Senators, notably Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), are pushing for clarification from the Pentagon about their interpretation of the concept of “collective self-defense,” under which the US military claims near-limitless power to conduct unilateral strikes on enemies not authorized by Congress.
The expansion of the notion that military forces have a right to self-defense if they are attacked was expanded to a collective right, which allows the US to intervene when anyone the Pentagon identifies as a “partner” is either under attack or faces a conceivable threat from someone else.
The Pentagon has affirmed in recent correspondence with Sen. Kaine that this is how they view things, and that moreover it is “not typically limited to particular groups or individuals committing the hostile act or demonstrating the hostile intent.” This means, in effect, they can attack targets Congress never authorized them to target so long as they select some “partner” that could benefit from the attack.
Sen. Kaine noted that this is a problem, because the Pentagon is flat out saying they don’t need to be authorized to go after the “hostile” actor, and also does not provide Congress with a list of who the “partners” they have are, meaning this whole calculation on who the Pentagon is allowed to attack can happen entirely behind the scenes, and to the extent the public, or Congress, are ever given a justification, it can be long after the fact.
This is how the Pentagon has been behaving as well, with actions like targeting Shi’ite militias or Russian mercenaries in Syria, neither of whom Congress authorized, on the grounds that they were engaged in hostile actions against rebel factions that the US, at least for the purposes of the attacks, were labeled “partners” at the time.
power of the purse baby, time to pull on their chain and hard
Exactly.
But the next step of a rogue military is to take what they want. Late stage empire?
More like Late Stage Republic, soon to enter Civil War Stage.
A war between the U.S. republic and the U.S democracy That night be a war between the republicans and the democrats .
You mean the UN ,NATO and the NWO .
Our partners, the terrorists.
No you’re partner’s are Hezbollah and Russian mercenaries backed up by, Russian air support and a puppet presidents propped up military .
Which puppet president are you citing….?????
Evil empire
doing such evil
will legalize its crimes
to make it right
Tell me
what say you
when you murder
justification is your might?
Withdraw from the courts
bully all who oppose
deny the truth
with a insatiable well of lies
But your house of cards
is rotting from the inside out
creaking from the poison of your deeds
chickens coming home to roost
Debt is the cancer
eating your soul
to pay for a profit
under a polluted flag shooting from a dirty gun
Tick tock
its about to collapse
enjoy your last president
hes the face of your truth
Wow.
thanks- i wrote it right after i read the article…One of those times, it just writes itself and i just go along for the ride…5 minutes, then one goes back to edit later and hopes not to muck it up but simply polish it a bit…
Nice rant, we need more.. As they go rogue, we need some to say they have already gone far too far…
More? i have books on this…:
Dig Two Graves
If you want to fight violence do it with your wit and smile not a snarl and sword
If you hate violence then don’t apply it
If you want justice for your people then treat one and all justly
If you want to confront the monster be careful you don’t become one yourself
I can’t advocate nuking those who would have the Samson option
I cannot hate one group for hating another
I will not commit the same crimes on others because they are criminals
If you are seeking revenge, then you better dig deep two graves
I agree with our cause and I am in full empathy
But when you advocate utilizing the same tools that you despise then you are out of line
I will not hand out injustice as vendetta for injustice
I will not shoot those who shoot those I support
How can I teach a man to abstain from hate if I feed that hatred?
How can I practice what I preach if I ignore my own principles?
How can I face down anger if I rage myself?
How can I resist not evil if I do evil things?
So many are full righteous rage and horrendous hate for evil deeds
But then they don’t realize now that they have been consumed by what they hate
They can’t see humor, they cant hear laughter, they cant smell the roses or think they could be wrong while they are deaf to one and all if any disagree
They are the flipside of their enemy and became the same as them
You’re blinded by your hate and anger to the hate and anger
Violence begets violence in a cycle never-ending
An eye for an eye will make our whole blind and then no one will be left to see right from wrong
And your anger will only consume you as it does your foe
Your hate will not outlast their hate
Your rage will not conquer their anger
Your violence will not eradicate their violence
Your injustice is no more just than their injustice
As you blog your hatred and racism for their hatred and racism
You might want to look in the mirror and tell yourself what you see
If you go out today for vengeance instead of justice you better dig two graves before you leave home
Because now you’ve become your own enemy and that is a bad place to be
You need to apply with antiwar.com And write for them . I vote for you your thoughts are the same as Good Indians , Chinese Cunfusses , good Muslims ,Christians and Jews
Thanks i did….And don’t forget buddhism and doaism…
Here’s a couple more for your potential pleasure/ enjoyment;
1)When in rome
I understand
You cant say and be
All that you believe
But at what point
Does one
Not go crazy
When everyday
The nightmare
Spits in your face
I know
I have to compromise
For I live
In the land of the enemy
But my integrity
And the truth
Demands a breath
Shackled
Imprisoned
The mirror is laughing
Taunting and accusing me
Of becoming
Just another sheep
I scream
Rant and rave
Through my words and guitar
But if they knew
What I feel
They would
Plant me burning to a stake
All because I don’t believe in flags and war
I don’t agree with bigotry and inclusive selfishness
I don’t bow before utter insanity as sane
I am not exceptional
I am not blessed
I am not king of the hill
Just because we can kick ass
I am equal
2)Dig Two Graves
If you want to fight violence do it with your wit and smile not a snarl and sword
If you hate violence then don’t apply it
If you want justice for your people then treat one and all justly
If you want to confront the monster be careful you don’t become one yourself
I can’t advocate nuking those who would have the Samson option
I cannot hate one group for hating another
I will not commit the same crimes on others because they are criminals
If you are seeking revenge, then you better dig deep two graves
I agree with our cause and I am in full empathy
But when you advocate utilizing the same tools that you despise then you are out of line
I will not hand out injustice as vendetta for injustice
I will not shoot those who shoot those I support
How can I teach a man to abstain from hate if I feed that hatred?
How can I practice what I preach if I ignore my own principles?
How can I face down anger if I rage myself?
How can I resist not evil if I do evil things?
So many are full righteous rage and horrendous hate for evil deeds
But then they don’t realize now that they have been consumed by what they hate
They can’t see humor, they cant hear laughter, they cant smell the roses or think they could be wrong while they are deaf to one and all if any disagree
They are the flipside of their enemy and became the same as them
You’re blinded by your hate and anger to the hate and anger
Violence begets violence in a cycle never-ending
An eye for an eye will make our whole blind and then no one will be left to see right from wrong
And your anger will only consume you as it does your foe
Your hate will not outlast their hate
Your rage will not conquer their anger
Your violence will not eradicate their violence
Your injustice is no more just than their injustice
As you blog your hatred and racism for their hatred and racism
You might want to look in the mirror and tell yourself what you see
If you go out today for vengeance instead of justice you better dig two graves before you leave home
Because now you’ve become your own enemy and that is a bad place to be
3) Of all that I was born to
By michael hall
Cannot dare say
I have done
What i came to do
Nothing that dust won’t own
When my shadow has turned to bone
Still
Till then
I walk and talk
Watch and baulk
All these loops
I wander through within
A living mental institution
Feel my sons from pipedreams
Become farther than I’ve gone
I now understand
But its too late for me
As I see them move on
Such a pinprick
A flea on the dog
When I’m dead and gone
Just a fleeting whisper in the fading wind
For I know now
It all don’t mean a thing…
yet
It endures
Inside the black hole
A label
Of all that was done
Persevered
Remembered
For what purpose
Ask the wind…
Ask the wind
words are as leaves
wafting in the wind
flittering and tossed about
but a smile can last forever
seared onto your heart
a treasured gaze a lifetime
frozen into your soul
a touch can move mountains
with the faith of a mustard seed
while a step
small as a fragile footprint
on the moon
a journey to the stars
words are as leaves
wafting in the wind
flittering and tossed about
but a smile can last forever
seared onto your heart
a treasured gaze a lifetime
frozen into your soul
a touch can move mountains
with the faith of a mustard seed
while a step
small as a fragile footprint
on the moon
a journey to the stars
ask the wind…
Dulce Et Decorum Est III & A Taste of Armageddon
(Or the Empire has no Clothes but a Disposition Matrix)
In due homage
to Horace, Owen & Mikhail
i humbly nod
for how sweet & glorious
it must be to kill or die
for God & country
via pompous duty
asphyxiatingly-wrapped
in ersatz honor
and a fool’s pride
so c’mon kiddies,
any up for good jingo sport?
who’s hungry & poor,
who wants to play
the hubris ‘anything for profit’ killing game?
As newspapers, rah rah
pied piper patriotism
with journalistic integrity
star spangled objectivity ha ha!
as a new battle/fear lies just around the corner
& armed forces day just weeks away hooray!
rally loyal citizens
to whitewash warm innocuous blood
off disgraced musket & sullied polluted flag
strike up the marching parade
manifest destiny down main street usa hurrah!
Awaken & open thine eyes
chauvinistic folk
come & see
your overseas deeds of nefarious brutality
You’re liable
for this appalling
tax-paid supported violence
exported to hamlets & villages
Assaulting families
who’ve never
did you any harm
in lands you’ve never heard of
nor care less for
so step on up
one & all
Take a trip
to the overflowing morgues
filled with small smashed bodies
once toddlers
full of laughter & life
Deeply inhale
the rancid stench
of scorched flesh
crispy burnt
to a black bubbly mass
by phosphorus
Gaze into doll dead eyes
frozen forever
by shock & awe
renditioned
via your God blessed terror from overhead
Atop a cold gurney
a stiff finger of a tiny hand
amidst a mish-mosh of mangled flesh
bulls-eyed at you war supporters
Watch
as grief-stricken father’s
zombie-wander
in shattered silence
sifting through ragged debris
devastating destruction
searching
for lost sons
missing daughters
Discovering
ripped wet mangled body parts
strewn out as pieces of a human jig-saw puzzle
taking home
the ear, the hand, the foot
to be quietly buried
while 6000 miles away
heroes giggle and snicker
calling this crime against humanity
‘bugsplat’
Harken
to the heart-piercing shrieks
as soul-torn asunder mothers
wail like howling wild animals
as they find their loves buried
broken & bloody
in the rubble
of your glorious works
Then if you can
please explain
to the unresponsive moaning
neonatal orphan
why your armed forces
just murdered his parents
by accident
then wave a condolence payment
like juicy enticement in his face
Celebrate
as your special op-forces
silently & quickly
dig out bullets
from civilian bodies
to cover their tracks
from being at the wrong address
again
Declare as a national holiday
murdered women at a bridal shower
or when
4 kids are droned to smithereens
while tending sheep
rejoice
in exported evil exploits
as great american victories
for which your war crimes always are
Trust flim-flam,
the PR propaganda spin
from subjective mass media
obey leaders and church bosses
pay your taxes
which finances anglo-terrorism
through illegal & immoral aggressive violence
Raise your polluted flag
higher higher ever higher
to cover the rising pile where the butchered lie
however
dear good christian citizens
no civic rag
could ever soar over
the sick slaying of the innocent
Consider Fallujha
surrounded & caged
as the cowering cringing unarmed civilian inhabitants
are shot, burned & barbequed
like slaughtered sitting ducks
in a ‘free-fire zone’ shooting gallery
Ponder
upon your sanctimonious attack
at a school in Bajour
where 69 children are massacred by joystick
as you deceive yourself
into believing
it did not happen
washing your hands
turning as you walk away
This is Sand Creek
Wounded Knee
My Lai
Haditha
too many other mass-media
contorted & distorted great triumphs
To whit
no doubt in my mind
the next war crime called
a ‘battle’
or a ‘humanitarian bombing’
will be patriotically anointed too
sanctioned of course
ta ta
These “strikes” AKA assassinations are being increasingly done by rocket-firing drones, even against targets in US-allied countries (Pakistan). And the US is just playing catch-up to China. According to a recent article:
It’s called circumventing the Constitution and is the primary business of government at all times. Every President and most of Congress support it, which is why the US is utterly out of control.
No need for Congress, or for that matter any pesky elected representative when you have a military junta as the ultimate decision maker.
The problem is that Congress has been AWOL on doing anything important on a host of issues with war and peace at the top of the list. So the president has stepped in with executive orders, international agreements, kill list approvals, etc. Actually President Reagan forbade foreign assassinations, by executive order, and Obama renewed them.
Congress-critters don’t have time for issues, they are busy raising money. Congress Is Literally a Bunch of Telemarketers
When the US military is in foreign countries where they weren’t invited and have no right to be, everything they do is naked aggression, and nothing they do could be considered self-defense.
Bingo!!!! There ain’t no self defence caveat 4 naked extra-legal aggression committed across international borders in independent states WITHOUT United Nations security Council approval… Just don’the exist, except in the mind of the invaders…!!!!
This is news? When have there been any restrictions?
Some of the strikes might be internal. Remember the Waco siege? And they’re better equipped now.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dor50P2XkAABUdL.jpg
from DefenseOne, now the CIA/Pentagon attack team has “temporary battlefields”:
Authorization of war is congresses job so is appointing another supreme court judge . Have you paid attention both our house and senate are hogtied into politics . We have no working government , That is why Obama was able to change so much with executive orders .
Google, “A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany”