COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY OWEN JONES IN THE GUARDIAN
Britain will greet
Trump [on his upcoming visit] with our biggest ever carnival against hatred
"biggest ever
carnival against hatred'?
That's a rather bizarre turn of phrase.
But in addition, what I see in Trump is not so much hatred
as ignorance and arrogance, the same qualities which you will find in almost
every leading American political figure.
Pelosi? Hillary? McCain? Lieberman? Gingrich? Schumer?
Trump alone cannot make the things happening in America
happen, except for all the bellowing noise he is good at generating.
America is on a world-wide tear for dominance.
It is frightening almost like nothing in my lifetime.
To call it dangerous is an understatement.
But to put all the responsibility on Trump, big mouth that
he is, is foolish in the extreme.
A bit like saying if you just get rid of the big bad wolf,
everything will just be fine again.
Well, no, it won't.
It was the boyishly-smiling Obama (assisted part of his term
by Hillary) who was bombing someone every day of his eight years in office. He
killed at least half a million and created millions of refugees.
Do you think the near-destabilization of Europe with
refugees was an accomplishment? What about the brutal ending to a government in
Libya which gave its people free education, improved infrastructure, clean
water, and peace? Today, the results of Obama’s handiwork are blood-drenched
chaos.
It was the same boyishly-smiling man (assisted greatly by
Joe Biden) who instituted the hellish program of extralegal killings on a grand
scale, putting to shame the amateur efforts of the old Argentine Junta.
Imagine, a country claiming to support democratic and human rights and rule of
law creating a huge killing machine?
It was the same boyishly-smiling Obama who instituted a coup
in Ukraine against an elected government just to annoy and threaten Russia.
Again, it was the same boyishly-smiling Obama who used
Russia's measured and reasonable response to the coup to run NATO tanks and
planes right up against Russia's borders. Are we more secure now, or less?
And, it was that same boyishly-smiling charmer who talked
about "a pivot to Asia", a phrase which meant the beginning of the
same kind antagonism and hostility towards China as Russia.
No, I don’t like Trump. He is an embarrassment and a failure.
But as eight years of Obama showed, with eight years of Bush before that,
America has no leadership worthy of the title. It is an imperial monstrosity which
wears a smile while it destroys and demands its way in everything.
Trump is just the latest message-carrier from the beast, one
who happens to speak in ridiculous and less-than-rational terms (much like
Bush, actually), but if you think you change anything with “a carnival against
hatred” you delude only yourself.
