John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY TOM LUONGO IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“Whose Head Will Roll Over RussiaHoax? Probably Hillary's”
Quite a confused piece by Mr. Luongo.
Yes, he's right about Hillary Clinton's character, but that's about it. Lady Macbeth reincarnated would be not at all an unwarranted characterization, I think.
But no one is going to indict her for anything.
She has immensely powerful friends, and believe me, in America, that counts.
She is a central figure in the power establishment. As is her husband.
And as others have observed in comments, she "knows where all the bodies are buried." Washington is so totally corrupt a place that there are no important figures without ugly stuff to hide.
The FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover enjoyed decades of quiet power over legislators and presidents in Washington, owing to the “private and confidential” files he regularly used to intimidate, often holding little tête-à-têtes to indirectly suggest, never openly threaten, the possibilities.
The article is also wrong about Hillary's responsibility for Russia-gate. All she really did was to jump up on a passing bandwagon, the one whose theme music is about fear and loathing of Russia.
A woman desperate to win, and after failing to win, desperate to find an excuse. How typically American. Trumpian, really.
There was an effort by a number of high officials in Obama’s administration who seem to have dedicated themselves to defeating Trump by fair means or foul. That, incidentally, very much includes the former President himself. Just one more good measure of how thoroughly corrupt Washington is and how lacking in ethics and democratic values.
Of course, we can see the complete lack of ethics daily in America’s dealings abroad, but a good many Americans still naively believe a different set of rules applies to “damned fureigners” than to residents of the home of the brave.
And I cannot understand anyone having any sympathy for Trump, going along with the idea of him as any kind of victim. That’s sickening, actually.
This man has completely handed over American foreign policy to America's worst enemies, the Neocons.
I say America's worst enemies because they are driving the country hard with policies not at all in its long-term interests. Destructive policies, destructive of international institutions and treaties and alliances and laws and civility.
And, of course, the Neocons really are Russia's most hostile American opponents because they want America to dominate the globe, and they see Russia only as an unwelcome barrier in the effort.
Many of the people Trump has willingly surrounded himself are visceral haters of Russia. Of China, too.
They are the very embodiment of American exceptionalism.
This work by Trump is deadly dangerous, far more so than the noisy silliness of “Russia-gate.”
