Fresh off of his pledge to see the US continue its global military adventurism, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is in the Persian Gulf delivering speeches “reassuring” people of America’s continued military belligerence.
In one such speech, delivered just 120 miles off the coast of Iran, Hagel told troops aboard the USS Ponce that the Untied States had not changed its military position toward Iran and could still attack them at any time.
Hagel went on to claim the administration understands “the dangers that Iran represents,” and termed the P5+1 deal with Iran a “difficult engagement,” and one that needed to be backed by the constant threat of American attack.
After decades of building up hawkish sentiment toward Iran region-wide, the US is finding it difficult to placate allies in the Middle East about the Iran deal, and has repeatedly resorted to talking up the prospect of just ditching the diplomacy half-done and starting a war in an effort to convince those allies that the US remains just as hostile as ever.
Hagel is planning several more stops in his visit to the Gulf states, and is likely to make similar comments throughout, insisting that despite all of the very logical reasons that US foreign policy should change, it just plain won’t.
The sweet smell of power – what politicien can resist it for reasons of integrity and the general wellfare? Hagel is no different from all the others running the Empire that has its reasons, reasons that have nothing to do with a democracy.
All is secret, all is hidden from the gulliable public that die and pay the bills.
The sweet smell of power – what politicien can resist it for reasons of integrity and the general wellfare? Hagel is no different from all the others running the Empire that has its reasons, reasons that have nothing to do with a democracy.
All is secret, all is hidden from the gullible public who die and pay the bills.
Hagel just showed how committed to democracy he is: after the poll showed that a majority of US citizens want the USA to mind its own business, Hagel flat out said, No. We're not gonna do that.
But…
USA democracy USA democracy USA democracy
Tell that to your commanders moron, you will be shot on site.
Can't recall seeing or hearing Hagel putting in his two cents when they claimed that Syria cross the "Red Line," by using chemical gas on its own people. Wonder what his motives are for reassuring gulf states that the US could still attack Iran at any time.?
Hagel follows orders. He serves "at the pleasure of the President". If he does something, or doesn't do something, its not him, its Obama. So, its Obama's motives you should be questioning, especially as you see Kerry also delivering the same message.
Shut up war criminal. You have been exposed all over the world. The world hates you.
When all is said and done it comes down to who needs a market for its military sales except those rulers who got nothing to sell except oil. Its disheartening to hear the Secretary of Defense of a major power ie USA talk like a Bibi.
Audience: israel.
The USA has already been complicit in killing, conservatively, 1,025,300 Iranians, many with chemical weapons.
That's not enough for the monster USA and its Axis of Evil. It will kill until Iran is a slave again, and then keep killing to make sure Iran doesn't get any big ideas about overthrowing another US dictator.
What? Are people not pleased?
According to Raimondo, the appointment of Hagel should please everyone who wants "a foreign policy that puts America first, second, and third".
Well, this is what it is, (and has been right along).
That pro-Hagel exuberance stemmed from the error of imagining the US to be a peaceful nation led astray by Israel aficionados.
Anyone who believes US policy is not intrinsically driven by corporate leaders to control markets, secure (foreign) resources, and monopolize finances is prone to that error. Hence, they will typically conclude that militarist US policy must be a "mistake" made by politicians ignorant of the way the established US economy works and profits.
Iran has been under ever increasing US sanctions and threats of attack since the 1979 revolution. Thirty four years later, the regime has not changed. Yet hawks in Congress, the media, and Tel Aviv keep hoping that, despite all evidence to the contrary, more sanctions and threats will work to rouse the people of Iran to overthrow their leaders. Einstein said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again hoping for different results."
Iran has been under ever increasing US sanctions and threats of attack since the 1979 revolution. Thirty four years later, the regime has not changed. Yet hawks in Congress, the media, and Tel Aviv keep hoping that, despite all evidence to the contrary, more sanctions and threats will work to rouse the people of Iran to overthrow their leaders. Einstein said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again hoping for different results."
If we lived in a democracy, removing Hagel from the "defense" department would be an option "still on the table". After all, in a democracy, its supposed to work as a government that implements the will and wishes of the people, and its very, very clear the American people don't want another war and approve of this deal with Iran as a way of de-escalating and trying to remove the risk of yet another useless and unwanted war.
And … one would think Hagel would be smart enough to realize that a military that just got driven out by the weaker "powers" or Iraq and Afghanistan shouldn't even be thinking about trying to take on a stronger and more unified Iranl
Another Saudi atrocity in Syria in the making: Al-Mafraq in Jordan, where most terrorist enablers are located, telling select leaders of ISIS and other groups such as the "Ahraar Al-Shaam Brigade", Jabhat Al-Nusra and "Tahreer Al-Shaam Brigade" to attack Saydnaayaa and "kill all its inhabitants". (Syrian Perspective)
Would nuclear explosions be detectable after say 500,000 or 0ne million years? The Mahabharata is said to inform of planes, nuclear weapons, etc. ??? By the way, http://www.mcremo.com