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US President Joe Biden has declared himself a `war president.’ He has ordered two US aircraft carriers, advanced missile systems and 2,000 Marines to the Mideast. It’s full-force war fever in Washington.
Does this seem like overkill considering Hamas has not much more than lightly armed teenagers with AK-47 rifles and some home-made bombs? Of course not. It’s the old ‘bomb them back to the Stone Age’ mentality.
What’s behind this militaristic display is, of course, imminent US elections. Staunchly pro-Israel American voters are only 2% of the electorate, but their influence is profound and pervasive. Pro-Israel voters are believed to be one of the most important political donors to the Democratic Party. Add Christian Evangelicals who venerate Israel as the modern Promised Land.
America’s small numbers of Muslims and liberal thinkers have gone into hiding after the massacre of Israelis in Gaza. The always pro-Israel US media equates the Hamas movement with the old Nazi Party for beastly behavior.
One is reminded of Talleyrand’s famous quip about Napoleon’s murder of the Duc d’Enghien as ‘worse than a crime, a mistake.’
What we saw was not a political act but a ghastly jailhouse riot by Palestinian refugees caged up in the awful Gaza open-air prison for over 60 years.
Biden, who looks on his last legs, is in full panic mode, and rightfully so. Donald Trump is closing in like a giant storm cloud and way ahead in the polls. Trump is no spring chicken but compared to the doddering Biden, he looks like a political Adonis.
Trump had the guts and smarts to end the calamitous Afghan War while America’s bemedaled generals and politicians were too scared to do so, fearing they would be blamed for the Afghan fiasco.
The US had few compunctions about sending B-1 and B-52 heavy bombers to carpet bomb Afghan villages but was suddenly outraged by the attacks on civilians in Gaza.
As the US stumbles into yet another military conflict, we should remember that run amok spending is the greatest threat to US security, not Hamas, al-Qaida, Taliban, Vlad Putin nor any other of our favorite enemies. Biden now wants to spend an additional $105 billion on his pet wars in Ukraine and Israel, both of which are already awash in US dollars.
Many Americans go hungry or lack medical care while Washington lavishes money on these two pet causes. Biden’s aid proposals have unmasked the secret alliance between Israel and Ukraine. Some Israelis even speak of Ukraine as a ‘second Israel.’ America’s Israel lobby is the prime motivator of intense support in Congress and the media for the Ukraine War. The two conflicts are merging into one very expensive pre-election campaign.
To be fair, Trump and Bush also said they wanted to be war presidents. All politicians know that the fastest way to boost their ratings is to start a small war. American industry often looks dependent on ever increasing military spending, particularly so in key electoral states. Afghanistan cost over $1.2 trillion but it all went on the national credit card.
The US national debt is now $33.6 trillion, a monster deficit that threatens to capsize the economy and crash Wall Street. Yet the Biden administration keeps spending like drunken sailors. It’s all ok provided Americas taxpayers never bear the real cost of their jolly little wars.
Meanwhile, the Biden White House keeps stumbling ever closer to war with Russia that could easily go nuclear. The ‘war president’ now risks a global disaster over obscure places in Ukraine that are of no importance at all to the United States – but essential to Biden’s potential re-election.
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to tell the truth, i came here to make fun of margolis’ latest clueless effort, (like i do with rall). i was pleasantly surprised to find the first six paragraphs to be a basic but logical synopsis and the first sentence of the 7th paragraph looked promising.
then i got what i came for, thank you mr. margolis for not disappointing me, as i’ve come to look forward to your humorous, baron munchausen explanations of geopolitical situations. ah yes, trump and his super duper missiles, that the russians stole from us, even though we can’t make them ourselves. betcha the little rocketman is glad he cut a deal with the russians and not this fucking idiot (not that bolton would have allowed it, anyway).
i wonder if baron trumps middle name is munchausen? he might be a chip off the old block too.
biden who is in full panic mode….
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231026/fbi-received-criminal-info-from-over-40-confidential-sources-on-biden-hunter---reports-1114489284.html
sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, look at blinkens face, it looks like old joe just soiled himself at the podium. will he be o.k.? depends…
But why in the world does Joe Biden want to win the coming election? Is he too poor to be able to buy food without a presidential salary? Is he so energetic, bouncing around, that retirement would be dull and boring? He just loves rushing to Ukraine and Israel?
I read your article Margolis but there was nothing useful or interesting in it. I hope Ron didn’t pay for that garbage.
One difference I have noticed on the home front so far as the Ukraine and Israeli conflicts are concerned:
Right after the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, I saw Ukrainian flags popping up in some of the more affluent neighborhoods that surround my more modest neighborhood. Yard signs saying “I stand with Ukraine” were also popular.
In these same neighborhoods, I have yet to see any Israeli flags or signs saying “I stand with Israel.” To a certain extent, this is probably because Jews are all but nonexistent in my area. Yet the same was true of Ukrainians.
I think the difference is that you can put up a Ukrainian flag without fear of repercussions. There is very little chance that some angry Russian will take umbrage and throw a brick through one’s picture window. Put up an Israeli flag and there is a good chance that some leftist or jihadist will be offended and react accordingly. On the other hand, if you put up a Palestinian flag, you are asking to be cancelled or maybe investigated by the FBI. It’s easy to virtue signal when there is no fear of pushback.
I’m happy to report (not really) that rainbow flags remain acceptable!
Maybe the chicken swingers should stop swinging chickens, because now we have the chickens coming home to roost (and they are pissed).
If the DOJ and FBI are determined to be oblivious, I guess Bribery Biden will just get away with all he (and his family) have done unless we get a new Attorney General and at least one new desk over at the FBI. That won’t happen until we have a new president, right?
“Pro-Israel voters”. Why not just call them Jews? And how will that 33.6 trillion EVER be repaid? Perhaps the eventual economic emasculation of the USA will end the empire? The USSR eventually collapsed for economic reasons.
No praise for Jews so it must be “nothing useful or interesting in it”. How stupid you can get. The garbage is in your pea-sized brain.
There will never be peace in the middle east as long as the U.S. is the arbitrator.
America is a democracy, of course, but also an open political system, vulnerable to influence peddling by the special interest groups, on the top of which are the Zionist Americans, who have taken the American political institutions hostage, in service of Israel’s strategic interests.
America needs to clean up the its political institutions of the foreign special interest groups, or cease its role as the world peace maker.