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“You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse
When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You’re invisible now, you’ve got no secrets to conceal”– Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”
It’s always encouraging when a country’s military commander-in-chief – President Biden, in this case – announces in advance that he knows how he is going to respond militarily to the killing of three American soldiers at a base that supports an illegal and immoral U.S. “covert” war against Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, and all those who oppose the US/Israel slaughter of Palestinians. Such anxiety to show antecedently that he’s not sitting on his hands is touching. It’s the kind of announcement that all great military leaders make. It is the kind of arrogant stupidity that has long been the norm for U.S. presidents who love war but lose them all while masquerading as conquerors. So it goes, and so it will go.
To add to that, Biden says he doesn’t want a wider war as he creates one, since you can always take him at the opposite of his words. Yet he really has no secrets since his transparent corruption is almost palpable: He supports the Israeli/U.S. genocide in Gaza, the Ukrainian war against Russia, has expanded the war in the Middle East over the past few weeks, and will soon widen it further while the mass media report that he and his cast of fools are trying to “manage” their violent responses to prevent a wider war. The narrative has it that he is trying to outfox Netanyahu, who has often bragged how he has the U.S.A. in his back pocket.
It is hard not to laugh derisively. Now Biden issues an executive order to sanction some Israelis on the West Bank, as if this blatant political move to help his election chances with Muslim Americans is an act of moral statesmanship, while the blood of over 27,000 Palestinians drips from his shaky hands and increases daily.
My guess is that he will, as CIA veteran Larry Johnson suggests, execute his militarily meaningless bombing late today, Groundhog Day, not so much because he has to endlessly repeat similar macho acts of a Napolean in rags (which he does), but because the South Carolina primary is tomorrow and acts of war are appealing to the state’s military connected voters. Additionally, to timely “avenge” the lives of the three black soldiers killed in Jordan might help Biden with the crucial black vote in this primary that will positively launch his reelection campaign or set him back on his heels.
Acts of war have long been the magic rabbit American presidents have relied on to bail them out of political jeopardy and to show their macho toughness. In this case, as in others, such as Trump’s 2017 attack on Syria with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles for the false accusation of Syrian chemical weapons use (a continuation of Obama’s war against Syria), the actual damage inflicted is often minor while the headline grabbing showmanship is major. That these presidents legally justify these acts of war based on the war authorization Congress passed following September 11, 2001 is telling. The so-called war on terror and a supine Congress is the gift that keeps giving the warfare state carte blanche to attack and kill whomever it damn well pleases.
In Biden’s case today, these are the actions of a desperado, a war-loving bumbling puppet who is over or under or out of his head as he feigns outrage at the killing of three soldiers who were placed in a spot where their lives were at risk because they were cogs in an imperial war machine. Pawns in the game. A very dangerous game in which the Zionists leaders of Israel are as desperate as Biden and whose secret operatives are no doubt plotting a desperate scheme to try to expand the war. Who is jerking whose chain may be questionable, but the dogs of war are barking.
“When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose.”
As Finian Cunningham has just written, “Biden has led U.S. imperialism out of the quagmire of Afghanistan into an even bigger quagmire in the Middle East. With the goading by his equally brainless political rivals, the Americans are plowing further into disaster.”
No rival politician to Biden dares challenge his allegiance to the Israel Lobby and what the inestimable CIA veteran Ray McGovern calls the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex, (MICIMATT), for they too are captives of it. A small demurral on this or that minor point they may make, but they essentially support the imperial hubris of the warfare state and its symbiotic relationship with Netanyahu and his ilk.
We are talking about very stupid leaders who have never learned from their losses and are risking a major war.
Cunningham writes, “With over 50 military bases strung across the Middle East in 10 countries and with over 50,000 U.S. troops stationed in the region, the Americans are sitting ducks for the resistance. The advent of drones and newer missile technology is a new realm of warfare the Americans have not adapted to with their land garrisons in remote deserts and gaudy warships. . . . They have no idea what is coming to them given the long history of U.S. aggression, provocation, and illegal occupation in the region.”
There are even many usually astute critics of U.S. foreign policy who have recently claimed that the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) recent ruling was a win for the Palestinians, which it was not, as the ICJ appointed Netanyahu to “prevent and punish” those responsible for “genocidal acts.” Should one laugh? (See this and this.) The savage Israeli attacks on Gaza continue apace with 124 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours and well over a thousand killed since the ruling. Spinning the ruling to accord with one’s hopes and well-intentioned wishes will not help the victims of the genocide but will only intimate that international law is somehow still operative when it is not.
So the emperor has no clothes or is dressed in rags and we all await Punxsutawney Joe to tell us which way the wind blows.
“He’s not selling any alibis/ As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes/And say, ‘Do you want to make a deal?”
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Great summary of current events.
Every indication, however, is that this current system is on it’s last legs.
Too much, is too much, and it’s been far too much for far too long.
The US will be neutered, Western Europe will crumble, and Israel will be destroyed.
We are in the death throes now, and that sound you hear is the gurgling death rattle of the dying western hegemon, and all of it’s lackeys.
It’s coming, and soon!
We already got Chris Hedges to do the Eeyore shtik, that’s annoying enough. Everybody knew this law would have to be enforced at gunpoint – this is Izzies and beltway assholes, FFS. World War III is going to execute this order. The Resistance is on it already, with Iran on deck and Russia and China in the hole. This case dots the i’s and crosses all the t’s for when you hang Marlowe and Cohen and their Secret Agent Bibi at the postwar tribunal.
The most cogent criticism of the ruling I saw was, Why didn’t the plaintiffs cite the Russia/Ukraine ceasefire order as precedent?
But that was sort of a bullshit case. Besides, in enjoining the definition of genocide point-by-point, the order goes further than a ceasefire would, by including all the stealth extermination Article 2(c) tricks which have gone on all along.
And the idea that punishment is left to Netanyahu, that’s false. Under the complementarity principle of universal jurisdiction, if the Izzies are unwilling to prosecute their genocidaires, it’s open season on them. Any country or forum can try them. With no statute of limitations. So they need to watch where they go. Some will need to hunker down at home and paint puppies.
Most importantly, this sets the precedent for putting US criminals in the dock. Everybody hates Izzies, they only have 300 shitty little nukes, half damp squibs, and their military is tearful 20-year-old Lieutenant Colonels shitting in their pullups. This is easy. The endgame is trying the CIA impunity regime.
So cheer up, get some hookers & blow and be pleased for once.
Love how this clueless boomer quotes “Bob Dylan” (aka Robert Zimmerman) at the start of the article without a shred of irony.
Why isn’t the death penalty on the books for Politicians, if found guilty, of promoting and supplying the means for mass killings?
Sadam Hussain, the Hague show trials post WW2 all had the death penalty but in the West we reward our killers look at Blair, Obama, Bush and Cheney…this sends a powerful message to other world leaders…arm yourself to the teeth otherwise you can be executed if Washington thinks fit to do so.
What sort of world is now in operation? Is it one where the populations passively watch others been murdered until its their turn while these liars and cheats have a wonderful life at the top?
You don’t fight you lose.
You misunderstand. Biden was just buying time to give Iran and its proxies time to move all the important people out of sites likely to be bombed. I wouldn’t be surprised if team Biden actually provided a list in advance to Iran just to be doubly sure that no one of consequence gets killed in these publicity strikes meant to pacify the public, especially black voters (since the 3 dead US service people were all black).
Biden at heart is a Christian, god loving, wimp pacifist, He really does not want to make decisions where anyone is killed, even the enemy.
I’ve always thought Donovan was the superior folk musician.
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Savage little Britons!
The West failed when they thought by bringing in many people from different cultures that they would learn our ways and mortality and seed it back to their countries of origin. What a failure that has been, all that has happened is the West has debased and destroy itself by becoming amoral in behavior and culture, Bidet is just a representation of this debasement.
The path to hell is paved with good intentions, we are now, in the west, living in hellish societies.
Biden’s strings seem to be pulled by different people every day. Now we have to consider where the latest primary is to see what US policy will be?
Why? Why would they care how primary votes might tally when they don’t care what voters have said plainly in national elections for over forty years?
Clear voter preference for no foreign wars, no runaway industries, and no immigration — voters have been against these things. We get them anyway.
So Biden cares about the South Carolina primary? I doubt Biden even remembers where South Carolina is.
Is it just because Dylan is a Jew?
No, follyofwar, check out Neighborhood Bully. It’s pure Jew supremacist whining set to twangy folk shit. Dylan’s a Zionazi in good standing.
But his election and possible re-election indicates that it is the best that the American people have at this moment, because with the option Trump has with his legal problems it will be even worse.
It was easy for Biden to pull out of Afghanistan, no sense in guarding poppy fields when fentanyl is the new drug of choice. However, the U.S. has to stay in Syria and Iraq to cover Israel’s back while the genocide is ongoing. A few Jews get a bloody nose at a concert and Tel Aviv orders Washington to send half its Navy and it does. Same old story Bibi says jump and America says how high?
Actually you should know that those legal problems are just improving his support. They are all politically motivated and the voting public beginning to see the vitriolic dishonesty of his opposition’s schemes. Who will count the votes will become very important.
He didn’t just pull out, he ran out after assuring everyone that Afghanistan was strong and stable.
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Donovan was better. He did however venture into the dark side when he fathered a child with the Jewess Enid Karl.
You can’t win them all. She probably did some black magic on him.
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Important to point out…that is a prerequisite for having open doors in entertainment, regardless of talent. Weinstein factor.