Tuesday’s victory in the Senate for Republicans is set to usher in a new cast of rogues and villains who, following the example of long-time hawks like Sen. John McCain (R – AZ), never saw a war they didn’t not only like, but wanted to precipitously escalate.
A party shift in Congress isn’t so unusual, but the shift this time is bringing in a lot of newcomers who are outspoken in their love of military interventionism, and have not been shy in talking about their ambitions to force America down an even more disastrously warlike path than the one they are already on.
They don’t even take office for two months, but they’re already holding secret meetings, with the usual suspects like McCain and Sen. Bob Corker (R – TN) preparing for a transition from the loudmouth pro war fringe to the leaders of very powerful Senate committees.
McCain confirmed such meetings, saying there have been considerable discussions on plans to start sending arms to the Ukrainian government, hoping to get that (currently ceasefired) civil war going again, with similar eyes on further damaging already soured US relations with both China and Russia.
For years, McCain’s nigh-apocalyptic pronouncements about the need to start or escalate wars in every corner of the globe have been taken with a grain of salt. The man had a soap box, but no real political power.
Now, he’s the incoming Armed Services Committee Chairman, and the leader of a disturbingly large crew of like-minded super-hawks hoping to move from speeches to action.
The biggest risk here is that while President Obama has long prided himself on ignoring Congress at every opportunity, his commitment to the current level of escalation is paper-thin, and he’s likely not to take much cajoling to agree to escalate on assorted fronts.
Well, the Obama "foreign policy" certainly and safely been paving the way for even the chicken sheerits to become hawkish and invade Iraq and Syria as their leader bushism wanted. The main idea is to conquer the entire northern part of Middle East/Persian gulf from Lebanon to, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The idea was presented by Paul Wolfowitz and his gang of Neo fascism where they all thank obama for making their job easier by taking care of Libya and destroying Syria, creating ISIS which are the friends of John McCain and he got the photo to prove the friendship.
The international policies of USG needs to follow the path presented by US militarism regime in one hand and Zionism in the other, no matter who is the president or governing the USG. In next few years we will witnessing the Israel/Egypt/NATO and USG invasion of Middle East in a larger scal then Iraq, the English are already in Iraq so as few thousands of American, Canada is on board so as Australia and off course saudis and UAE are dressed as ISIS, all ready occupying part of Iraq and Syria. For Hillary Clinton or Jef Bush to follow the path' which without war they have no other alternative but to follow the path, for now they are in class room learning from the masters
Impressive.
With some votes still to be counted the victorious GOP has already come up with a solution to global warming.
A nuclear winter.
Yeah, and if Vlad Putin has no choice but to go to war, I hope he lays one right on Washington, District
of Corruption. He'd be doing the world a favor.
Lock INSANE McCain up NOW ..BEFORE WW3 STARTS!
That won't help. 3/4'ers of the American people have been propagandized into being so afraid of the Muslim world that they will run with McCain's way of thinking anyway. Yes, WW3 is becoming a very big possibility. Now there's something to really be afraid of! But the USG must insulate the people from that way of thinking entirely.
Anyone ever wonder how it just so happens that a treacherous line of "John Sidney" 's have a name that means 'son of the first murderer?' Or how this (at least 2nd, though he be a third) in that line just happens to keep getting photographed with the 'rebel' s after whose rise there's murderous chaos? ( Already years ago I'd heard it noticed: "I mean, the guy is like The Angel of Death." ) Or how both he and his dad sells you out to the same 'country?' How JS III go's from fifth from the bottom at the academy to the height he's at now? Or how Reps thought this stupid-but-triggerhappy guy was the ideal followup to Bush?
So is John Sydney McCain III going to be a front man, here, or will the Jewish Lobby see it as wise to keep him mostly in the background? Probably best to pound on the USS Liberty right about now.
Nothing will really change. The Right-wing claptrap we heard from the chicken hawks
in the GOP peanut gallery was drivel for the MIC and Zionist scum bankrolling their
political campaigns.
The USG taxpayers will continue to be swindled out of (our) cash and resources in an
(endless) series of conflicts conjured up by the MIC and Zionists moneychangers.
Republicans — “Everyone deserves to be rich, trust us, we can make it happen”
Hired by the corporate rich are all Republicans, notwithstanding, represent to perfection they surely do the organized will of the filthy rich ruling class, the 25% most wealthy who hoard 75% of all our wealth.
For the fickle finger of fait has us saddled with a big business democracy, a one-party politics orchestrates by the rich and though Democrats shy away from promising a millionaire in every home, they do strive to please the educated middle-class by giving them all of the uneducated lower half of society as impoverished slave-labor – slaves most eager to endure starvation wages.
> the 25% most wealthy who hoard 75% of all our wealth.
That wealth is not "hoarded", it is in the infrastructure, baby.
> a one-party politics orchestrates by the rich
Frankly, if that were so these guys would be hot on "not war" to be able to keep the riches. Instead we have crazy politicians who want to play "The Punisher" with other people's lifes. Maybe reality does not fully conform to your Trotskyite fantasy?
> uneducated lower half of society as impoverished slave-labor
More left-wing bullshit. You may also want to consider the correlation between the adjective "uneducated" and "low wages". Low-skill labor has always been a hard sell.
The Middle East is a horrid side show, and the Iran deal is probably dead, but the main event is Russia. Perhaps those who viewed President Putin as too cautious on eastern Ukraine were correct. I still wonder why Putin did not send in the troops and annex that area, as the people wanted, at the same time that Crimea, by overwhelming popular vote, was liberated. Could much bloodshed have been spared? Now the R war crazies are about to take over and Obama has shown little ability to stand up to them. If US arms are (officially) sent to Ukraine, Russia has no choice but to respond. Putin needs to act quickly before mad dog McCain and company take over.
If the US is going to send arms to the Ukraine, good. But what makes them so sure that the rank and file Ukrainian is going to take up arms on the behalf of economic hitmen?
taco – I don't understand why you think it's good for the Empire to (officially) send arms to Ukraine. But, be that as it may, I've read that many western Ukrainian soldiers have refused to fight their brothers from the Donbass. The USG/Israel have had little trouble getting the Sunni/Shia to resume their centuries old religious wars, turning their young men into killing machines. But maybe, with the US engineered coup of Kiev, the forces of greed have gone a bridge too far. No doubt many western Ukrainians do not support the fascists and here's hoping there will be massive resistence to these "economic hitmen."
I was being sarcastic, and maybe resigned. I just don't see how some neocon's wet dream necessarily translates into reality. Though on second thought, official aid to the Ukraine might be a good cover story if the actual fighters aren't the average ukrainian, but neonazis and foreign mercenaries.
As crazy as McCain appears to be, he and his ilk have no brains and will only get just so much approval from AmeriKans who STILL have no appetite for more and endless war.
Maybe we can get Israel to blow up a boat somewhere and blame Iran or Russia. Like with MH17 they'll be pointing their fat finger before the dust even settles.
That horse manure won't fly so far anymore.
And they will pay for it how? All of them have been spending money we do not have. Necon's brethern in global financial cartel can produce money from ether, and they are already have more money then God. But when reality knocks on our door, it will be our social security, health care, education, and all other things unnecessary for the rich, and thus — expendabe. Nobody is anymore asking for the price of all of this global imperial posturing. Nobody. Not even the crippled veterans, as they will be again, in zombie like fashion celebrate yet another year of serving banksters.
The government will monetize more debt by selling T-bills to the Fed. This has nothing to do with "banksters" but everything to do with Nixon going off the gold standard.
> it will be our social security, health care, education, and all other things unnecessary for the rich
Do you believe you government's promises? Remember these are not based on reserves but future taxation. Good luck.
If Obama does not respond to reckless military escalation coming from crazed Republican Congress, grounds will be laid for impeachment. A very dangerous situation indeed.
What I love is the Imperialism angle.
This is what the reason rats in the Middle East hide behind as we wage an endless campaign of war and destruction on their enemies. Even General Dempsey said that the Israelis avoided civilian casualties in the latest Gaza slaughter. Huh??
Apparently even generals have to kiss Zionist butt to advance their career. It certainly isn't based on them actually winning one of these myriad wars we have started with countries that never harmed us.
This whole country and especially the gov't and medis from top to bottom is bought and paid for by the Zionists.
My question is, how many more innocents will die before AmeriKa becomes America again? Will we even break free or be destroyed?
Is anyone else as afraid for the future as I am?
It's a colossal disgrace that the U.S. Government subordinates itself–hell, grovels in the dirt–to the
Zionist entity. This is an important reason why the U.S. is no longer a viable nation.
If Vlad Putin ever gets to the point where he feels he has to put an ICBM on Washington, District of
Corruption . . . hey, I understand. . . .
Did anyone actually vote FOR these policies? I always hear what the Republicans are going to do with their new power, and it's always a bunch of policies I can't imagine anyone supports, more secretive trade deals that no employed person much less anyone that cares about sovereignty wants, more endless war, etc…
So it may or may not be the case that they were legitimately elected, but were these issues really the issues anyone ran on or anyone voted for them based on? I suspect they're taking whatever "mandate" they have out of thin air to do things they have no mandate for. Yea with things as bad as they are in this country, what people really voted for in the last election is more money and lives spent on foreign war. You have got to be kidding me.
In the Daily Beast article, the core confusion suffered by McCain and his acolytes is revealed. McCain rails against any negotiation with Iran:"The Iranians are helping [Syrian dictator] Bashar Assad,” McCain added. “They are the ones that got the 5,000 Hezbollah guys into the fight [against Syria’s rebels]"
Then he says a new AUMF is needed for the new war against "ISIS". The article explains: "Many legal scholars found the rationale for the war specious because while ISIS was at one point a franchise of al Qaeda, it has for nearly a year been in open warfare with al Qaeda’s franchise in Syria."
This thinking seems to logically ally the US with al-Qaeda. Or is America just fighting everyone? Except Israel. Fuzzy fuzzy thinking …
When is this walking corpse going to do everyone a huge favor and…..
McCain himself is a walking argument against torture.
I think they are going to follow the "'moderate' Syrian rebel" game plan. McStain and warpublicans are going to make a lot noise, but official aid gets put off. The situation in the Ukraine gets worse descends into chaos –as if legitimacy can be based on a mass protest + social media + snipers , McStain laments how Obama failed to "show leadership" and didn't help "democratic" Ukraine while it was still possible. So not only will there be a mess, there will also be a narrative. No, this isn't going to end well.