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US Out of Korea – LewRockwell

Posted by M. C. on September 6, 2017

“As our case is new,” said Abraham Lincoln, “we must think anew and act anew.”

We are not good at that. We need to get better.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/09/patrick-j-buchanan/us-out-of-korea-4/

The world has changed dramatically since the 1950s. But U.S. policy failed to change commensurately.

The basic question that needs addressing:

Why do we still keep 28,000 troops in South Korea as a trip wire to bring us into a second Korean war from its first hours, a war that could bring nuclear strikes on our troops, bases, and, soon, our nation? Read the rest of this entry »

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Trump Intel Chief: North Korea Learned From Libya War to “Never” Give Up Nukes

Posted by M. C. on July 31, 2017

https://theintercept.com/2017/07/29/dan-coats-north-korea-nukes-nuclear-libya-regime-change/

THE MEDIA IS NOW filled with headlines about North Korea’s missile test on Friday, which demonstrated that its ICBMs may be able to reach the continental U.S. What isn’t mentioned in any of these stories is how we got to this point — in particular, what Dan Coats, President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, explained last week at the Aspen Security Forum.

North Korea’s 33-year-old dictator Kim Jong-un is not crazy, said Coats. In fact, he has “some rationale backing his actions” regarding the country’s nuclear weapons. That rationale is the way the U.S. has demonstrated that North Korea must keep them to ensure “survival for his regime, survival for his country.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Antiwar.com Original » The Five Blinding Myths About Iran » Print

Posted by M. C. on March 12, 2017

http://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2017/03/10/the-five-blinding-myths-about-iran/print/

Myth Three: Iran is a Destabilizing Force in the Middle East and is the World’s Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism

The day after the US imposed the new sanctions on Iran, General Mattis declaredthat “As far as Iran goes, this is the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.” CIA director Mike Pompeo has similarly called Iran “the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.” And Trump, himself, told Bill O’Reilly that Iran is “the number one terrorist state.”

There is no support for this claim.

Recent attempts to link Iran to terrorism have all been revealed as perjuries, 

The biggest myth. The leading Middle East sponsors of terrorism are 1. Our friend Saudi Arabia 2. Our friend Israel 3. Our friend Turkey. They support Al Qaeda directly and ISIS particularly in overthrowing Syria and in the case of Turkey using Al Qaeda to kill Kurds. 

The biggest non ME sponsor of terrorism has to send troops to the other side of the planet to kill anything that moves in order to bring peace. It blows up wedding parties,  funeral processions and helps Saudis destroy the poorest country in the ME in order to win hearts and minds.

Be seeing you

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Mikhail Gorbachev: ‘It All Looks As If the World Is Preparing for War’

Posted by M. C. on January 27, 2017

http://time.com/4645442/gorbachev-putin-trump/

Former leader of bad Russia is anti-war.  He endured a coup attempt for his efforts. He tore down a wall if memory serves. 

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Another Perspective On Bad Boy Iran

Posted by M. C. on April 12, 2015

Whom has Iran Attacked? No one.

Whom has attacked Iran? US backed Iraq using US and UK supplied chemical weapons.

Is Iran developing nuclear weapons? Not according to the Mossad and our own National Intelligence Estimates.

From Eric Margolis

In fact, the real issue was not nuclear weapons, which Iran does not now possess, but Iran’s potential geopolitical power.

What Israel really feared was not Iran’s non-existent nuclear threat  but rather its ongoing support for the beleaguered Palestinians.

But for the United States, the geostrategic calculus is somewhat different. The Iranian revolution of 1979 profoundly challenged America’s Mideast imperium – what I call the American Raj after the manner in which the British Empire ruled India.

Supposedly Iran would attack Israel if it had a nuke. Israel has 80 to 200 nukes depending on whom you read. Between Israel and it’s US lapdog Iran would be turned into a sheet of glass in a nuclear conflict. The Iranians are not stupid. Read the rest of this entry »

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