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Posted 21 July 2017 - 08:44 AM

The United States has always held onto the narrative of the redeemer nation; the story Americans tell themselves about the purpose of their nation.

 

The narrative has existed from the beginning; it has only evolved and increased, but it has never changed.  America is God’s hand in world affairs. 

 

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States has gradually been losing this narrative.  America’s narrative of completing God’s mission was achieved.  George H.W. Bush offered a coda, a ceremonial war against Iraq, as demonstrating America’s achievement.

 

There are now competing narratives – both within and outside of the United States.  Actual people in actual places have become restless.

 

The narrative power has been lost; the narrative is being pushed by others: China, Russia, Muslims, even Europeans…but not Americans.

 

Does America drift for a while, or do we accept that we are no longer exceptional?  For the US to cease to see itself as something exceptional will take something like what Japan and Germany realized in World War Two. 

 

 https://www.lewrockw...eemer-nation-2/

 


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Posted 21 July 2017 - 10:24 AM

 


Does America drift for a while, or do we accept that we are no longer exceptional?  For the US to cease to see itself as something exceptional will take something like what Japan and Germany realized in World War Two. 

 

 https://www.lewrockw...eemer-nation-2/

 

 

 

Down without a fight?  Now, in the annals of history, that would be exceptional.


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Posted 03 August 2017 - 09:50 AM

Director/Producer Rory Kennedy’s “Last Days in Vietnam” [Netflix] Requires Mandatory Viewing! 

 

No one can really glorify a war that should not be fought in the first place. Such a war was invariably lost because of a major dereliction of duty by our JFK [Rory’s uncle], LBJ, Nixon, Kissinger, generals, et. al.  I recommend that our military and civilian representatives watch this film to understand one simple point. It’s easy to start a war but it is major b*tch to finish it, or even to win.

 

In any war zone, hundreds of thousands of civilians will be killed for nothing. We call that ‘collateral damage’. The real damage from the Vietnam War was created by our political and military leaders who had no idea of how to win or even lose a war sixteen thousand miles away.

 

I fear that we have repeated Vietnam over and over again in: 

  • Iraq
  • Afghanistan
  • Syria
  • Africa
  • Yemen
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  • Now American citizenry must defy any new attempts at creating unnecessary wars.  “The Last Days of Vietnam” illustrates a metaphor that has lasted for over the past fifty years. We have won no wars and never will as long as we act in a self-delusional manner, invading foreign countries for nonsensical ethereal concepts, like the “War on Terror”!  A complete oxymoron!

     

  • Ho Chi Minh warned us :

    “You will kill ten of us, but we will kill one of you; in the end, you will tire of us first, and then leave defeated.”

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  • Years later when I negotiated the Cambodian Peace Treaty with the famous Vietnamese Foreign Minister Lee Duc Tho, he said to me:

    “You Americans can win any war. But, you are lazy and undisciplined in your thinking; you will never really finish to the end.”

    Nothing has changed in fifty years!! 

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  •  http://stevepieczeni...nam-a-must-see/

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Posted 03 August 2017 - 02:09 PM

 

Director/Producer Rory Kennedy’s “Last Days in Vietnam” [Netflix] Requires Mandatory Viewing! 

 

No one can really glorify a war that should not be fought in the first place. Such a war was invariably lost because of a major dereliction of duty by our JFK [Rory’s uncle], LBJ, Nixon, Kissinger, generals, et. al.  I recommend that our military and civilian representatives watch this film to understand one simple point. It’s easy to start a war but it is major b*tch to finish it, or even to win.

 

In any war zone, hundreds of thousands of civilians will be killed for nothing. We call that ‘collateral damage’. The real damage from the Vietnam War was created by our political and military leaders who had no idea of how to win or even lose a war sixteen thousand miles away.

 

I fear that we have repeated Vietnam over and over again in: 

  • Iraq
  • Afghanistan
  • Syria
  • Africa
  • Yemen
  •  
  •  
  •  
  • Now American citizenry must defy any new attempts at creating unnecessary wars.  “The Last Days of Vietnam” illustrates a metaphor that has lasted for over the past fifty years. We have won no wars and never will as long as we act in a self-delusional manner, invading foreign countries for nonsensical ethereal concepts, like the “War on Terror”!  A complete oxymoron!

     

  • Ho Chi Minh warned us :

    “You will kill ten of us, but we will kill one of you; in the end, you will tire of us first, and then leave defeated.”

  •  

  • Years later when I negotiated the Cambodian Peace Treaty with the famous Vietnamese Foreign Minister Lee Duc Tho, he said to me:

    “You Americans can win any war. But, you are lazy and undisciplined in your thinking; you will never really finish to the end.”

    Nothing has changed in fifty years!! 

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  •  http://stevepieczeni...nam-a-must-see/

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Made by Robert F. Kennedy's daughter.

 

Interesting.  Thanks for the heads-up, super bot.

 

RORY: THE QUIET KENNEDY


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Posted 08 August 2017 - 10:34 AM

U.S. Dropped 26,171 Bombs on 7 Muslim-Majority Countries in 2016
 
President Obama's last year in office was marked by heavy bombing in the Middle East and South Asia. 
 
President Obama was the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2009.
 
 
 

http://www.alternet....-countries-2016


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Posted 16 August 2017 - 08:15 AM

Why did Obama & McCain destroy Syria? 

 

Syria’s great historic cities of Aleppo and Damascus have been virtually destroyed—along with its lesser towns and villages and nearly the entirety of its economy. There are 400,000 dead and 11 million internal and external refugees from an original population of hardly 18 million. The human toll of death, displacement, disease and disorder which has been inflicted on this hapless land staggers the imagination. 

 

So why? The answer is straight forward. Washington has become an Imperial City populated by a permanent class of sunshine patriots and self-appointed global field marshals like Senator McCain, who do the bidding of the military/industrial complex and its far-flung Warfare State apparatus.

 

That is, they identify and demonize the enemies and villains that are needed to keep the money flowing into the Empire’s $700 billion budget. In this case, Assad drew the short straw because as a member of the greater Shiite confession in the Islamic world he was naturally allied with the Shiite regime of Iran.

 

It was a proxy war and a provocation designed to prosecute the real neocon target——the endlessly vilified Shiite regime in Tehran. 

 

 https://www.lewrockw...an/bravo-trump/

 


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Posted 02 October 2017 - 05:45 AM

This isn’t the first time America’s unelected power establishment has manipulated its Russia narrative to fit something it was already doing anyway. Their anointed queen, Hillary Clinton, was already scaring people and trying to start a war with Russia way back in mid-2015. This was long before any allegations of hacking surfaced.

 

It was even before Russia became directly involved in the war in Syria and Clinton started terrifying everyone by continuing to advocate a no-fly zone on a region where Russian military planes were conducting operations. The establishment was gearing up for dangerous escalations with Russia long before it manufactured its official reason for those escalations. 

 

America’s unelected power establishment wanted a confrontation with Russia long before it started advancing its unsubstantiated accusations of election meddling, and then lo and behold it produced a reason for that confrontation.

 

America’s unelected power establishment wanted to oust Saddam Hussein long before the accusations about weapons of mass destruction surfaced, and then lo and behold it produced a reason to oust Saddam.

 

If you believe their stories, America’s power establishment is just a compassionate force of good in the world trying to protect innocent people from harm. Ignore their stories and look at their actions and you see an aggressively neoconservative power structure using military force all around the globe to ensure American hegemony and prevent the rise of any potential superpower it might have to compete with in the future. 

 

 

 https://medium.com/@...to-6ed8bcb55e0f

 


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Posted 01 December 2017 - 07:14 AM

2011

 

Hillary/McCain/Deep State overthrow Gaddafi in the name of "freedom and democracy."

 

2017

 

Criminal gangs dominate Libya. Criminal gangs sell black slaves at auction. 

 

 

 https://www.theroot....-tra-1820879083

 

 


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Posted 10 December 2017 - 10:06 AM

CIA/Israeli/Saudi alliance headed for defeat in Syria.  Moscow and Syria victorious. 

 

As the neoconservative push for Middle East chaos via atomizing Syria unravels, Putin will be working the situation to allow Trump the opportunity to save face, declare victory over ISIS and leave. 

 

“The militants in Syria have sustained a decisive blow and now there is a realistic chance to end the multi-year civil war,” Putin declared. 

 

There are signs that:

 

  • Donald Trump has regained control over foreign policy and is solidifying his control over his administration.
  • Major pillars of our overseas empire are being destroyed by Trump.
  • A framework for peace in the Middle East is coming together now that the neoconservatives have been revealed as the big losers in Syria. 

 

https://tomluongo.me...ding-headlines/

 


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Posted 05 March 2018 - 09:21 AM

Putin’s Ultimatum is the Next Stage of the War 

 

We now know first-hand how good Russian electronic warfare (EW) is, c.f. the airstrike on Al-Shairat last April where less than 40% of those Tomahawks hit their intended targets.

 

Russia’s armed forces, up to this point, are designed around rapid response within 1000 kilometers of Russia’s borders.  It is not designed around global force projection.

 

These new weapons fundamentally change that stance.  And much of the current geopolitical knife-fighting will come to a rapid close because of it. 

 

 

https://tomluongo.me...age-of-the-war/


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