{"id":165477,"date":"2015-07-13T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=165477"},"modified":"2015-07-13T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:36:41","slug":"donald-trump-false-flag-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/donald-trump-false-flag-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: A False Flag Candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>That we have to take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberationnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/donaldtrump61815.jpg\">Donald Trump<\/a> seriously confirms my longstanding<br \/>\nprognosis that we\u2019ve entered another dimension in which up is down, black is<br \/>\nwhite, and reason is dethroned: in short, we\u2019re living in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/j021302.html\">BizarroWorld<\/a>, and<br \/>\nthe landscape is not very inviting. Yet explore it I must, since the reality<br \/>\nTV star and professional self-promoter is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/relishing-polls-trump-rails-against-u-presidential-race-022702683--finance.html\">rising in the polls<\/a>, and garnering<br \/>\nan inordinate amount of media attention \u2014 and whether the latter is responsible<br \/>\nfor the former is something I\u2019ll get into later, but for now let us focus on<br \/>\nwhat practically no one else is paying much attention to, the Trumpian foreign<br \/>\npolicy.<\/p>\n<p>Right off the bat, we run into trouble, however, since the signature sound-bites<br \/>\nthat characterize the Trump style don\u2019t really qualify as anything close to<br \/>\na \u201cpolicy.\u201d Yet his various effusions on this topic do indeed translate into<br \/>\na mindset, which one might call <i>blowhard-ism<\/i>. And as much as it resembles<br \/>\nthe semi-coherent rantings of a drunk loudly pontificating in the dark recesses<br \/>\nof some hotel bar at a Rotarians convention, it does reflect some \u201cserious\u201d<br \/>\ntrends to be found in the high-toned precincts of the foreign policy Establishment,<br \/>\nnot to mention among Trump\u2019s fellow presidential aspirants in the GOP clown<br \/>\nshow.<\/p>\n<p>On Iraq, The Donald makes much of his alleged opposition to the Iraq war \u2014<br \/>\na position no one has documented to my satisfaction \u2014 but now that we\u2019re back<br \/>\nthere, what\u2019s Trump\u2019s plan? &#8220;We shouldn\u2019t have been there,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/donald-trump-iraq-war\">he opines<\/a>,<br \/>\nand yet \u201conce we were there, we probably should have stayed.\u201d While this may<br \/>\nsound bafflingly counterintuitive, not to mention flat out contradictory, you<br \/>\nhave to remember two things: 1) In Bizarro World, contradictions <i>do<\/i> exist,<br \/>\nA is B, and the sensible is the impossible, and 2) Similar things were said<br \/>\nabout the Vietnam war by politicians less obviously nutso than The Donald. As<br \/>\nMurray Rothbard put it in a 1968 newspaper column he wrote for the Freedom<br \/>\nNewspapers chain:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2015\/07\/12\/donald-trump-a-false-flag-candidate\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That we have to take Donald Trump seriously confirms my longstanding prognosis that we\u2019ve entered another dimension in which up is down, black is white, and reason is dethroned: in short, we\u2019re living in BizarroWorld, and the landscape is not very inviting. Yet explore it I must, since the reality TV star and professional self-promoter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-165477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}