We are now being treated to a predictable deluge of hand-wringing, grandstanding, virtue signaling, gaslighting, hysteria, pontificating and snide told-you-so commentary, most of it stating the obvious, most of it just repeating what we’ve known all along. Attacking Afghanistan was a big mistake. What a disaster! What an embarrassment! Our arrogant aggression and illegal retaliation against Afghanistan for 911 was WRONG WRONG WRONG!
Do you somehow feel more enlightened by this bilious bloviating?
I say: Enough with the smug finger-wagging, the weepy whining, the self-aggrandizing bellowing, the 24/7 autopsy of our disastrous 20 years in Afghanistan!
Here’s the real question we should be asking ourselves: With what predictably unfolded there, why do we for even a split second trust the knuckleheads in charge of our military and foreign policy to handle anything going forward? Handle anything at all!
No question about it, there’s certainly a lot that needs handling. Serious challenges that need the immediate attention of informed, balanced, rational, honest, sane individuals, meaning thoughtful, scrupulous, patient, creative policymakers capable of finding optimal solutions which will avoid unnecessary conflict and serve the greater interests of humankind.
Instead we have no choice but to trust power-drunk, delusional, unhinged sociopaths to wrestle with new and ongoing crises. Do you really feel confident that Sleepy Joe, Kamala, our war-obsessed congressional leaders, and the rest of the buffoons in the State Department, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, CIA, NSA, FBI, and their mouthpieces in the media, can come up with anything sensible? Constructive? Positive? Solutions that will not further discredit our nation and humiliate us as citizens? Push the Doomsday Clock even closer to midnight? Accelerate the march to self-annihilation?
Here are some examples of what these incompetent fools are confronted with, much of it the result of their own prior and recurrent idiocy.
CRIMEA: Very recently, there was a conference called the Crimea Platform Summit. The premise, shaky at best, is that Russia forcefully annexed Crimea in 2014 and the world cannot allow this kind of thuggery to stand. The fact that in a referendum 95.5% of the people living in Crimea voted for reunification with Russia and that Crimea for most of its history was part of Russia somehow didn’t get mentioned. That Russia itself finds the whole matter non-negotiable was conveniently ignored. Ukraine must prepare for war! Save the 4.5% living under the boot heel of Putin’s tyranny! Mind you, the U.S. is supplying arms to the neo-Nazis now running the country. Gosh . . . it’s almost as if we WANT a war to start there.
POKING THE BEAR: This year has seen substantially more near incursions into Russian territory than last. These are not innocent joy rides but both reconnaissance flights and simulated bombing missions. They represent a dangerous and intimidating probing of Russian border defenses by fighter jets and nuclear bombers, as well as heavily-armed naval vessels, all “testing the defenses” of Russia. This is so brilliant, I’m tempted to find a skeet shooting range, run around with a bulls-eye painted on my chest, yelling “Na na na na na na! Go ahead, you pathetic losers, try to shoot me. Betcha can’t . . . betcha can’t!”
WAR GAMES: Such aerial and naval provocations go hand-in-hand with massive war games being conducted in countries neighboring Russia, sometimes right up to Russia’s actual borders. There’s no way to characterize these exercises other than preparation for war. If Russia were to be conducting war games in Canada and Mexico, including tens of thousands of troops, artillery, missile launchers, tanks, would the U.S. view it as innocent military exercises just to keep the boys sharp and give them something to do?
TAIWAN: Moving east — as Obama did with his Pivot to Asia — we have Taiwan. We’re arming them to the teeth, cruising battleships and aircraft carriers in The Taiwan Strait, the waters between Taiwan and mainland China, violating our own one-China policy, sending vague but portentous signals to Taiwanese separatist leaders that “We’ve got your back.” Is the U.S. seriously going to risk a world war over Taiwan? With insane, China-hating, chest-thumping, deranged exceptionalists pounding the war drums, I guess the question answers itself.
FONOPS SOUTH CHINA SEA: In the same tinderbox theater, under the pretext of freedom of navigation operations — FONOPs — we continue to taunt, dare, bluff, and browbeat China in the South China Seas. It’s arguably legal. So is jumping barefoot on a pile of broken wine bottles in the privacy of my kitchen. That doesn’t mean its prudent or in the least productive. It’s increasingly obvious that the U.S. is doing everything it can to militarily provoke China, hoping for an incident which will then be the excuse for launching the “inevitable war”. Military strategists — and with our phenomenal success in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, we know we know we can trust this brainy bunch — suggest the sooner the better. As time passes, China will be more capable of defending itself. We sure don’t want to screw this up. This is the BIG ONE! Lose to the Chinese? Inconceivable! By the way, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who I just interviewed for an article that will also appear here soon, says that — now pay close attention — every single war game simulation of a major armed conflict with China ends up in a nuclear war! Need I say more about this insanity?
These are just the “big power” confrontations. The U.S. is of course still in Syria, Iraq, is poised for a war with North Korea and/or Iran, and has special operations — military and CIA personnel with military assets — in countless nations, none of which seems to ever make it into mainstream reporting. We’ve got somewhere around 800 bases of all shapes and sizes, our soldiers in faraway places always on alert and ready for action.
Let’s be clear. There’s no time out. Things are moving forward. That’s the inevitable trajectory of politics, both domestic and international. Yet the reality is, our record going back seven decades is abysmal! There is nothing positive or constructive to be found. Just countries and battlefields strewn with dead bodies, refugees, depleted uranium, land mines, and rubble.
This is what happens when you have delusional megalomaniacs making critical decisions about our place in the world and our relations with other countries.
We need to flush these war-obsessed, homicidal, demonstrably insane empire-builders out of power.
Let me start the list of people who NEED TO GO. We’re ultimately looking at numbers in the thousands. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR SUGGESTIONS. There are so many incompetent, psychopathic fools in key positions, I’m just one guy and I can’t keep track of them all. Here we go . . .
THE HIT LIST (a work in progress)
Joe Biden
Kamala Harris
Anthony Blinken
Lloyd Austin
Mark Milley
Victoria Nuland
Jan Psaki
Mitch McConnell
Nancy Pelosi
Ted Cruz
Adam Schiff
Joe Manchin
Chuck Schumer
Tom Cotton
Tom O’Halleran
Lou Correa
Jim Costa
Mike Thompson
Charlie Crist
Stephanie Murphy
Sanford Bishop
Carolyn Bourdeaux
David Scott
Ed Case
Brad Schneider
Jared Golden
Josh Gottheimer
Mikie Sherrill
Kurt Schrader
Jim Cooper
Henry Cuellar
Vicente Gonzalez
Abigail Spanberger
Doug Jones
Richard Shelby
Lisa Murkowski
Dan Sullivan
Martha McSally
Kyrsten Sinema
John Boozman
Dianne Feinstein
Michael Bennet
Cory Gardner
Richard Blumenthal
Christopher Murphy
Thomas Carper
Christopher Coons
Marco Rubio
Rick Scott
Kelly Loeffler
David Perdue
Mazie Hirono
Brian Schatz
Mike Crapo
James Risch
Tammy Duckworth
Richard Durbin
Todd Young
Joni Ernst
Chuck Grassley
Jerry Moran
Pat Roberts
Bill Cassidy
Susan Collins
Angus King
Benjamin Cardin
Chris Van Hollen
Gary Peters
Debbie Stabenow
Amy Klobuchar
Tina Smith
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Roger Wicker
Roy Blunt
Josh Hawley
Steve Daines
Jon Tester
Deb Fischer
Ben Sasse
Catherine Cortez Masto
Jacky Rosen
Maggie Hassan
Jeanne Shaheen
Bob Menendez
Martin Heinrich
Tom Udall
Richard Burr
Thom Tillis
Kevin Cramer
John Hoeven
Rob Portman
Jim Inhofe
James Lankford
Bob Casey
Pat Toomey
John Reed
Sheldon Whitehouse
Lindsey Graham
Tim Scott
Mike Rounds
John Thune
Lamar Alexander
Marsha Blackburn
John Cornyn
Tim Kaine
Mark Warner
Maria Cantwell
Mitt Romney
Patty Murray
Shelley Capito
Tammy Baldwin
Ron Johnson
John Barrasso
Michael Enzi
John Kirby
Then there are the mutant VIPs without current official appointments, who run amok spreading propaganda, promoting their deviant, deranged world view, and infecting others with their toxic agenda, while they wait for their next cushy government assignment. Do we let confirmed, unrepentant, unrehabilitated murderers, terrorists and rapists run around free? Some people are simply too dangerous to mix with decent human beings . . .
THE LOCK UP LIST (Guantanamo? Where do they keep people pending trial or a lobotomy?)
Mike Pompeo
John Bolton
Nikki Haley
Samantha Power
Susan Rice
Donald Trump
Frank McKenzie
Arne Duncan
Wesley Clark
Michael McFaul
Robert Kagan
Jared Kushner
Steve Bannon
Then there are scores of individuals who are a mixed bag, may or may not have committed prosecutable crimes, certainly have done their share of lying and flip-flopping, perhaps have done some good but also did a lot of damage, and are always capable of building on their past failures to inflict greater setbacks to the common good. Frighteningly, many of them still have the public completely fooled. This could be a very long list!
HONORARY MENTION LOCK UP LIST (We’re keeping an eye on you!)
Barack Obama
Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
John Kerry
Liz Cheney
AOC
The Squad
George W Bush
Condoleezza Rice
Henry Kissinger
Dick Cheney
Jake Sullivan
Sidney Blumenthal
James Clapper
John Brennan
James Comey
Neera Tanden
Paul Krugman
Michael Hayden
Rachel Maddow
Chris Hayes
Bill Kristol
Bill Maher
Glenn Beck
Listen, folks. I know these lists are woefully incomplete. But I did my best on short notice. Now I’m counting on YOUR HELP! That’s why we have a comments section below. GO FOR IT!
John Rachel – September 7, 2021