How Former PA Senator William Sesler Defines Success
Posted by M. C. on October 26, 2013
William G. Sesler, former PA state senator, writes in the 6 Oct Erie Times-News that there is no substitute for the US in foreign affairs. Let us just say there is no one quite like the US in foreign affairs. He starts out
Let’s first consider the issues arising from Syria’s use of chemical weapons on Aug. 21 that killed more than 1,300 people, including more than 400 children. These acts were done in direct violation of international law.
While it is possible the government used gas the UN investigators have not laid blame on anyone. Iraq’s gas weapons which we never found were supposedly sent out of the country, presumably to Syria.
And where did Iraq get poison gas? The US of course along with anthrax, so Hussein could take out Iran. See here
Iran has hated our guts ever since the CIA overthrew their government and installed the Shah. Supplying chemical and biological weapons to Hussein did not help. The WMD issue is not a winner for us.
Poison Gas and anthrax. No substitute for that in a successful foreign policy.
Contrary to a characterization by some media pundits, these developments have not occurred because of some “offhand remarks” by Kerry. According to the New York Times, American and Russian diplomats have long discussed the problem of how to deal with Syria’s chemical weapons,
Kerry’s remarks seemed off-hand and quite condescending to this reader. Prior to the faux pas the war party had been talking war non stop. McCain, Graham and everyone else with a military contractor in their district or contributor list was “go for the mission”. Washington’s war drums were beating loud and clear. Peace was never a serious option. The only time we give peace a chance is when we have made disaster inescapable, like Viet Nam.
Apparently in Geneva the principal powers agreed on the basic structure of the resolution to eliminate chemical weapons and also to set up the framework for a peace conference. The resolution was approved almost immediately by the permanent members of the Security Council and Germany and then submitted the following day to the entire 15-member Security Council, where it was unanimously approved.
No one but the US government, McDonnell Douglas, Raytheon and their bought and paid for London cheering section wants this war.
First it constitutes an admission by Syria (previously denied) that it does have chemical weapons and, by implication, that these weapons were used on Aug. 21.
Implication? Whose implication? Bibi Netanyahu’s? Saudi Arabia’s? Does a sensible person start a war in a nuclear age based on implication? Aside from the US. There is no mention of Israel’s chemical nor nuclear weapons. Can you blame other countries in the region wanting to balance that?
That is biggest “implication” and no one wants to bring it up.
Mr. Sesler then goes on to say the civil war must end and the president told PBS’s Charlie Rose that we are not only concerned with moral outrage and humanitarian interests. “We can’t have the situation of ongoing chaos in a major country that borders a country like Jordan, which in turn borders Israel. And we have a legitimate need to be engaged and to be involved.”
Oh but we have been engaged all right! The Assads were our friends when they kicked out the Muslim Brotherhood. Now Assad the younger is out of favor. We have been secretly supplying the rebels and Al Qaeda through Saudi Arabia and Qatar. We have been funneling Libyan weapons into Syria. Our bungled foreign policy helped install the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and we are now helping Al Qaeda create a pan Sunni, anti-west, anti Christian Middle East. We are supporting “rebels” that summarily execute Syrian nationals and eat their body parts.
The Middle East has “foreign policy success” written all over it.
Those hundred thousand Syrian deaths we keep hearing about are on Washington’s hands. Though apparently not it’s conscience. Assad’s fate is much like that of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarek. It did not take long for Mubarek to go from our bosom buddy to dead meat once it became obvious his power over the people slipped.
…there is very little chance of any successful resolution of these three important issues — eliminating chemical weapons in Syria, ending the civil war and finding a solution to the nuclear program in Iran — without the leadership and guidance of the United States .
There is a book by a foreign service veteran Peter Van Buren
about how millions were spent on a frozen chicken plant in Iraq to help rebuild the country. A plant built in the desert where no one has electricity let alone refrigerators. Just one of many examples in the book that illustrate
the leadership and guidance of the United States.
The government can’t even pluck a chicken without screwing it up. Now we are going to democratize bunch who don’t want it and are carrying a thousand years of pent-up tribal hostility in their trigger fingers. Right.
A foreign policy of empire building by the West is the main cause of Middle East animosity towards us. The Arabs have been around the mulberry bush. They know better than to fall for Washington’s lies. Leaders like Karzhai will keep taking the pallets of cash we send and keep doing what they want.
And finally
But we must also remember that Bill Clinton doused the fires in the Balkans and demonstrated the high ideals of American intervention.
Aside: You rarely see the words “Clinton” and “morality” in the same essay.
The Balkan Muslims were being persecuted so Bubba Clinton and Madeline-500,00 deaths from the Iraq embargo was worth it/why do we have a military if we can’t use it-Albright decided to bomb the Balkans into the stone age. The genocide stories were lies much like the stories about Iraqi troops killing babies in Kuwaiti hospitals. Bubba had personal problems and a distraction was needed. Clinton and Albright took out Yugoslavia because they could. Easy pickings. Now the Muslims are persecuting everyone else, notably Christians. Same story, just the names have changed. The innocent are not protected.
You may have noticed that many US foreign policy success stories include increased Christian persecution.
This is how the US defines success and high ideals.
So how do we fix this mess?
First off don’t get foreign policy advice from politicians that are part of a horribly failed crony-capitalist system.
It is apparent a foreign policy dictated by crony wall street banksters, armament manufacturers, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, all bankrolled by the Fed’s printing press isn’t working.
I feel we are already beyond repair but if I am wrong and it is not too late-
We have to elect a breed of politician that will-
Turn our WAR department into a DEFENCE department.
End the Fed.
Close foreign military bases and bring troops home.
End the Fed. Fiat money is the grease that keeps war moving.
Stop bankrolling the UN, World Bank, IMF and NATO. Let everyone pay their own tab.
End the Fed. Fiat money is the hidden tax that cut buying power 95+% in the last 100 years.
Reduce the size of government and eliminate most government agencies.
End the Fed. Government, unlike real businesses, does not generate a profit and loss statement, for good reason. The Fed handles the loss side.
Keep our noses out of other business.
End the Fed. The Fed has sent $Trillons to prop up foreign banks and countries. When the banks decide it is safe to let those reserves loose we will see a new definition of inflation.
Let Europe and the Middle East worry about the Middle East.
I would add “break the CIA into a thousand pieces” like JFK said but I am not ready for what happened to him.
Let battles occur where the US has a chance of winning. The marketplace. There the little guy (that’s you and me) comes out a winner every time.
How to start? Throw the bums out and vote Libertarian.
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