Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
On February 22nd, NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d presented reporter Richard Engel in\u00a0a terrific four-minute documentary on Barack Obama\u2019s and Hillary Clinton\u2019s catastrophic policy-results in Libya<\/span><\/a>. (You can watch it by clicking on that link.) The segment concluded that Obama and his Administration (including Hillary Clinton) didn\u2019t know where they were going in this operation. That was a \u2018kindly\u2019 interpretation, but Obama isn\u2019t really so stupid. He\u2019s a leader, with a clear vision of what he wants, and he subordinates everything to it. Whereas Obama did indeed destroy Libya and (like G.W. Bush\u2019s venture in Iraq) enormously boost Islamic extremism and terrorism (and the main expert that Engel interviewed in that segment has written extensively on this regarding specifically the Libyan case,\u00a0here<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/span><\/a>), Obama knew what his goal was, and he achieved it there, even though it wasn\u2019t to boost Islamic extremism, nor was it to destroy Libya; he actually had his eye on a different ball altogether. Something is an even bigger concern to him than fighting terrorism, or than the welfare of people in Libya or any other foreign country; and this is consistently what guides his decisions in international affairs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Muammar Gaddafi, Libya\u2019s leader, was famously \u201canti-Western,\u201d and he never joined the U.S-Saudi alliance, the so-called \u201cWestern alliance\u201d<\/span><\/a> (which includes Europe, but only as a junior partner, because Europe is dependent upon the U.S. and upon America\u2019s NATO alliance \u2013 the military club of anti-Russian nations). (And, yes, the U.S. Government is allied with the princes who finance<\/span><\/a> Al Qaeda, ISIS and other Islamic terrorism; and the standard \u2018history\u2019 of 9\/11 is \u2013 and is intended to be \u2013 largely false<\/span><\/a>.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The great John Pilger has provided<\/span><\/a> the best summary description of the horrific and intentional catastrophe that Obama and Clinton perpetrated upon the Libyan people. For example: \u201cIn 2011, Nato launched 9,700 \u2018strike sorties\u2019 against Libya, of which more than a third were aimed at civilian targets. Uranium warheads were used<\/span><\/a>; the cities of Misurata and Sirte were carpet-bombed. The Red Cross identified mass graves, and Unicef reported that \u2018most [of the children killed] were under the age of ten\u2019.\u201d These were international war-crimes, which will never be prosecuted. Hillary Clinton expressed merry pride regarding what she and Obama did in killing Gaddafi, no matter how many people\u2019s lives were destroyed in the process. There is no \u2018kindly\u2019 interpretation of that.<\/span><\/p>\n Obama was, in fact, knocking out a\u00a0Russian ally<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by means of this Libyan operation. He succeeded at his objective there. He knew where he was going, and he achieved that goal.<\/span><\/p>\n I have\u00a0elsewhere<\/span><\/a>\u00a0documented the case that Obama\u2019s operation in Syria is directed against Russia \u2013 that the goal there is anti-Russian regime-change for Syria, like the Libyan operation was anti-Russian regime-change for Libya, and like the Ukrainian operation (the\u00a0coup<\/span><\/a>\u00a0there in February 2014) was anti-Russian regime-change for Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n All of this follows on George W. Bush\u2019s success at anti-Russian regime-change in Iraq in 2003. He killed Saddam Hussein there, who had been another Russian ally.<\/span><\/p>\n Similarly, Bill Clinton succeeded at anti-Russian regime-change in Yugoslavia, via the Bosnian War, by bombing Serbs there, who had always been the core of Yugoslavia\u2019s pro-Russian tilt. Croatia and Slovenia are now full NATO members.<\/span><\/p>\n All of these operations pretended to be \u201chumanitarian,\u201d and Barack Obama is so skilled at the rhetoric of humanitarianism and peacemaking, that he actually won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for that rhetoric; it\u2019s definitely world-class deception. Bill Clinton too was highly skilled at that (though perhaps not to the extent Obama is). George W. Bush wasn\u2019t, at all; he was so dumb that he needed to contract-out to his V.P. the actual running of this country.<\/span><\/p>\n Each of these three Presidents, and also certainly George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan, weren\u2019t merely anti-communists; they were and are anti-Russians: they are deeply committed to the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s central foreign-policy objective, of subordinating Russia\u2019s aristocracy to America\u2019s, in order for America\u2019s aristocracy to achieve unchallengeable dominance over the whole world.<\/span><\/p>\n This theme was developed and documented in detail in my lengthiest online article\u00a0“Obama\u2019s War Policies\u00a0Show a Pattern.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Virtually all of\u00a0my recent articles<\/span><\/a>\u00a0have dealt with, and documented, that very same pattern, by explaining current international relations, current events, on the basis of this consistent pattern in Obama\u2019s actual decisions, not relying upon his mere words. What is remarkable in Obama\u2019s Presidency, in all of its facets, including domestic policy (e.g.,\u00a0this<\/span><\/a>), is his successful operation of the United States Government for the benefit of this nation\u2019s aristocracy.<\/span><\/p>\n The United States is now ruled by its aristocracy in both political Parties, not just one. Previously, only the Republican Party was totally in the aristocracy\u2019s grip; but, ever since 1980, both Parties are. <\/span><\/p>\n The United States is no longer a democracy. Throw out all those civics textbooks<\/span><\/a>; their connection to reality now (especially at the national level) is virtually nil; and the pressures are in the direction of their becoming more archaic and deceptive<\/span><\/a>, rather than becoming less so. The aristocracy<\/span><\/a> have won<\/span><\/a>. Obama is merely the latest example of that; and this fact shows at least as much in his foreign as in his domestic policies. <\/span><\/p>\n But it\u2019s not just him; it\u2019s throughout the national government, including the courts and congress. For example: how else does one explain \u201cU.S. Congress Now Virtually 100% All-In on Ukraine\u2019s War Against Russia; Americans Are at Least 67% Opposed\u201d<\/span><\/a>? When there is a policy that most of America\u2019s aristocrats strongly want and are heavily investing in, and that virtually none of them is strongly opposed to, then what the public wants regarding that particular matter is next to irrelevant in determining the Government\u2019s policy. If what the public then sees on Election-Day turns out to be a choice between Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, is that democracy, or is it actually something else? But is that the way the press would report it?<\/span><\/p>\n If the public are deceived, then democracy is impossible.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n ———-<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse On February 22nd, NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d presented reporter Richard Engel in\u00a0a terrific four-minute documentary on Barack Obama\u2019s and Hillary Clinton\u2019s catastrophic policy-results in Libya. (You can watch it by clicking on that link.) 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