Monday, September 18, 2017

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JIMMY CARTER IS RIGHT ABOUT NORTH KOREA AND MANY OTHER THINGS - U.S. NEOCON FANATICS COULDN'T CARE LESS - EVENTS THAT COULD ALTER A SICK AND VIOLENT AMERICAN-ISRAELI AXIS



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.