The original Bush foreign policy

I love youtube.  When I see clips like this from a debate I watched between Al Gore and George W. Bush, I realize at least one reason why I voted for Bush in 2000.  That was his foreign policy platform which is a traditional Republican foreign policy of no nation building or policing of the world.  This is the foreign policy of Ron Paul. 

Of course many will say the tired “9/11 changed everything.”  Let me break that down.  9/11 shouldn’t have changed the Bush foreign policy platform, because it wasn’t his non-interventionist platform that lead to 9/11.  It was all the previous interventions, plus stationing troops in the Saudi Arabia, plus our enmeshed support for Israel.  These were the reasons given by Osama at least.  Bush should have stayed the course with his original foreign policy platform. 

Gary Hart warns Iran of false flag

 

This is a huge story.  Gary even mentions the Gulf of Tonkin and the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine.  His warning is short and to the point, Iran should shut up and roll over to play possum until Bush gets out of office.  Otherwise, Iran risks being attacked for any loosely knit reason. 

Listen to what this Council on Foreign Relations guy was saying the day after the 9/11.  How does he know all these things the day after 9/11?  While the rest of the world is in shock, he has prepared a speech of the coming gloom and doom upon American soil.  As is the case with many of these CFR types, they do tend to be little prophets.  What they say does tend to happen sooner or later.  While what he said has not happened, yet, it has been echoed by many other politicians in the years since 9/11. 

 It is also interesting to note that some of what Gary said has come true.  Bush did use 9/11 to try to carry out a new world order as defined by all those in his administration and as written about in Project for a New American Century (PNAC)documents.  Their own documents a littered with references to a Pax Americana, securing and expanding American interests and culture around the globe. 

Bottom line, listen to Gary.  Not the Iranians, but the American public needs to listen to him.  We need to realize that war is a racket.  There are too many pointers to the fact that we are the aggressors across the globe and particularly in oil rich countries.  It is all there if you want to find it for yourself, but it will involve putting down the remote and reading. 

Neocon fear factor on FOX

This just goes to show how the neoconservative philosophy is not sustainable without fear.  Fear causes people to cower back into their fox holes (pun intended) and be on guard against the enemy, real or imagined.  It is also a time when people are most likely to say to daddy government, coddle me next to your military-industrial complex, sway me back to sleep with a service squadron.  Oh, what’s that?  2.3 Trillion missing from the DoD as we cowered in fear from 9/11.  How these guys long for those good old days when ratings and unity were high and accountability was low.  As I noted in an earlier post and many seem to be recognizing now, but “absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event”, this administration’s foreign policy is a train wreck.  Perhaps another “event” will give an anabolic boost the military-industrial-congressional complex needs.