COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
North Korea threatens
to strike US territory of Guam after Trump 'fire and fury' warning
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Response to a reader
who wrote: “It's a good thing they didn't elect Hilary, isn't it? Because Trump's supporters told us she was a
warmonger. Whilst, six months in the job
and Trump has been a real force for world peace. /sarcasm”:
True, but you miss something fundamental.
What Trump has definitively proved - especially after the
Obama experience - is that it just does not matter who is elected as president.
The interests running America bend anyone who is elected to
their purposes, and if they cannot bend them, they break them.
The last election offered a woman who already proved she worshipped
at the throne of American war and empire and had done some real killing, for
example, in Libya, versus an outsider who definitely gave some strong signals
of doing a few important things differently.
He has failed, and badly. The failure is owing both to his
own unexpected weaknesses and the non-stop assault of the American
establishment trying to prevent his campaign signals – about peaceful
cooperation with Russia and about wars in the Middle East - from ever becoming
national policy.
Just like Obama, who, when he ran, seemed a pleasant,
enlightened man, but ended by bombing half a dozen countries, killing over half
a million people, sending millions more fleeing as refugees, and has the great
distinction of having started the world's first industrial-scale extrajudicial
killing operation, putting the old Argentine Junta to shame in the scale of
“disappearing” people.
The only reasonable conclusion about the United States to
draw from these facts is that its barely-democratic, money-drenched political
system is not capable of putting an elected official in real charge.
The military-security-corporate establishment controls the
main direction of American affairs. It functions much like a giant corporate
enterprise, only one armed with a thermonuclear arsenal and served by vast
armies, both uniformed and covert.
Just reflect back on George Bush fils, the first certified moron president. He ran nothing, just
signed papers and made stupid speeches.
Cheney and Rumsfeld - both deeply connected to the
military-security establishment through their international corporate careers -
were the ones deciding which papers to put in front of Bush for his signature.
