America Totally Discredited: If Americans keep believing the Government’s lies, they have no Future
A foolish President Obama and moronic Secretary of State Kerry have handed the United
States government its worst diplomatic defeat in history and destroyed
the credibility of the Office of the President, the Department of State,
and the entire executive branch.
Intoxicated
with hubris from past successful lies and deceptions used to destroy
Iraq and Libya, Obama thought the US “superpower,” the “exceptional” and
“indispensable” country, could pull it off again, this time in Syria.
But
the rest of the world has learned to avoid Washington’s rush to war
when there is no evidence. A foolish Obama was pushed far out on the
limb by an incompetent and untrustworthy National Security Advisor,
Susan Rice, and the pack of neoconservatives that support her, and the British Parliament cut the limb off.
What kind of fool would put himself in that vulnerable position?
Now Obama stands alone, isolated, trying to back away from his threat to attack without
authorization from anyone–not from the UN, not from NATO, not from
Congress, who he ignored–a sovereign country. Under the Nuremberg
Standard military aggression is a war crime. Washington has until now
got away with its war crimes by cloaking them in UN or NATO approval.
Despite these “approvals,” they remain war crimes.
But
his National Security Advisor and the neocon warmongers are telling him
that he must prove that he is a Real Man who can stand alone and commit
war crimes all by himself without orchestrated cover from the UN or
NATO or a cowardly US Congress. It is up to Obama, they insist, to
establish for all time that the President of the United States is above
all law. He, and he alone is the “decider,” the Caesar, who determines
what is permissible. The Caesar of the “sole superpower” must now
assert his authority over all law or Washington’s hegemony over the
world is lost.
As
I noted in an earlier column today, if Obama goes it alone, he will be
harassed for the rest of his life as a war criminal who dares not leave
the US. Indeed, a looming economic collapse could so alter the power
and attitude of the United States that Obama could find himself brought
to justice for his war crimes.
Regardless,
the United States government has lost its credibility throughout the
world and will never regain it, unless the Bush and Obama regimes are
arrested and put on trial for their war crimes.
Obama’s
destruction of US credibility goes far beyond diplomacy. It is likely
that this autumn or winter, and almost certainly in 2014, the US will
face severe economic crisis.
The
long-term abuse of the US dollar’s reserve currency role by the Federal
Reserve and US Treasury, the never-ending issuance of new debt and
printing of dollars to finance it, the focus of US economic policy on
bailing out the “banks too big to fail” regardless of the adverse impact
on domestic and world economies and holders of US Treasury debt, the
awaiting political crisis of the unresolved deficit and debt ceiling
limit that will greet Congress’ return to Washington in September,
collapsing job opportunities and a sinking economy all together present
the government in Washington with a crisis that is too large for the
available intelligence, knowledge, and courage to master.
When
the proverbial hits the fan, the incompetent and corrupt Federal
Reserve and the incompetent and corrupt US Treasury will have no more
credibility than Obama and John Kerry.
The
rest of the world–especially Washington’s bullied NATO puppet
states–will take great delight in the discomfort of “the world’s sole
superpower” that has been running on hubris ever since the Soviet
collapse.
The
world is not going to bail out Washington, now universally hated, with
currency swaps, more loans, and foreign aid. Americans are going to pay
heavily for their negligence, their inattention, their unconcern, and
their ignorant belief that nothing can go wrong for them and that
anything that does is temporary.
Two
decades of jobs offshoring has left the US with a third world labor
force employed in lowly paid domestic nontradable services, a workforce
comparable to India’s of 40 years ago. Already the “world’s sole
superpower” is afflicted with a large percentage of its population
dependent on government welfare for survival. As the economy closes
down, the government’s ability to meet the rising demands of survival
diminishes. The rich will demand that the poor be sacrificed in the
interest of the rich. And the political parties will comply.
Is
this the reason that Homeland Security, a Nazi Gestapo institution, now
has a large and growing para-military force equipped with tanks,
drones, and billions of rounds of ammunition?
How
long will it be before American citizens are shot down in their streets
by “their” government as occurs frequently in Washington’s close allies
in Egypt, Turkey, Bahrain?
Americans
have neglected the requirements of liberty. Americans are so patriotic
and so gullible that all the government has to do is to wrap itself in
the flag, and the people, or too many of them, believe whatever lie the
government tells. And the gullible people will defend the government’s
lie to their death, indeed, to the death of the entire world.
If Americans keep believing
the government’s lies, they have no future. If truth be known,
Americans have already lost a livable future. The neocons’ “American
Century” is over before it begun.
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