U.S. Foreign Policy 'Elites' Eagerly Await Expansion Of Overseas Wars Under Hillary Clinton

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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Your average American Hillary Clinton supporter will smugly head to the polls on November 8th, entirely self-assured of his or her vital role in the defeat of fascism in these United States. It won’t take long for such childish delusions to be vanquished by the horror of subsequent reckless and unnecessary imperial conflagrations that will be inevitably unleashed by their savior throughout the world.

The extreme dangers faced by the planet as a result of neocon warmonger Hillary Clinton becoming President have been apparent for a very long time. Oliver Stone and many others have vocally warned about it, and I’ve covered the topic on many occasions; including in the following posts:

“We’re Going to War” – Oliver Stone Opines on the Dangerous Extremism of Neocon Hillary Clinton

More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3

More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3 – Part 2

Lifelong Democrat and Former RFK Speechwriter Comes Out For Trump

Now, courtesy of a newly published article at The Washington Post, we are once again forced to confront this very uncomfortable reality. Here are a few of the more disturbing excerpts from today’s piece:

There is one corner of Washington where Donald Trump’s scorched-earth presidential campaign is treated as a mere distraction and where bipartisanship reigns. In the rarefied world of the Washington foreign policy establishment, President Obama’s departure from the White House — and the possible return of a more conventional and hawkish Hillary Clinton — is being met with quiet relief.

 

The Republicans and Democrats who make up the foreign policy elite are laying the groundwork for a more assertive American foreign policy via a flurry of reports shaped by officials who are likely to play senior roles in a potential Clinton White House.

 

It is not unusual for Washington’s establishment to launch major studies in the final months of an administration to correct the perceived mistakes of a president or influence his successor. But the bipartisan nature of the recent recommendations, coming at a time when the country has never been more polarized, reflect a remarkable consensus among the foreign policy elite.

 

This consensus is driven by broad-based backlash against a president who has repeatedly stressed the dangers of overreach and the limits of American power, especially in the Middle East. “There’s a widespread perception that not being active enough or recognizing the limits of American power has costs,” said Philip Gordon, a senior foreign policy adviser to Obama until 2015. “So the normal swing is to be more interventionist.”

 

Taken together, the studies and reports call for more-aggressive American action to constrain Iran, rein in the chaos in the Middle East and check Russia in Europe.

 

The studies, which reflect Clinton’s stated views and the direction she is likely to take if she is elected, break most forcefully with Obama on Syria. Virtually all these efforts, including a report that will be released Wednesday by the liberal Center for American Progress, call for stepped up military action to deter President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Russian forces in Syria.

This is what passes off as “liberal” these days.

The proposed military measures include calls for safe zones to protect moderate rebels from Syrian and Russian forces. Most of the studies propose limited American airstrikes with cruise missiles to punish Assad if he continues to attack civilians with barrel bombs, as is currently happening in besieged Aleppo. So far, Obama has staunchly resisted any military action against the Assad regime.

 

Even pinprick cruise missile strikes designed to hobble the Syrian air force or punish Assad would risk a direct confrontation with Russian forces, which are scattered throughout the key Syrian military bases that would be targeted.

 

“You can’t pretend you can go to war against Assad and not go to war against the Russians,” said a senior administration official who is involved in Middle East policy and was granted anonymity to discuss internal White House deliberations.

 

Inside the White House, senior administration officials regularly dismissed calls for military force from the foreign policy establishment as the product of “too much college, not enough knowledge,” writes Derek Chollet, a former top Obama administration official, in his new book “The Long Game.”

 

Other White House officials derisively referred to Washington’s foreign policy experts as “the Blob.”

As much as I’ve criticized Obama for his many costly foreign adventures, he is an absolute peacenik compared to Clinton. Let’s never forget that the biggest foreign policy disaster of his Presidency, the destruction of Libya, was the brainchild of his then Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“Everyone has kind of given up on the Middle East. We have been at it for 15 years, and a lot of Americans think it is hopeless,” Hadley said. “We think it is not.”

What would we do without people like Hadley around to screw things up?

“The dynamic is totally different from what I saw a decade ago” when Democratic and Republican elites were feuding over the invasion of Iraq, said Brian Katulis, a senior Middle East analyst at the Center for American Progress. Today, the focus among the foreign policy elite is on rebuilding a more muscular and more “centrist internationalism,” he said.

This is an absolute disaster waiting to happen. As I tweeted earlier today:

Brace yourselves everyone, the next four years are going to be very, very ugly.

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Dead Canary's picture

Oh Jesus titty fuckin CHRIST people! Just give me my $500 silver so I can retire with hookers and blow!

 

hedgeless_horseman's picture

 

I wish I could convince everyone, especially women, to read, Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947, in order that they might begin to understand exactly what the world may be coming to...and soon.

GRDguy's picture

And a book on how they got there:

They Thought They Were Free (The Germans, 1933-45)

Milton Mayer - Published 1955

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

Creative_Destruct's picture

"Virtually all these efforts, including a report that will be released Wednesday by the liberal Center for American Progress, call for stepped up military action to deter President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Russian forces in Syria."

For fucksakes neocon BLOBS -STOP THIS MURDEROUS SHIT!!!

Best solution: all people, living and DEAD....VOTE TRUMP

And send the War-Whore into one of the hell-holes she's created so she can REALLY get sniped...

MalteseFalcon's picture

Talked with a yet another Hillary Rodent supporter (third in a series).

Got tired of her rebob, so I figured I'd drop the hammer.

Me: "Hillary is NOT a peace candidate.  As Sec. of State she authored the Libyan and Syrian conflicts."

Her: "Hillary is a woman, of course she is for peace."

Me: "Her record as Sec. of State says otherwise."

Her: "It must be someone else's fault."

Me:  "Madeline Albright was Hillary's mentor."

Her: "Who?"

Creative_Destruct's picture

And these idiots get to vote....Democracy, the worst of all forms of government, EXCEPT for all the others, as they say.

toro's picture

And who are they? This elusive "elite"? https://goo.gl/bFYusM

philipat's picture

Hey toro, previously mofio then santafe then Aristotle of Greece then Gargoyle then bleu then oops then lance-a-lot then most recently Loftie.

You are a serial spammer and a serial pain in the ass. Might I politely suggest that you go fuck yourself? And get a life.

PS. You might have noticed that my attempt to expose you for what you are is always the same. That’s because your Spam is always the same (Using fake links to your BS site which has no connection to your comments; which are deliberately dramatic to mislead people into responding or clicking on the fake link) so it seems only fair that my exposure of your crap should also always be the same. An eye for an eye.

MzMolly's picture

Why are you so sure? I truly respect your comments. it was your comments, months ago, about the choice between Clinton and Trump, "choose wisely" that was the beginning of me waking up, HUGE for me.

Once you awake, there is no turning back. Thank you Hedgeless_Horseman

hedgeless_horseman's picture

 

From one warmblood passenger to another, you are quite welcome.

Read the book. 

It will likley be very difficult for you to get through many of the book's graphic portions, but it is necessary to instill in the reader the lessons that I believe may save your life one day, and maybe even your soul, if you believe in such things.

You will see after you finish it, and then reflect on it for a time.

asteroids's picture

I wouldn't put it past the stupid cunt to play a game of chicken with the Russian fleet. Remember Donald is right. Putin is playing chess while Hitlery plays checkers.

cheech_wizard's picture

Speaking of chess moves...

http://eng.syria.mil.ru/en/index/syria/livecam.htm

Standard Disclaimer: Putin serves up another large steaming pile of dung for the US State Department to chow down on.

 

MzMolly's picture

My parent lived I. Norway during WWII. My mom lived near a German torture building. When they would pull the fingernails off, the screams were the loudest my mom said. They paced the roads with the dead.
I still ear Tursk Fisk (fish, dried and hung) kinda like beef jerky.

Most all our traditional foods are really homegrown, self made with no fancy processing. I can cook them all and have a potatoe, carrot, cabbage and rutabager garden. Beef cows. Chickens, pigs and so on, Thank God my husband loves most of it.

I say this because we are prepared to weather a lot, war, depression etc and be able to help our family and neighbors.

But somehow, I just can not wrap my head around a tradagy of the like in the book you recommended. Maybe I'm not truly awake.

old naughty's picture

+1.

Why? Is anyone surprised...

heads in sand, still.

 

Que sera sera,

oncemore's picture

u seem to be of jewish religion. that says it all.

inosent's picture

I will make it my next book, thanks. saw the movie (haha ... bad joke) on YT. I think of this scene in Dresden, where they found the vaporized remains (from the incendiary devices dropped from above) of what turned out to be a mother covering her little girl, doing what a mother would do, in a last attempt to somehow shield her child and protect her, their bodies welded together by the scorching heat of the bomb. What pain they might have felt before they died is hard to say, but hopefully they died instantly.

Never Forget! jews were the architects of this WWII brand of scorched earth. Where they suffered NO harm, there was NO jewish 'holocaust', the jews, built on their sickening levitical traditions of death, doom and destruction, led by the demon god yahweh, in their insane obsessive drive to get their jewish state, in their perpetual insane drive to conquer the world, were behind it all.

And the reason why this is relevant to THIS discussion RIGHT NOW, is because it affects us all today very personally and individually. The SAME sorts of jew azhlz are in the same sorts of positions of power, the baton from their wicked fathers was passed to them, and now they work on the next phase, greater israhell, and ultimately (so they insanely think) the subjugation of the earth, while we (in their twisted minds) the goyim animals slave away, they becoming the new 'pharaoh' and we their slaves.

DT is perfect for the job because 50% of his policies are totally anti-jew agenda. He says a lot of ass kissing things about israhell, and did make a comment about jerusalem being the jews hoty city (both are terrible), but on the other hand he is 100% opposed to nation building, and wants to partner (!!!) with the jews's arch enemies (Russia, Syria and Iran) to use their money and blood to kill off the jew created 'asset' ISIS.

When ppl refuse to learn their history, the same things just keep happening over and over and over again. To end this miserable cycle of planetary dis-ease, we MUST destroy all things zionist.

If all you can do, dear reader, is to at least understand the truth of that statement, a changed mind is a positive step in the right direction. It is when ALL of our minds agree on this extremely important issue, and clearly understand WHY it is so important, only THEN can we avoid the darkness that continues to loom ahead.

We have been forced, like slaves, to walk down the path of doom because we have allowed jews to hijack our nation on every conceivable level. Blind fools don't see it, and based on a false sense of feel-good i am not a hater bulls- (read anti semite) they simply refuse to call out the jew, and focus on the fact that the jew is not interested in anything else except their wicked agenda of global domination, and they will stop at nothing to get it.

All the generals are satanic minions, who are under-educated dolts who do not know their history, and amusingly think their warring is somehow going to make America a great country, but the truth is these generals are just low life scum on the take, they don't give a f-k about anybody or anything except their testosterone bulls- action, wanting only to 'get some action' and 'kick some ass' - which, by the way, is one of the best reasons why it is inadvisable to have a standing army.

Anyway, I will read it, and I echo your wish, because this issue is completely central to what sort of future we all have in this world.

In this world - so far, at least - what is on the fringe should be the mainstream, but what is mainstream should be on the fringe. I hope I live to see the day where that changes.

 

 

 

TuPhat's picture

What a load of tripe.

IS BE's picture

It causes great cognititive Dissonance to break free from childhood propaganda and recognise the Three Semitic Death Cults for what they are, a product of florid Schizophrenia. 

Abandon the three Semitic Death Cults. Return to the religion of your ancestors. What ever it was.

You are being offered a false choice. Even the Jews can go back to worshipping Bal. Nothing dangerous about pouring wine 0ver a stone statue.

There is something very dangerous praying for Armageddon. 

The three Semitic Death Cults are no different to the Jonestown mob, but on a planet wide scale.

inosent's picture

Do you know who Richard Perle is? Remember those WMDs? Let me ask you a question, what benefit did you derive personally, like there was something in it for you, to have the jewSA bombing Iraq for 8 years? Anything?

Have you ever heard of the greater israel Yinon plan?

Have you read:

  1. The Controversy of Zion
  2. The Secret Behind Communism
  3. The International Jew
  4. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
  5. The Talmud

?

Do you know who has the controlling interest in nearly 100% of MSM, their names, and their tribal affiliation?

Same question, but the names of the Supreme Court judges that voted as a bloc to burden the nation with homosexual marriages and obamacare?

What about banking? Who are they? What is their tribe?

And let's talk about who is shaping foreign policy right now?

What is that policy? Make war with Russia, right? You have  been listening to hellary, right?

Why would you want that? Seriously, what do you gain personally for hellary to start a war with Russia?

And what of Syria, what benefit do you get? Anything?

What country lies just to the south of Syria?

And, let me ask you this, think now, on a personal level, seriously and honestly, what benefit did you receive for all the money and bombs the JewSA CORP took directly from your back pocket and gave to neo-faux-israhell? Anything?

And what benefit did you gain for Truman and his ilk to crater to jewish demands to not only 'vote' in the UN to create the jew state in palestine, but to strong arm other countries into doing so as well? Anything?

You are aware, are you not, that the moment the conspiracy was hatched to force the jew state in Palestine that there has been nothing but trouble in the middle east? Even to this very day?

Who gained the benefit?

If it wasn't you, and it was clearly not in America's interest, that leaves the forced jew state a benefit to a foreign power, does it not?

And why should the uSa (the real one) be subjugated to and humiliated by a foreign power? And pay for everything? And get absolutely nothing out of it?

Tripe?

Or are you shocked to read the jewish 'holocaust' never happened? Not only are there no facts to support that myth, but the facts and physical evidence utterly contradict the narrative. But you were never taught any relevant facts in your public school were you? None of us were.

But here we are, on the eve of yet another presidential election, and we are headed right back into another major war, for no interest to you, no benefit to you, none to the country, absolutely nothing, but upon examination we find a long list of cui bono for israhell, the jews, the zionist agenda.

Further, if you examine the record (the references I cited above will keep you busy), you will note how intensely aggressive the zionst jews are in the pursuit of their wicked zionist ambitions. They care not for any nation, only so long as they get what they want. To imagine these ppl would just stop with the 1948 UN vote is hopelessly naive. The establishment of the jew state was only a stepping stone along the path.

To really grasp the whole death cult thing, you really need to carefully read Deuteronomy, and certainly The Controversy of Zion.

And the jews will not blink to set tings up for a massive bloody war. They will never fight in it, they will never pay for it, and they will never die from it, except for, perhaps, that ordinary percentage of the population for those who affix a jew label to their forehead, as is precisely the case during the wars in Europe in the 1st half of the 20th century. In simple terms, if there were 1% jew population, 1% of the overall deaths in the war were jew. If the population was 75% German in a particular location, then 75% of the victims in that location would have been German. The holocaust myth states in an area where there are only 1% jew, the jews made up 140% of those killed in that location. It was useful propaganda, though, got everybody crying crocodile tears so the jews could get their 'win' in the UN - objectively a big loss, however, for the uSa, and the rest of the world.

Finally, I leave you with this excerpt from The Controversy of Zion. Here, we find the Jewish Congress had already anticipated a great world war when there was absolutely nothing going on at the time that would indicate there was any threat of one at all. This was in 1903. Ah, but did not one come in 1914? And another in 1939? And then another in 1967? And then another in 2003? And were they all shown historically in retrospect to have been built on false pretexts? And what of the cui bono? Hmm? No objective read of history can avoid the conclusion that of the 100,000,000 slaughtered and the trillions wasted, only jews and their apartheid jew state in Palestine gained anything. The rest of us lost, and if hellary gets elected, we will keep losing. But to my quote, with the salient portion in bold italic:

“From the point of view of the Talmudic rabbinate in Russia the matter was entirely different. They, too, had built up the legend of "persecution in Russia", while they worked against emancipation there, but this was for the purpose of fulfilling the ancient Law, which meant possession of Palestine and all subsequent things that the Law ordained. Acceptance of Uganda would have meant Doomsday for Talmudic Judaism. Dr. Weizmann describes Dr. Herzl's final humiliation. After the vote Herzl  went to see the Jews from Russia, who had turned their backs on him and walked out, in their committee room. "He came in, looking haggard and exhausted. He was received in dead silence. Nobody rose from his seat to greet him, nobody applauded him when he ended. . . It was probably the first time that Herzl was thus received at any Zionist gathering: he, the idol of all Zionists".

 It was also the last time. Within the year Dr. Herzl was dead, at the age of forty-four. No conclusion can be offered about his death. Judaist writers refer to it in cryptic terms. The Jewish Encyclopaedia says it was the result of what he endured and other authorities make similarly obscure, though significant, allusions. Those who during the centuries have been the object of anathema or excommunication by the ruling sect often have died soon and wretchedly. The student comes to feel that in this matter he approaches mysterious things, closed to all ordinary research.

 The curious thing is that Herzl's intimate, right-hand man and leading orator saw the shape of things, at that time and to come, with complete clarity. He displayed a foreknowledge as great as that of Leon Pinsker when he depicted the series of events to which Pinsker's "irresistible pressure on international politics" would lead. At the very congress where Herzl suffered his humiliation Max Nordau (an alias or pseudonym; his name was Suedfeld) gave this exact prognosis:

 "Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl, the Zionist congress, the English Uganda proposition, the future world war, the peace conference where, with the help of England, a free and Jewish Palestine will be created" (1903). Here spoke the initiate, the illuminate, the man who knew the strength and purpose of "the international". (Max Nordau helped the process, the course of which he foretold, by writing such best-sellers of the 1890's as Degeneration, in which he told the West that it was irredeemably corrupt). Even Max Nordau did not spell out his conclusion to its logical end. Another delegate did that, Dr. Nahum Sokoloff, who said: "Jerusalem will one day become the capital of world peace". That the ambition is to make it the capital of the world is clear in 1956, when the Western governments stand in daily fear of its annexation to the Zionist state; whether mankind would find it to be the capital of peace remains to be seen.  ”

The Controversy of Zion, pp 206-207

 

oncemore's picture

Many people here in Europe would not mind to see USA torched down the way you described it in Dresdn.

We do not like USA. It is occupying forece, run by dual citizens. A rascist state. Using differences between people to kill them. Bad people. Not all of them. Just 99%.

IS BE's picture

I tried that on the First Wife.

She got very angry, said "Dont you know what that does to my Depression?"

She's got an IQof 130+.

Prefers to Iie on bed being dominated by her cat as she watches Crap on TV. We have grandchildren.

To females it's all about FEELINGS. I'm left to my own devices to come up with a solution.  

So we are divorced.

roccman's picture

Thanks, I guess, for that link. Read reviews at Amazon. The scale of torture and misery seems unprecedented. I had no idea. I read bury my heart and that book changed my life. Humans either spend their lives as cowards in the "civilized" world of unreality OR doing the cowardly bidding of those who worship a darkness that extinguishes all light. Humans rarely boldly embrace compassion or gratitude.

And I believe these earthly tendencies are not the half of it. For many literary masters speak of something that lurks (and grows) within the expanse of the individual mind. Something alien, that I happen to know has claws.

swamp's picture

Youu condescending ass. We are better informed than you.

Clock Crasher's picture

Oh Jesus titty fuckin CHRIST people! Just give me my $500 silver so I can retire with hookers and blow!

 

Exactly.  Thank you!  Been dollar cost averaging since high 40's WTF! 

A 5 year bear market?  Well shit why not make it 6 while we are at it. 

Jimmy Jimmereeno's picture

"Why not make it $6 while we are at it?" FIFY

No reason to think you won't see that number.

JohnG's picture

I'm going to need a bigger boat.

Consuelo's picture

 

 

Hegemonic 'Expansions' take time.

 

Clear headed decisions by other sane world leaders to stop said expansion can come in an instant.

adanata's picture

 

Agree.... moreover, these scum live in their own Ivory Tower. The 'policy' monsters are not the ones on the ground.

If we see this crap actually escalate, I believe we can honestly and reasonably expect a military coup in the United States.

CJgipper's picture

I'd like to see liberals conscribed into service for these wars at gunpoint.

Cloud9.5's picture

If you want to know what you are dealing with, look at the career of Robert Strange McNamara.  He was part of a group we used to call the Wiz Kids.  He convinced less capable politicians and bureaucrats that he was the brightest candle in the cupboard.  He is the architect of the Vietnam War.  He is the father of Agent Orange and Operation Phoenix. He fractured my generation.  He killed a good many of my friends.  He burned alive thousands of women and children simply because they had the misfortune of living at the wrong address.  He did all of this because he had decided that if Vietnam went communist, America would fall.

Well guess what; we lost the war and we are still here.   As adept as he was at convincing his lessors that he had it all figured out, he never saw the future.  He never imagined that the Soviet Union would collapse under its own weight.  He destroyed the lives of millions people for nothing.  Robert Strange McNamara got to walk because his grand schemes did not collapse the system.  Nuclear war will collapse the system.

You neocon masterminds and think tank sharpies think you can manage this.  Hitler and his boys thought they could manage WW II.  Once this goes down, few of you may be able to plan your own exit like Hitler and Goebbels did.   The rest of you are going to have the Mussolini experience.

 

 

Cloud9.5's picture

If you want to know what you are dealing with, look at the career of Robert Strange McNamara.  He was part of a group we used to call the Wiz Kids.  He convinced less capable politicians and bureaucrats that he was the brightest candle in the cupboard.  He is the architect of the Vietnam War.  He is the father of Agent Orange and Operation Phoenix. He fractured my generation.  He killed a good many of my friends.  He burned alive thousands of women and children simply because they had the misfortune of living at the wrong address.  He did all of this because he had decided that if Vietnam went communist, America would fall.

Well guess what; we lost the war and we are still here.   As adept as he was at convincing his lessors that he had it all figured out, he never saw the future.  He never imagined that the Soviet Union would collapse under its own weight.  He destroyed the lives of millions people for nothing.  Robert Strange McNamara got to walk because his grand schemes did not collapse the system.  Nuclear war will collapse the system.

You neocon masterminds and think tank sharpies think you can manage this.  Hitler and his boys thought they could manage WW II.  Once this goes down, few of you may be able to plan your own exit like Hitler and Goebbels did.   The rest of you are going to have the Mussolini experience.

 

 

Escrava Isaura's picture

Worried about Hegemonic 'Expansions' wars?

Try this: Eugenics.

Let me tell you something: When the oil is gone and there’s no more food on the shelves wars can’t come soon enough.

Eugenics will come, you like it or not.

 

Countrybunkererd's picture

The Whore of Babylon...

GUS100CORRINA's picture

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH APPEARS TO BE CALLING THE SHOTS.

1980XLS's picture

Need new, 3X leveraged MIC ETF.

Bullish

hxc's picture

Ticker symbol ideas

MIC (PNAC supporters etf; think Boeing)

UZIO (2x neocon insanity etf)

CLNT (muffdiving etf)

FUKD (ww3 etf)

Working on more

Clock Crasher's picture

ININ (Invincible Ignorance Triple Long)

RozKo's picture

"now is the time for monsters", ut-oh, better get to the safe space quick, looks like the commie queen is gonna unleash a macro-agression...

medium giraffe's picture

Woodies 4 War.

When will they learn?  Repeat the cycle and try again. It's a long ass road, we'll all be chilling with sangrias and watching you fuck up again and again.

fucking remedials - back to remedial class!

LetThemEatRand's picture

The devil's greatest trick was convincing the world that she doesn't wear a pantsuit, or something like that.

Pumpkin's picture

Someone's going to cut the head off the beast.  The world is tired of this shit.

CJgipper's picture

We can only hope they go for the head.  The body doesn't want to do this.

LithiumWarsWAKEUP's picture

Make sure 'they' can do it in one drop, please with all in Attendance. And make sure the SupremeBeings I mean Court are there, too.

SuperCycleBear's picture

We get the leaders we deserve...

 

Enjoy the barbeque! 

CJgipper's picture

Wear sunglasses.  I hear it's going to be REALLY bright.