Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/18/lord-kinnock-labour-wont-win-a-general-election-again-in-my-life/

Citizen Wolfe Tone

“Trump, a man addicted to success, and—if his oration is any indication—a man with extremely limited reserves of self-control, can’t ever gamble, because he can’t ever lose. I’d bet that Trump is barely even familiar with the table rules, for the simple reason that he doesn’t have to be; all he has to know are the odds to know that he can’t beat them. Having owned the house, he’ll never tempt the house. All he can do is torch it.”

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/summer-of-trump-ac/?mc_cid=bfdf1e04ee&mc_eid=13cab6d648

Anyone who has paid any attention should, I say, conclude that Americans cannot be trusted to execute people because of the ineradicable racism/racial bigotry/bigotry towards ‘non-whites’ the permeates US society and  culture and religion and economics and policy and and and.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein

“Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link. In 2009, according to WikiLeaks, soon after Bashar Assad rejected the Qatar pipeline, the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria.”

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Why the Arabs don’t want us in Syria, Politico

https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

“It is a truism to state that the long and tortuous war in Vietnam profoundly wounded the United States. It shattered one administration, triggered the greatest national wave of protests since the Civil War, profoundly demoralized the American military establishment, and left behind what some called a “Vietnam syndrome,” others a “paradigm,” that nearly two decades later threatened to cripple any attempt to halt Saddam Hussein’s aggression in the Gulf. Central to this notion was the idea that Vietnam had demonstrated the futility of military action; as Joshua Muravchik has written, the Vietnam paradigm”

US Airpower Vietnam: Misuse Generates Misunderstanding

What was the effect of USG actions in Southeast Asia/Middle East?

To prevent the peaceful development of a potentially prosperous area under the control of its population.

By any measure, the USG has been successful in achieving these political economic goals. The same goals are/were/will be in play in Latin America and Africa.

Hussein’s “aggression” was encouraged and supported by the USG up to a point. Only when he slipped the leash was he exterminated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_a_New_American_Security

“”[…] Hillary Clinton’s expected choice as Defence Secretary, Michèle Flournoy, has just co-authored a report by the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS) in Washington that recommends that the destruction of ISIS should no longer be the overriding objective of the US in Syria, but that equal priority should be given to taking military action against President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Army. A new pro-US armed opposition would be built up to fight Assad, ISIS, al-Nusra and other al-Qaeda clones, a process that the report admits could take years – and “during that time the dangers posed by ISIS will remain”. This is not a marginal opinion among hawks in Washington, as a recently leaked memo from 51 serving State Department officials argued very much the same thing.  ”

and its agents should be in the same dock as Rosenberg..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Rosenberg

OBL

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/11/911-15-anniversary-united-states-lessons?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+morning+briefing+2016&utm_term=190003&subid=4588758&CMP=ema_a-morning-briefing_b-morning-briefing_c-US_d-1

shows that she is my father’s republican

https://theintercept.com/2016/09/08/hillary-clintons-national-security-advisors-are-a-whos-who-of-the-warfare-state/

This Day in Resistance History: Sitting Bull’s Railway Speech