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 7:30 am
It is interesting that so much value is placed by Americans on their own domestic ‘liberty’ (which usually involves arming themselves to the teeth with lethal weapons) , yet they have an utter disregard for the ‘liberty’ of the millions they see as ‘collateral damage’ when they are killed, maimed or reduced to homeless refugees in America’s desire to bring democracy the world.
sidzepp on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 8:05 am
And it will continue with the coronation of Queen Hillary, for as long as the people who control the military industrial complex and their lack of anything close to moral principles continue to pull the strings of the puppettitions.
eugene on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 8:28 am
I believe it will continue regardless of who is elected. This is an American tradition not this or that president. While we blame “the government” as always, it is deep in the American psyche. It is us not them. Long conversation with another old vet last night about this exact topic.
sidzepp on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 8:39 am
During the Vietnam era there was a strong consciousness that emerged about the atrocities of war and our foreign policy. Unfortunately, most of the anger was directed at the soldiers, most of them draftees. What began to develop after the first Gulf war was a movement of “support the troops” and the assumption became “if you oppose the war, you are against our troops!” The government has effectively deflected efforts to question our foreign policy and the indiscriminate massacres of thousands of civilians as an attack on our troops.
If we are to have a foreign policy it should be to assist nations in developing rather than tearing their societies down.
dooma on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 8:57 am
And to think you can get KFC home delivered in Ho Chi Minh city.
If military attacks fail, try heart attacks.
Richard Ralph Roehl on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 9:02 am
Perhaps the time has come for sane Americans to encourage the Russians and the Chinese to coordinate a first strike nuclear attack on the United States in a desperate bid to save humanity.
penury on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 9:26 am
You need to understand,since 1776 the U.S. has not been involved in war (if you include the Am. Indians) for 24 years and those have not been at a time. As General Butler said :the business of “America is War.” Imagine the economy of this country if peace were to break out.
ennui2 on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 9:35 am
Tinfoiler
“Roberts has also been critical of mainstream positions on terrorist attacks, proposing that the Boston Marathon Bombing and November 2015 Paris attacks may have been false flag operations perpetrated by Western governments.”
Ralph on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 10:01 am
The Boston Marathon Bombing killed 2 people. More USians than that died from murder, traffic accidents, and other violent deaths in the time it took me to write this comment.
Ralph on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 10:09 am
OK The Boston Marathon Bombing killed 3 people and 2 police in the following hunt.
In the US there is one violent death every 5 minutes.
Boat on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 10:13 am
” :the business of “America is War.”
Any violence against capitalism and the flow of goods invites war. Get over it. War supporting fair trade is a noble endeavor. Eventually all the world will have simiiular laws. Thank the US for leading the effort. Unless climate change kills us off first.
twocats on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 10:28 am
I believe it will continue regardless of who is elected. This is an American tradition not this or that president. While we blame “the government” as always, it is deep in the American psyche. It is us not them. Long conversation with another old vet last night about this exact topic. [eugene]
You got Mitt Romney coming out of the crypt to attack Donald Trump, and the DNC/Media have driven about twenty stakes into the heart of Sanders, yet It Lives! (media blackout, suddenly black people all across the country cursing at him, etc).
Normally I agree with you, and normally these fringe candidates (Ron Paul, Dennis Kusinich) are intended to re-engage a disenfranchised, disillusioned population so that they come out and vote. Classic bait and switch.
But Trump and Sanders are both insurgent candidates. I’m not saying they can make any difference, but if you don’t think that the ruling elite is terrified of either of these candidates winning… you aren’t allowing yourself to enjoy one of the greatest shit-shows since Watergate.
sidzepp on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 10:36 am
Trump is probably the Peace candidate. He will build hotels and casinos all over the world. The Russian reacquisition of Crimea was probably done so Drumpf could start his new empire there, with Putin as CEO.
Banal on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 10:37 am
Luckily, if someone aims to make “us” pay for these “transgressions”, they are running out of time as the sands of time sink in the hourglass and energy resources become scarcer and scarcer.
Why? Because without energy resources it becomes virtually impossible to move large numbers of people long distances.
Once economic scarcity hits again we’ll start having rational politicians instead of insane globalist leftism currently plaguing the west. At its inherent core, politics in general is intrinsically “tribal”.
People often forget that it is “The tribe” that gives you greater safety in a hostile world. And we have morons in positions of power that forget this basic tenant of politics that does not change as technology and the rest of the world does.
Luckily, the West will end up being saved by the one commodity that its economy is addicted to given the fact that mass migration becomes virtually impossible once you remove fuels from the equation. So things will start getting fixed once you remove the capability to import people from overseas for private benefit at the expense of the publics security and paycheck.
Then all we have to worry about in international politics are what the “Tribe” known as the “Mexicans” are doing, but there is so much utter incompetence in defense and intelligence establishment when it comes to understanding how politics and “war” (From which war is fundamentally generated) are interrelated, that we may be in a poor position going forward due to the incapacity of government to hedge against hybrid threats that arise out of intrinsic international politics.
penury on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 10:40 am
Boat there are a group of people who use your type of comments to outline the stupidity of the average reader. However, after reading your comments I am forced to conclude that satire is not your forte so you REALLY are that stupid.
Boat on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 10:51 am
penury,
There is reason the US is the most powerfull and successful large country in the history of the world. We do think different.
ennui2 on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 2:23 pm
“The Boston Marathon Bombing killed 2 people.”
He’s still a tinfoiler.
Boat on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 3:00 pm
If you look at past wars, famines, death by disease and compare the numbers with populations at the time of the events one would have to surmise these are great times to be alive.
Energy Investor on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 3:41 pm
Just remember the Chinese Communist party has taken over the media and our Russian and Chinese friends have many destructive tools in their arsenal. What is happening in the South China Sea is worrying everyone in Australasia…http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/03/beijing-south-china-sea/
So which bully is the lesser evil?
Apneaman on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 4:29 pm
Boat great times to be alive for who? The 47 million on food stamps? The poisoned kids in Flint? The hundreds of millions on factory wage slaves who only get 1 piss break a day? The hundred of millions of addicts? The too many to count who can’t take modernity with out anti depressants, anti anxiety or anti psoc tics? You don’t have a fucking clue what you are saying – just repeating econ 101 propaganda. You get your history from them and they make half or more of it up to keep retards like you from asking questions. How many well researched history books have you read from other eres and places boat? I’m guessing a big fucking zero. Maybe you watch the history channel and think it’s accurate? Again, you don’t have a fucking clue because to don’t read – you parrott.
Malthusian Delusions
“This idea of all of human history over many thousands of years and among varied locations being one long undifferentiated mass of suffering, oppression and misery, regardless of time and place, however, is one that I think ignores an awful lot.
While oppression, misery and suffering were very real in ancient times in many places, to dismiss all of human history as simply this is not only ignorant, it is just plain wrong. People in ancient times were not always miserable and suffering; in many, very real areas of life, they were far better off than people today.
People were not at the mercy of the machine; they worked outdoors in line with the seasons. They were embedded in webs of relationships with other people, as opposed to the alienated, urbanized existence we experience today. Most business was conducted face-to-face. They ate fresh, locally-grown food, often cultivated themselves, instead of the highly processed, nutritionally-barren food of today. We know that today’s crushing work schedules and artificial light wreak havoc on the body’s circadian rhythms, leading to a whole host of maladies.
People did physical work, and yes, that could break down the body, but overall it ensured that people were healthier, both physically and mentally (no need for gyms). Chronic diseases, which are epidemic today–asthma, diabetes, autism, obesity–existed but were rather rare (yes, that includes cancer, too). People didn’t get sick from breathing the air. The constant fear of your job going away, the constant jumping through educational and licensing hoops just to keep your job, and the “hustling existence” were unknown. Workers were not subject to the tyrannical “discipline” of modern labor. You generally worked alongside friends and family members with whom you broke bread, and drinking on the job was not a problem. The musical chairs game where you are constantly trying to get a leg up on the competition by working harder or trying to get more education than the next guy to get one of the constantly shrinking pool of jobs was not in evidence either.”
http://hipcrime.blogspot.ca/2016/03/malthusian-delusions.html?m=1
Boat on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 5:02 pm
apeman,
You dream of the past and some good o’l days. I do not fear the future like you. Exciting times are ahead for the newest generation. Much better times than say China who lost millions every few years to starvation.
This is a list of famines in China. Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1828 famines in China, or one nearly every year in one province or another. However, the famines varied greatly in severity.[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines_in_China
GregT on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 6:31 pm
@Boat,
“Exciting times are ahead for the newest generation.”
What Apnea said above;
“You don’t have a fucking clue what you are saying”
makati1 on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 7:07 pm
Most adults in the Us are either insane, on drugs, or just plain stupid.
Never in history has a country deserved to be taken down in any manner possible by the rest of the world.
China and Russia are doing it slowly, but if the US keeps hitting that hornet’s nest with their stick, it may happen tomorrow. (Cut to mushroom cloud on the horizon.)
The sooner the better for the rest of the world. A meddling America needs it’s comeuppance. Are YOU prepared for that day?
Uncle Sam on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 7:35 pm
@Makati — You’re forgetting Rule # 1: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. You’ll be mining garbage at the Manila public dump if you lose your US Social Security checks. “Are you prepared for that day.” LOL.
GregT on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 8:53 pm
@Uncle Sam
Makati is not likely to be paid back all of the money that his government confiscated from him. If you are ten or more years younger than Makati, you most assuredly will not. Consider it stolen.
It’s what happens when people forget that governments are supposed to represent the people. LOL
makati1 on Mon, 7th Mar 2016 9:46 pm
Uncle Sam. I am prepared for that day. are you? I am using that returned income to build my security here. And, no, I have NOT gotten all of it back yet, by my calculations. I probably never will, as GregT said. If you are not already retired, you will never see even a majority of your ‘contributions’. Maybe none.
theedrich on Tue, 8th Mar 2016 1:51 am
Around the start of the second Iraq war, George W. Bush once gave an interesting summary on the radio of why he was doing what he was doing. In effect, he said that, before WW II, everyone thought the Germans and Japanese were incapable of democracy — but now look at them, both nations, wonderful examples of democracy! In other words, if you carpet-bomb and nuke civilian cities, you make more democracy (subservient to the U.S., of course). He followed these thoughts up with, if memory serves, the immortal words, “We’re trying to change the world!”
Although the democracy bit seems to have gone somewhat amiss in Allahland, there is no question that he and his Negroid successor have definitely changed the world.
techkno on Tue, 8th Mar 2016 3:50 am
I share the concerns of many on this blog. I was 18 during the Vietnam military adventure and did not serve. I knew that it was indefensible. 45 years later I have seen the U.S. government perpetrate far too many crimes, in part due to the military – industrial – congressional complex. It must stop.
The Green Party of The United States has an analysis that can lead this country out of the abyss.
Ten Key Values
1. Grassroots Democracy
2. Social Justice and Equal Opportunity
3. Ecological Wisdom
4. Non-Violence
5. Decentralization
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7. Feminism and Gender Equity
8. Respect for Diversity
9. Personal and Global Responsibility
10. Future Focus and Sustainability
Vote for Jill Stein for President.
IFuckYouOver on Tue, 8th Mar 2016 4:02 am
Women are inferior, and equality is total bullshit. Only loser believe that shit.
Arthur Schopenhauer and ancient generation used to understand better what women are and what their purpose was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9LSW4aK3cE
Practicalmaina on Tue, 8th Mar 2016 10:37 am
Ifuckyouover, I don’t think you are worthy of being a glory hole cum dumpster, nevermind theorizing about gender roles in a successful society.