COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE ON RUSSIA INSIDER
I Agree With Jimmy
Carter, Talk To North Korea
A couple of weeks ago
I told you the Neocons were about to run amok across the globe because
President Trump cut a deal with them on foreign policy. You know they are in charge because all
pretense of talking to other people is dispensed with.
I don't think Washington's Neocon crowd care a fig for what
anyone thinks of them, including this or any other writer.
Ideologically-driven fanatics are just that, fanatics.
They have given us an extremely dangerous world for the sake
of objectives most people couldn't care less about.
These objectives include America's remaining the preeminent
power on earth, able to dictate its will almost anywhere.
A corollary to this is the preeminence of America's Mideast
colony, aka Israel, in its part of the world. For many, and perhaps most, Neocons,
it is the corollary to which they are fanatically attached, the push for
American dominance everywhere being only a necessary means to that end.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to see this situation ending
any time soon. America's Neocons have used the country's immense economic and
financial power in many international organizations, too. Organizations which
might otherwise strengthen the voices of reason in the world, including the
United Nations.
Just look at the public theft, aggression, non-compliance
with norms, and threats of Israel, and almost no voices are raised – much less
any penalties imposed - in international organizations against them.
The United Nations, for example, was created to oppose
exactly this kind of ugly, dangerous behavior, but its voice has been
all-but-silenced by behind-the-scenes threats and bribes.
What Trump's election has proved, and with blinding clarity,
is that there is no simple political path to eliminating their influence.
Hillary Clinton was completely an ally and beneficiary of the Neocons, as is
virtually every Congressional leader, and I think an awful lot of people
supported Trump in the hope of some progress being made against their current
tyranny.
But Trump is a complete failure, having proved himself
pretty much a coward in the face of an organized opposition. Indeed, his
behavior today in most aspects of foreign policy tells us clearly that they
have effectively recruited him to serve their goals.
He is much like some dumb kid who has been recruited to go
join ISIS, and there is more truth than exaggeration in that comparison since
we know ISIS and other terrorists in Syria were the creations of the United
States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia working together towards Neocon goals.
I am afraid they are entrenched. Gradual changes in the
American public's attitudes towards the current situation might change things,
but that is an extremely difficult thing to achieve since all of America's
corporate press works without fail towards the Neocon goals.
We have seen examples of American public opinion turnaround,
accompanied by decisive change in government policy, before, especially that
which occurred with regard to Apartheid South Africa, a state long viewed by
Washington’s establishment as a bulwark against “international communism,” but
public opinion came to be convinced about the horrors of South Africa, and
government priorities changed.
Israel is a much more difficult proposition since it has an
immensely well-established lobby in America, has the complete sympathy of the
press, and has that whole vague Biblical set of associations affecting a
country which still has a lot of backwardness in religion from tent preachers
to televangelists.
Of course, modern Israel has no connection with Biblical
Israel, any more than modern Turkey has any connection to ancient Troy or
modern Lebanon has to do with ancient Phoenicians. The residents are in fact an
entirely different people – migrants from America and Europe who are of central
and eastern European origin (the Ashkenazi), rather than descendants of ancient
Hebrews.
Of course, they practice the same religion, but the average
religious American has no idea of the differences and distinctions. They also
have no idea of what a secular, unreligious society much of modern Israel is. There
is only the emotional, unanalytical attachment to Biblical notions and
mysteries.
And, for American politicians, given America’s dedication to
the corrupt system of virtually unlimited money in financing elections, there
is an organized and reliable source to turn to for portions of those funds in
the Israel Lobby.
Realistically, only the ongoing growth in the relative
strength of the BRICS countries, and the possible turn to more self-reliance in
the EU, is likely to shake the hold of the Neocons in America. That plus the
gradual and inevitable loss of the dollar’s position as the world reserve
currency, a status which allows American authorities to abuse finances in a way
they never could otherwise and allows them many routes to bribe and threaten
other states, will do the job of ending American pretentions.
And there is the possibility of a disastrous major financial
melt-down in America which might quickly alter its status and some balance of
power, but that is, of course, something terrible which will hurt everyone.
