U.S. Foreign Policy Is Run By Unelected Maniacs

Robert Kagan was one of the principal architects of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). PNAC was a think tank that promoted, as its name clearly states, the idea that the United States should play THE dominant role in shaping global politics in the 21st Century. Their wording was that the United States should adopt a stance of “benevolent global hegemony”, but the use of violence and threats of violence would be part of that benevolent leadership. This was born out in the Bush Administration, which had many PNAC members in prominent positions when it attacked Iraq. Once upon a time Democrats opposed such overt wars of aggression and empire building. Once upon a time.

General Wesley Clark was told shortly after 9/11 that Iraq would be attacked, followed by Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally Iran. The list, while not 100% accurate, has been amazingly prescient. The goal of a world ruled by the dictates of the United States has become the norm among American politicians and non-elected people such as Elliot Abrams, Michael Bolton, and others. Robert Kagan’s fellow member of PNAC, Bill Krystol, can be seen regularly on CNN and MSNBC. Kagan writes regular editorials for The Washington Post.

Robert Kagan has a wife. Her name is Victoria Nuland. In 2014, when protests were occurring in Ukraine against the democratically elected government, Nuland was in the thick of things, handing out cookies. Nothing nefarious was going on, she just really likes to bake. Well, she was recorded specifying who should be the next leader of Ukraine after the democratically elected president was overthrown, but mainly it was about the cookies. And she did say “Fuck the E.U.”, which might imply that she didn’t care what the E.U. thought about what we were doing in Ukraine, but perhaps it was just because Angela Merkel didn’t take a cookie when it was offered.

Few now remember it, but in the buildup to the Iraq War, MSNBC was changing its look and trying to outdo FOX News. Unwilling to actually stand against the war, MSNBC fired popular anti-war hosts like Phil Donahue and Jesse Ventura. You won’t see the likes of them anywhere east of RT anymore. In their place they hired someone who made Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly look conciliatory by comparison. That person’s name was Joe Scarborough. It’s hard to find video of him from that era, but I can never forget the disgusting pro-Bush warmongering he engaged in. I’d sooner forgive Hannity than I could believe that Joe Scarborough had changed his stripes. Of course, he hasn’t. He might give a head fake here and there but Joe is the same old neo-conservative he’s always been.

Joe Scarborough has a wife. Her name is Mika Brzezinski. She’s the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, who decided it would be a good idea to support the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, believing that arming both domestic and foreign Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan would be a good way of sticking a finger in the eye of the Soviet Union. 20 years later, Zbigniew’s daughter made a name for herself covering “ground zero” after the 9/11 attacks. Attacks that were made, may I remind you, by some of the very “heroes” her father supported in Afghanistan. The result of 9/11 led to a 21 year war in Afghanistan. The main thrust of Mika’s journalistic career is her support for women’s rights. Before her Father’s involvement in Afghanistan, women there used to hold positions such as scientist, teacher, and doctor. Things are different now.

The Democratic Party has become the new home for the evil that once infested the Republican Party. I’m not saying the Republican Party has gotten any better, I’m just saying the infection has spread. The Republican Party is like that zombie in the movie who’s eating brains, whereas the Democratic Party is that person who’s turning gray but the spouse (voter/supporter) isn’t quite willing to admit their significant other is also infected. Those kind of zombies are always the worst kind, because they are in the position to do the most damage. They are aided by those unwilling to accept the truth that those they once loved are now dangerous to all living human beings.

Scarborough, Brzezinski, Kagan, and Nuland are all holding hands now in their support of Ukraine. Surely this must give some of us pause. Surely we must wonder if the very people who have gotten everything so utterly wrong have now gotten this issue so utterly right. Perhaps Russia is every bit as evil as they say. Perhaps the Soviet Union and Iraq and Libya and Somalia and The Sudanese government and the Syrian government were every bit as evil as we have been told. The question that yet remains to be asked is, do these people have a track record of supporting actions that have made things better, or do they consistently support actions that make things worse for the people they are claiming to help? I think a cursory review of history will show that the actions they’ve supported have caused needless suffering.

The early results on Ukraine are in, and they are not good. The best-case scenario establishment media can put forward is that Ukraine can still win, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the selling of their country to foreign investors such as Blackrock. Ukraine stands to be the next Afghanistan. And while the establishment media seems to have forgotten all about Afghanistan, things are not going well there nor are they predicted to trend upward anytime soon.

This is the predictable result of an ideology of a globe-spanning empire dictating how the world is to be run. Coexistence is not on the menu. A democratic institution such as The United Nations is abused and replaced with military alliances such as NATO, SEATO, AFRICOM, and other U.S. led organizations. The ideas behind the Project For A New American Century are still very influential, the people who have pushed it for decades are still in positions of power. It is an ideology that has spread untold suffering to numerous nations.

Next up will be China, followed by an endless series of smaller actions against whatever flare ups will inevitably result from a world in which one nation tries to dictate terms to every other nation. Death and destruction will reign so long as such people are permitted to remain in positions of power and influence. And it will all be done in the name of democracy, freedom, and peace.