COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY GILBERT DOCTOREAU IN RUSSIA
INSIDER
“Patience: Trump Is
Waiting For the Right Time to Purge Washington's 'Power Ministries'”
I very much hope the author is right, but I am not at all sure
that he is.
Trump is clearly under attack from elements of the security
establishment.
The endless whining of Democrats and a self-righteous and
irresponsible press, which feels displaced in its privileges, Trump can take
with no trouble. He has an exceptionally strong mental and emotional
constitution and amazing energy for a man of his age.
But the security forces are another matter. The CIA is
loaded with bright psychopaths with access to virtually endless resources,
restrained by little accountability, endowed with a quasi-religious sense of
purpose as though coming from God, and possessing, as with all psychopaths, no
conscience or ethics whatever.
Of course, we have the old-boy networks in the State
Department, too, and those are people who work hand-in-glove with CIA in embassies
abroad. Trump has culled a small number, but there are likely hundreds of
questionable figures in significant positions.
The Democrats and the press - and now I include huge hi-tech
companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon as a new hybrid branch of the press
as well as cooperative partners with CIA - give the weirdos at Langley lots of
contacts and support.
The situation much resembles when an undercover spy abroad
works on building a local network. In this case, there already is in place a
vast and well-resourced network.
If the author's analysis is valid, we must see the $54
billion giveaway to the already-bloated Pentagon as something with which to buy
the military's loyalty as he comes gradually to confront "the enemy
within."
But any such scenario does sound more like a novel from
someone like Robert Ludlum than what usually goes on in Washington. It means
really big fireworks ahead.
But I really am quickly coming to the conclusion Trump is
going to change nothing much worth changing.
America will go right on trying to order around everyone on
the planet, fighting and killing just to change some situations its
establishment doesn't approve of, spending countless billions on a
trouble-making military and security establishment which is itself far more of
a genuine threat to what Americans like to think their country is about than
any imaginable threat from abroad.
Democracy and freedom and human rights cannot, absolutely
cannot, flourish in a vast garrison-security state. You do not get Thomas Paine
in East Germany with the Stasi.
Trump, in my eyes, is coming to resemble Obama redux, only
with a decidedly different tone.
“The swamp” - which very much includes the Pentagon and the
psychopaths in Langley, Virginia, - is far more treacherous than Trump or his
followers ever imagined.
Meanwhile, nothing he has done - outside of his personal war
with the corporate press and stirring up a lot of unhappiness around migrants,
neither of which is of any immediate concern or help to average Americans or to
peace in the world - is much different to what – ugh! - Hillary Clinton might
have done.
More money to the bloated Pentagon.
Threaten Iran.
Threaten China.
Keep up tensions with Russia.
Keep the horror in Syria going.
Give the war criminal leading Israel whatever he wants.
So far, absolutely nothing of consequence for the American
people.
It is all very disheartening, tending to confirm the idea
that America is ungovernable, fat and layered, as it is, with privileged and
unaccountable classes and groups who bend its wealth and influence to serve
only their own interests.
