America travels into madness

A basic tenet of identifying the driving forces behind American policy is a short examination of the root causes of error. Chief among these, and there are so many, is the continuing insistence that Iran has an active nuclear program when all evidence since 2003 runs to the contrary.

Behind this, two tiresome methodologies appear, one being the hunt for non-existent weapons of mass destruction and the second, America’s love for saving “poor little babies” from imaginary poison gas or hapless equally imaginary prisoners from incineration or mass killings.

Error has become “belief,” and a generation of American military leaders and diplomats have enthralled themselves to a cause defunct of purpose, deficient in reason, bereft of moral imperative. This is the military Donald Trump fell in love with. It furnished him with leadership of sufficient ethical ambiguity as to implement a soulless agenda without a second thought. These were trained professionals, the generation of Rumsfeld and Cheney, a nation primed for feudal fascism. This array of deception has for three decades been used against many nations. Our point is simple; Trump was in the occupied lands called 'Israel' and earlier in Saudi Arabia because his corrupt regime is controlled from there in one way or another. His actions, in part aimed at Iran, are based in error in thought and error in execution.

Trump's error also demonstrates something far more sinister, that he is a puppet, a vassal and dreams of being a medieval warlord. His lack of wit, lack of character, his lack of attention and crudeness are wonderfully at home in Saudi Arabia and the occupied lands of Palestine, where such characteristics have defined leadership for generations. On May 21, 2017, American President Donald Trump announced that Saudi Arabia has put together a 55-nation force of 34,000 men to fight terrorism in Syria and Iraq. Trump agreed, without consultation or approval of the US government, to participate in that endeavor and agreed to sell Saudi Arabia, over a period, over one hundred billion dollars in advanced arms previously denied to any foreign country. This, the most corrupt presidency in American history, is playing with disaster, and more than a tinge of unrestrained insanity. Toss in endless Saudi billions and Israel’s “exceptionalism” and a poisonous stew results.

Pushing Trump forward is the lowest rung of what Veterans Today's co-founder Colonel David Hackworth called the Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon, the strutting neo-feudalists that haunt Washington, its corporate backrooms, engaging in anti-government plots, the peddling of tainted souls, all steeped in debauchery and dishonor. They dance on and off the Fox Network, or adorn the polemics of the Institute for the Study of War, issuing the thinly veiled Bolshevik slogans promoted by dozens of cash ridden neocon think tanks.

America’s military establishment has a checkered history fighting terrorism. It lost wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, lest we forget Vietnam and has learned to fight using mercenaries and, as it has operated clandestinely in Iraq and Syria, through the terrorist organizations of Daesh and al Qaeda.

On March 2, 2015, former Marine General Paul Allen explained how he was going to spend $300 million to organize a force against Daesh, trained in Turkey. He said he had 5,500 vetted volunteers, mostly Syrian Christians from the Deir Ezzor region, ready to sign up. Six months later, the money was spent, 150 mercenaries were trained, most from Morocco and upon deployment, all turned over their weapons and joined al Qaeda. Trump’s plan is to build on this success but he is lying. He has been bought and paid for by the Saudi prince he bowed to, and vowed to defend to the death, not his death mind you but of others, many others.

Then again we refocus, plots within plots, to one of the interlocking “grand schemes,” the war to Balkanize Islam itself, as with other political, religious or social struggles, when you peel away the veneer, you find only money and greed. The real money will be made by pushing the war between Sunni and Shia Islam, a key component of Israeli globalist policy. There are over 1.5 billion Muslims in the world with more than 150 million, or 10%, Shia. However, that 10% is in Iran, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, and Bahrain while some of the largest Sunni populations are far afield in Asia and North Africa.

Saudi Arabia doesn’t represent Sunni Islam at all but rather an extremist Wahhabist heresy that feed terrorism. The elites of the Sunni world suffer considerable dismay that their holy sites are controlled by “head chopping” Bedouins who rope women together like cattle taken to market. Why is America and Israel aligned with such a monstrosity? Let’s take a second to look at the huge new arms sale to Saudi Arabia. If possible, Saudis think about military adventurism time and again. However, the impoverished Yemen has proven more than a match for the Saudi military, one of the worst in the world, despite the tens of thousands of mercenaries deployed across the kingdom.

The other scenario involves the US moving in, but not behind the leadership of the least loved commander in chief in American history, no, there is little chance America will enter any kind of military adventurism against the united Iran. The agent for this massive arms sale to the Saudis is Trump son-in-law, Israeli-American Jared Kushner, a highly experienced low income property developer from New Jersey from an organized crime family with a long history of cheating investors and bribing public officials. It keeps getting better. It was Kushner’s wife, Trump’s daughter Ivanka, that decided Syria needed to be punished with a missile attack in retaliation for a so-called “terrorist atrocity” the world later learned was staged by the CIA and actor George Clooney’s Oscar/Nobel Prize winning “White Helmets.”

We then move on to the new “coalition,” an abuse of the term if there ever was one, but no one knows exactly who they are. We know the usurper regime of Israel isn’t officially a member but sets policy in partnership with Saudi Arabia.

We also know that this so-called anti-extremist and anti-terrorist coalition consists of nations who have trafficked the real terrorists to Iraq and Syria. Among those nations are the economic supporters of those groups as well, buying modern weapons for the terrorists and sending in military trainers and planning staff. They are even manning command centers for the Takfiri terrorists inside not only Jordan but in Syria and Iraq as well, serving side by side with Israeli forces against the Baghdad and Damascus governments. Closer examination shows that the terrorists supported by this Saudi coalition that the US has joined are primarily Daesh and al Qaeda. Trump’s new force for peace specifically targets the participants of the Astana peace process and, more importantly, has targeted for overthrow the government in Syria, Russia’s only allies in the Middle East.

It doesn’t take a genius to see what is going on here. The general admission is that America is in free fall with no government at all. The policy changes from the Obama era are all disasters, massive cuts in medical programs, massive increases in waste ridden military expenditures and huge tax giveaways to the rich. Obama’s foreign policy was always enigmatic. Opposition to Russia and support of NATO, policies not generally rooted in reality, were a keystone. Trump promised to change those and open dialog but his uncertain demeanor and rash judgement clouded things.

When Trump talked of dealing with Russia, he meant dealing with organized crime that, under careful examination, knows no borders. Therefore, every deal thus far over Syria is immediately violated and why, to those of the clandestine world, America’s covert support of world terrorism, has sprung into high gear. A constant in Obama policy was keeping both Israel and Saudi Arabia at arm’s length. The failure, of course, was in American participation in Yemen and part of Saudi Arabia’s war on Syria in general.

Obama pushed the 5+1 nuclear agreement through and ended the illegally imposed sanctions on Iran, a huge blow to both Israel and Saudi Arabia in a way. Obama also restricted arms sales to Saudi Arabia, something Trump has just “undone.” What is less known is that, to keep Israel in line, Obama also crippled Israel’s missile defense system by removing its AEGIS component. The vaunted “Iron Dome” is “hot air.” We mention these issues in passing as they present an earlier policy, though never openly embraced, to preserve some American leverage in world events. Trump’s real failure is making deals when the real deal is leaving the table, particularly when at the wrong table. Inept as Trump may well be, among the Likudists in Israel or the Bedouin princes in Saudi Arabia, he may well be what intellect, grace and talent is at the table. Trump is the clown bear in the nest of vipers!

What you heard and read was from an article by Gordon Duff, a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. Gordon Duff is a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today.

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