Failure Trifecta
Nothing pays like failure in the misadventures of America's National Security State. The Democrats proudly announced a “record” pay out of $26 million last night as three of our licensed to kill presidents stumbled across the wire.
Most telling about this election year is the greatest accomplishment of Joe Biden's presidency, of his fifty year career in DC, the pullout of American forces from Afghanistan will never be mentioned. You don't see it at the top of his website or mentioned in any stump speech.
Brown University released a study showing the 20 year Afghanistan project cost $2.3 trillion and 243,000 lives. Remember Obama's first move on entering the White House was to up the ante in Afghanistan — more troops, more money, more carnage.
Afghanistan was part of the now decades long National Security State policy of raining chaos across the Middle East, Gaza its latest tragic manifestation. In another main element of this policy, Mr. Bill, the last old, haggard dog across the wire last night, claimed for all 8 years of his presidency Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction by which he defended brutal sanctions. His Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, asked directly about the resulting half-million children's deaths replied, “We think the price is worth it.”
And why wouldn't you? In 1998, two days before his blowjob impeachment vote, Mr. Bill launched strikes on Baghdad. He addressed the American people, “Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.”
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report released in 2006 definitively stated Iraq had ended and begun destroying all its WMD's in 1991, just as Iraq always claimed.
I recently ran across the sublime personage of Isabelle Eberhardt. She wrote at the turn of the 20th century of France's brutal colonizing of Algeria. It might as well been written today:
Where are the principles?
I've heard men talk of principles, of morality, of justice, as the toll of slaughter rises all about.
What are the principles?
From the Chamber of Deputies we hear the calls of truth and honor as the Arab nation is throttled in its sleep.
Principles here?
What madmen think there are principles involved in starvation and torture.
There are no principles. There are no honorable men. All about are fools thrashing in the darkness. All about are thieves drowning in the blood.
This world of honor is a lie. So let dishonor be the rule and chaos the domain of our lives.
