Vice President Kamala Harris has named Iran as the US’s top “adversary,” pointing to the recent Iranian missile attack on Israel, which came in response to multiple Israeli escalations.
When asked in her 60 Minutes interview which country she believed was the US’s “greatest adversary,” Harris said, “I think there’s an obvious one in mind, which is Iran.”
She continued, “Iran has American blood on their hands. And what we saw in terms of just this attack on Israel, 200 ballistic missiles, what we need to do to ensure that Iran never achieves the ability to be a nuclear power, that is one of my highest priorities.”
Harris was then asked if she would take military action against Iran if she had proof the country had nuclear weapons, and responded, “I’m not gonna talk about hypotheticals at this moment.”
While there is always much hype around Iran’s nuclear program, which is strictly for civilian purposes, CIA Director William Burns acknowledged on Monday that there’s no evidence Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon.
Both Harris and former President Donald Trump are running on platforms of being extremely pro-Israel and hawkish on Iran. Trump said last week that Israel should strike Iranian nuclear facilities, criticizing President Biden for cautioning against the idea.
Harris’s claim that Iran is the US’s top adversary goes against the official line of the Biden administration that China is the greatest foreign threat facing the US. The Pentagon’s 2022 National Defense Strategy labels China the “most comprehensive and serious challenge to US national security strategy,” with Russia coming in second. Iran is lumped into a category of “persistent threats” that includes North Korea and organizations such as al-Qaeda and ISIS.
Harris still took a hawkish tone with China, saying the US must “win the competition for the 21st century with China.” When asked if she would defend Taiwan if it was attacked by China, Harris again said she wouldn’t “get into hypotheticals.”
President Biden has repeatedly vowed that he would intervene if China attacks Taiwan, breaking from decades of strategic ambiguity around the issue. The US military is also openly planning for a future war with China despite the risk of nuclear war.
She talks like a fourth grader, so does Trump, I doubt they can read above fourth grade level. What a humiliation of the country if that is the best the dehumanized elite can come up with.
The nations elite is without a conscience, without morals and without brains and decency.
The world is looking on, appalled that the only two candidates allowed to have a shot at the presidency both support a genocide.
I am appalled. Makes me sick.
What a stupid thing to say. She has a law degree. Do you?
So what, she appears not to comprehend the responsibility that comes with the job, she never touches real domestic issues, she has book knowledge but no real life experience, any kind of struggle. She is not a person able to handle the job.
It is what it is, like it or not.
It takes more than book learning, growing and maturing, life experience is very important. She does not appear to have that kind of growing, certainly not as VP, that was a nothing job.
She is an empty vessel.
Tim, U really make childish comments.
harris has a wicked bureaucratic cunning, I will give you that. she knows how to claw her way to the top.
Yes, what she was taught was who to butter up and follow … and it has led her to an even chance at the top prize.
No greater indictment of the American managerial system of favoritism could be imagined than for this talentless but cunning operator to reach the presidency.
There are indeed people with higher levels of schooling such as PhD and still uneducated and ignorant of the world. Having a degree doesn't mean someone is educated. George W.Bush has a degree from Harvard and he was elected president too.
G.W. the war CRIMINAL.
Perhaps he was guaranteed admission because of previous generations with the Bush name attending Harvard. A legacy admission?
He was not "elected" POTUS in 2000. The conservatives on the Supreme Court did not stay out of it, be the impartial court they were supposed to be. The Florida State Supreme Court rendered to the state the process to determine with finality who won the state. The Attorney General of the State of Florida sent the case (Bush v Gore) to the Supreme Court, knowing what the outcome would be. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a scathing dissent.
They talk like that because they are trying to appeal to the greatest common denominator of IQ range in America.
They talk that way because the MSM and their education system has taught them that way. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were talking to Americans too, and they did not talk that way.
They talk that way because the Zionist lobby owns them.
That is BS, they are pawns of Israel. Israel is now the enemy of all of mankind. Amazing sh##!
Nope. We may be the greater enemy, with Israel perhaps being the cat's paw "mowing the lawn" to perfect hegemony for us.
If only President Kennedy had not been assassinated in the coup of 1963, I would have loved to see and hear the debates between President Kennedy and Barry Goldwater.
The two had agreed on a series of debates, much like the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
How low is that? I, a voter, feel insulted, they expect from me to believe every lie they come up with, despicable. Common sense and honesty would be the better ticket.
As an older voter, I feel insulted that we continue to have bad choices for POTUS.
The Average IQ in America is that of a fourth grader. These party front runners are all expert communicators, they dumb everything down intentionally to appeal to the broader audience.
Common sense or honesty will lose the race, every time (cf. Ron Paul).
Mark, that is a stupid statement.
IQ is only part of the equation. Intelligent people can be brain washed.
Usually intelligent people are the easiest to fool as they delight in doing most of the work themselves and are more likely to be good at it. Really intelligent people know little and nothing for certain.
Many focus on one thing at a time. Like staring at a lone tree while ignoring the beauty surrounding that tree.
Intelligent people can be incredibly stupid. IQ does not guarantee common sense.
Self induced stupidity is the worst kind.
The bedrock of wisdom is the propensity to reject bullshit.
Trump has built an international business with buildings in the U.S., Canada, Panama, Turkey, Korea, Dubai, the Philippines, and more. Unlike Kamala who got two very well-paid jobs as a board member with meetings twice a month, still missing 20% of them, because at the age of 28 she slept with a man age 60. Trump writes in a childish way in social media, but you say "so does Trump" – when he talks at rallies and in interviews he does not sound like he writes.
Anyone who becomes a billionaire works at minimum 12 hours per day seven days a week, all year round, and even the head of a company with only 100-200 employees makes about 50 decisions a day, usually forced to rely quickly on memorized data. No one who becomes a billionaire is stupid. Democrat Bloomberg tanked in the primary debate, but that's not because he is stupid, it's simply impossible that he would be, and the same goes for Trump.
I agree that Trump is not anwhere as stupid as Harris, but he is still a seriously flawed and vain candidate.
He may be a smart businessman, but he is not a thoughtful statesman.
Harris is a lawyer. She was a prosecutor. She was Attorney General of California. She did not spring from wealth with a $300 million head start like Mr. TrumP
I personally don't like her, but she has achieved a measure of success on her own.
But a persons psychology influences everything. Billionaires are millionaires work 12 hr. days if they do, because it is their hobby to make more money than the other guy, what else can they gain when they already have more money they then they need to live in luxury. They can only eat so much and sleep in one bed at a time. What makes them tick? They are megalomaniacs, they like wealth and the power and sex that comes with it. People like Trump does no care about the people, but he likes to make them dance for him.
you neglected to mention how Donald inherited $300 million from Fred Trump.
And then managed to parlay it into less money than he’d have had if he’d just invested it all in an indexed mutual fund and stuck to womanizing instead of wasting so much with his hit or miss real estate cons, etc.
when he talks at rallies and in interviews he does not sound like he writes.
Bullshit.
Do town halls count?
At a Wisconsin town hall, for example, Trump baselessly associated a reliance on wind power with people eating less bacon these days. The quote speaks for itself: “You take a look at bacon and some of these products. Some people don't eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down — you know, this was caused by their horrible energy — wind, they want wind all over the place. But when it doesn't blow, we have a little problem.”
Mr. Trump started out in the business world with a lot of money from daddy. It is called starting on third base. He managed to file bankruptcy 6 times. lost money on three casinos, needed to get a loan from a German bank and a Russian bank to keep from defaulting on other loans.
When he took office he said he would not take the POTUS salary. However, he did not relinquish his businesses, but had his sons run the show (yeah, right). Was able to see reports, get money from the businesses by a phone call to son #1 who would have son #2 execute the money transfer. (WSJ article documented it). He also had foreign dignatories stay at his hotels (emoluments violation?), even the U.S. Air Force personnel stayed at his hotel, in Scotland, at a cost to taxpayers.
The Titanic is sinking regardless. You can panic and scream like the rest or grab a violin and play one last music as it goes down.
It is always hypothetical when a politician stands for nothing and will not risk any political capital and lose a few votes.
You are talking about a Darwinian process here. Politicians who are willing to lose a few votes are eliminated.
Why eliminate an honest candidate because of an honest political conviction? If so, we do deserve what we get.
Honest candidates are eliminated because the system is designed to reward dishonesty.
Going back to the Darwinian theme, politicians are adapted to a system where they seek power. If a politician exhibits any behavior that runs contrary to that pursuit, such as acting on quaint notions of honesty, that puts that politician at a disadvantage when competing with politicians who concentrate solely on gaining power.
It doesn’t make any difference what the voters try to do. The result will be that the most ruthless politicians will win.
That does make people wonder why vote, ruthless candidates and money decides the winner.
When we talk democracy we talk about the ideal as if it is reality.
A total and complete lightweight … she truly is an empty vessel for the deep state to fill in …
Nations, like trees, rot from the top down …
Norman Finkelstein referred to Kamala as being:
1) A laughing cow.
2) An empty vessel
She is also one power crazed, evil woman.
Wasn't it China? Or Wasn't Russia? Or was it little green aliens from outer space?
The Aliens are real, I just really can't figure out what their game plan, agenda is, but I think it is to stop us all from destroying the Earth, even if it means wiping out the Human species by disease. They must view us as being so despicable, evil, violent, destructive. ;(
“They are here!”….
No doubt! 🙂
Sometimes I feel like an alien. Then I remember that I'm a dog.
https://media1.giphy.com/media/vQqeT3AYg8S5O/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Hang on…Wasnt it supposed to be China? ..Russia, Venezuela?North Korea? Is it Iran this week?
Next it will be Venezuela. Lots and lots of oil there.
Imagine waging war over a country because of some alleged accusations that they have weapons of mass destruction? Oh wait, you already did that once, lot of good did that came out of it didn't it?
Or Vietnam was the springboard for communism to spread throughout the world. A decade later, 2.5 million dead Vietnamese, 58,000 dead young American troops, Vietnam is now a trading partners with the U.S..
And a good thing, that end result. Despite everything.
This episode of Scheerpost should clear up some things. It did for me: https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/08/michael-hudson-and-richard-wolff-middle-east-exploding-ukraine-crumbling-us-take-action/
I don't understand how come you and I perceive that conversation to have been so enlightening while virtually no one else does. Both Hudson and Wolff proffered arguments of grand and perpetual US perfidy in the ME that are difficult if not impossible to refute.
Hudson kept calling Israel and its PM a "cat's paw" of the US in the ME. Meanwhile, Doctorow is being roasted on Judge Nap for making the same claim because the Great and Wonderful Mearsheimer doesn't agree and claims Israel is a wild card threat to US hegemonic efforts.
I agree with Mearsheimer on most of his claims, but do not see a clear cut case of Israel harming US objectives as opposed to furthering them. US wars seem to conform to Israeli long range agendas nearly always.
Israel is mowing the law for us. The reward? A depopulated and dead Gaza.
Who will rebuild? We had better not.
This:
Michael Hudson:
Well, it’s more than just a geographic split. We’re really in a civilizational split, and it goes much deeper. What’s at stake is what kind of economy is the world going to have?
Is it going to be a financialized, neoliberal post-industrial economy, which is what the United States and Europe are pushing? Or is it going to be the kind of economy that textbooks talk about, where economies produce agricultural and industrial goods to feed themselves and make everybody prosper? I almost would use Rosa Luxemburg’s phrase, Barbarism or Socialism, because the West no longer has the means of real economic control over trade and production. It only has military force, terrorist violence and corruption to maintain its control.
The NATO West does financial control by having loaded down the global South and even many Asian countries with dollarized debt for the last 70 years. That dollarized debt holds them in a financial neocolonialism, an international debt peonage. Besides that, the ultimate power that the United States and Europe have to maintain their unipolar control to prevent other countries from going their own way and pursuing their own interests is to bomb them and mobilize terrorism.
Judge Nap is someone I perceive as basically a good and decent person, even though I disagree with his economic politics.
Having said that, as someone who has been part of the system, he still wants to view the US as mostly the standard of good from the constitution; that shining beacon on a hill.
This: https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-drops-depleted-uranium-bombs-inside-beirut-official
Same as the good teacher, the U.S. of Atrocities. We did the same in Iraq.
Kamala is not only ignorant, but she is stupid and pliable
Trump is vain and that vanity also makes him controllable.
That is why they have been chosen as the two main candidates.
God save us.
Yes, and at the same time, God may be LMAO at the human beings here and the funny things they do with their opposable thumbs.
With regards to Iran developing a nuclear arsenal, it is significant to remember that for several years Iran has had the ability to produce enough bomb-grade U235 for several bombs. And the knowledge of how to make and explode these. Iran did not do that. Why? I believe that there is only one realistic answer. The government and the people of Iran take the fatwa against having nuclear weapons very seriously.
Iran is Biden's and Kamala's Cuba. Both are crazy.
Stick to the narrative, Kamala. RUSSIA is the USA's greatest adversary…unless your bosses have changed their minds?
To a country seeking hegemony, such as our country, every country is our greatest adversary.
What happened to Russia and North Korea…?!
Russia and North Korea disappeared down the memory hole. Don't worry, they will reemerge from the memory hole so the warmongers can beat them up.
They just wiped the sweat from their brows and went back to their business.
Iran ain’t ever done a thing to hurt me. the embassy takeover was a shitty thing, I get it, but can be viewed as a rejection of colonialist control and we could easily move past it. other than that event, seriously, Iran ain’t done anything to us (but we have attacked bunch of Iran’s neighnors!)
Pat, the USA overthrew Iran's elected Prez. along with England, in 1953 and installed the PUPPET Shah. So yes, they have every reason to be pissed off at USA and England. Fact.
Vice President Harris Is the US’s ‘Greatest Adversary’
Harris is a contender for that title. But she does have a lot of competition in the ruling class.
The greatest adversary of the people of the US is its own insane ruling government.
If Kamala was looking at World Events, World History, especially in the ME, she would know that Israel/UK/USA are the biggest threat to Humanity. But we all know Kamala is just another Zionist, who LIES from all orifices and will continue to betray our Republic. She is not worthy of your votes, just as Zionist Trump is not worthy of your votes.
It goes back 50 years.
Scheerpost: https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/08/michael-hudson-and-richard-wolff-middle-east-exploding-ukraine-crumbling-us-take-action/
Note the statements by Michael Hudson.
Question seems like a plant knowing full well Iran was to be the answer. It’s a dumb superficial question to begin with – choose one – but that’s normal for 60 Minutes. Still seems a plant.
Poor China – one minute the USA is inviting the DPRC to the Homecoming War, then all of a sudden the IRI shows some cleavage and America's all, "Sorry China, we, um, forgot we'd invited Iran first."
Too many abbrevs.
Why IS “abbreviation” such a long word ?
Benjamin Netanyahu said, "America is a thing you can move very easily:"
Israel helped elect Trump in 2016 not because Hillary Clinton wasn't a loyal servant, but because Trump's largess outdid her promised deliveries. Now in 2024, we're witnessing another Netanyahu-led October Surprise not for fearing a change in Kamala Harris' policy from Biden, the self-proclaimed first Zionist president, but rather because Netanyahu values his proven transactional relationship with Trump. (counterpunch.org, Jamal Kanj, September 27, 2024)
Trump is not a thing you can move very easily. Trump is clearly anti-War and America First.
President Trump would have never signed that $120 BILLION foreign Wars bill that the Uniparty Congress and Biden-Kamala pushed through in April.
“In my fevered imagination, contrary to all the known facts and his past performance, Trump is clearly anti-War and America First.”
Fixed, no charge.
The known facts and his past performance talk louder than your fevered imagination can scream, me thinks.
And he never would have withdrew the United States of America from the INF Treaty, Open Skies, JCPOA, and, oh, signed foreign wars bills. (did I miss the fact that he ordered more drone attacks than Obama?) Or maybe the deficit increased by $7.8 billion while he was in office? He gave the donor class a nice present with the Tax Reform Act of 2017, which benefited (drum roll here) himself.
Keeping the US out of Wars for 4 years while he was President benefited all of us—-not to mention securing OUR borders and keeping inflation low. No wonder they tried to impeach him.
Keeping the US out of wars for 4 years while he was president WOULD have benefited us, if he had chosen to do that instead of what he actually did, which was escalate every war he inherited and re-start at least one (Somalia) that had sputtered out.
He did a poorer job of “securing” your borders than either Obama or Biden as measured by numbers of travelers actually abducted and deported. Whether that indicates he wasn’t as evil as Obama/Biden and was faking it, or was actually trying but just not as competent, is an interesting question.
He did his damnedest to send inflation to the moon, but only succeeded after COVID hit and he started sending out the funny money “stimulus checks” we’re still paying for with higher prices on everything.
He’s more entertaining, and possibly no worse due to his fecklessness, incompetence, and mental decline, than Harris, but that’s just not saying very much.
I couldn't agree more.
I do think he is too irrational and difficult to handle for the donor class. Harris, I think, would be easier to deal with, like Biden.
The circumstances made it possible, that has changed now, he is criminal too. Assassinations and illegal sanctions, breaking international law, like giving the Golan Heights and Jerusalem to Israel, are on his ledger too. He would make the AIPAC happy just like Biden did and Harris and Trump said they would. Which war criminal would be better?
The Neocons and Zionists are in charge and they know it, it is a huge criminal syndicate.
Trump is like the cartoon character that has a devil on one shoulder whispering in his ear encouraging him to be bad things. The problem is that on his other shoulder, whispering in his ear…… is another devil.
I'm embarrassed that the US- self-proclaimed 'beacon of liberty' for the world- cannot come up with any better candidates for the top leadership role for the nation.
"Embarrassed"? Angry and frustrated are more effective responses to this crap!
Embarrassed? I'm depressed and terrified, by turns.
So, let me get this straight- Iran was recently accused of plotting to assassinate Trump, yet his opponent, apparently brainwashed to utter the "broken record" declaration that Iran is the "foremost sponsor of terrorism on the planet" (Israel and the USA are!), is giving the "bad guy" Iran a sort of "reason" to put her (Harris) on their hit list? While Israel shoots anything that moves or shows its face, Iran, trying to confront and stop Israel's aggressions, is the "terrorist"! What a screwed-up world!
they are worse than screwed up, they are dangerous, without a brain and they are/would be in charge of nuclear weapons. Scary, to say the least.
The Neocons and their lackeys in Washington, and that includes K. Harris, seem to be constantly inventing new enemies, just as in George Orwell's book ‘1984’.
According to Vice President and democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, the “greatest enemy“ du jour is now Iran, a country that has not attacked the US.
For President J. Biden, the enemy is Russia. On other days, it’s China. Before, it was Iraq, Syria, Libya or North Korea.
It appears that the representatives of the military-industrial complex in Washington DC want a war, any kind of war with any country.
The empire seems to need a permanent war to keep going.
The profits come along with the war.
War is a Racket.
Book by Major General Smedley Butler
'I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government….'MLK 1967
Who has
jut 5% of the worlds population?
yet who rules
with the right of might like rome?
Is this 'Rule of Law'
so many point to
as some pinnacle city of light?
Or is this just a gang of thugs
in a rapidly decaying metropolis?
marvel at the comics kiddies
Ruling from atop the hill
as king for a day
but that day never stops
Gets uglier
more perverse
more depraved
All done
with your
tax dollars…
MLK was a great man. That's why he was murdered.
JFK had the potential to become a great president that is why he was murdered.
JFK had the potential to become a great president that is why he was murdered.
Cherry pick
who is good
who is bad
for doing the same thing
but who is friend
who is foe?
Who are you
to say
who can have
who cannot?
fu
Wow- Vlad and Kim Sung Il must feel like they're really off the hook, now!
Bashing Russia Iran and China is simple minded campaigning.
Iran is not a threat to America.
The morally bankrupt ruling elite is gaslighting us, the American people.
The Dissenter: https://thedissenter.org/us-backed-israeli-military-forces-have-executed-numerous-journalists-since-october-7/?ref=the-dissenter-newsletter&sourceid=1072124&emci=6c329c39-bd84-ef11-8474-6045bda8aae9&emdi=492ca704-c184-ef11-8474-6045bda8aae9&ceid=3511518
And, the U.S. of Atrocities is……………………..?
Americas biggest adversary is China, No Russia, NO Iran or Perhaps anyone else the NEOCONs want to pick a fight with.
America has sanctions on 30% of the world so far. If America keeps this up it will be isolated and alone.
The American nation is bonkers. We do know, China is located on another continent and at no time did China threaten to attack and invade the USA, the USA has attacked China and Taiwan is a Chinese issue and non of our business.
The ruling millionaire elite is gaslighting us. Will we ever learn?
Taiwan is a Taiwanese issue (it is not now, and never has been, ruled by the People’s Republic of China).
The US should stay out, of course, but staying out doesn’t require anyone to pretend things aren’t what they are.
Well China is some 4000 years or more old and you split hair because it was not named by the modern name People’s Republic of China. Your limited history knowledge of China does not change anything. the the people in Taiwan are Chinese people like on the mainland of China, no matter what you want to call them. It is a Chinese issue, and you are right, it is not an American issue, may I ask why do you make it an issue?
China ruled Taiwan on and off for a time (as did the Dutch and then the Japanese). The last period of rule from the Chinese mainland ended about 130 years ago.
Most of the people who live in Taiwan are of Chinese descent (there are some of its indigenous people left, but not many), but how does that magically make them subject to a particular regime that has never, at any point in time, ever, ruled them?
As far as it being an issue: I think the US should stay completely out of any disagreements between China and Taiwan. Which is not the same thing as pretending that they’re the same place.
Yes, a simple conclusion, it is non of our business, so what is Biden or Trump, the American A-holes doing there?
Statists gonna state. I don’t support it, but then I don’t have to support it.
Thomas would you support insane politics because you have to in a democracy?
I hate to say it, but we are being governed by irrational, insane, criminal elements, for decades now, not just since yesterday.
We are being manipulated by megalomaniacs.
I never support insane politics.
And you’re right, we — that is, pretty much everyone on earth — are being governed by irrational, insane, criminal elements. There’s not really any other form of political government.
It is less the political form than the the characters of the ruling power-elite. They are people without morals, without a soul, not a shred of human decency, as I see it.
America's greatest adversary is Israel. At home and abroad.