{"id":276983,"date":"2016-11-02T18:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T17:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=276983"},"modified":"2016-11-02T19:29:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:29:21","slug":"americas-psychopathic-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/americas-psychopathic-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Psychopathic Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not only the right-wing think tanks (such as the Hudson Institute and the Rand Corporation) that urge America to invade countries that pose no threat against the U.S., but also liberal think tanks (such as the Open Society Foundation and the Brookings Institution) that urge firebombing of cities and even ethnic cleansing in order to defeat foreign leaders whom the American aristocracy want to overthrow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though there is space here to mention just a few examples of these \u201cliberal\u201d psychopaths, these will be representative ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2002,\u00a0Kenneth Pollack<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of the Brookings Institution came forth with his book, The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq<\/i>.\u00a0As the Council on Foreign Relations promoted it:<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This highly influential book, written as the Bush administration turned\u00a0its sights on Saddam Hussein’s regime, takes the reader back to the\u00a0pre-war\u00a0days of uncertainty about Saddam’s weapons and his ties to major\u00a0terrorist organizations, outlining a powerful case for a U.S. invasion\u00a0of Iraq.\u00a0Senior Fellow Kenneth Pollack argues that to prevent Saddam\u00a0from acquiring nuclear weapons, the United States has little choice<\/i> [but] to\u00a0topple the\u00a0regime, eradicate its weapons of mass destruction, and\u00a0rebuild the country as a prosperous and stable society.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Upon the book\u2019s publication, the CFR issued\u00a0a press release about it,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0saying:<\/span><\/p>\n

Building on his acclaimed March 2002\u00a0Foreign Affairs\u00a0article,\u00a0\u201cNext Stop Baghdad?,\u201d Pollack lays out five options available to the\u00a0United States\u2014bolstering containment, depending on a formal deterrence\u00a0policy, mounting a covert action campaign, relying on airpower and the\u00a0Iraqi opposition,\u00a0and launching a full-scale invasion\u2014and argues that\u00a0none of the first four are realistic anymore.\u00a0Therefore only a\u00a0full-scale invasion involving\u00a0several hundred thousand American soldiers\u00a0can deal with the growing threat.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Pollack subsequently blamed the Bush Administration for having misled him; and, by May of 2003 (after the March 19th invasion), he\u00a0was saying that this book of his, which argued for the urgency of invading Iraq in order to block Saddam Hussein\u2019s supposed nuclear-bomb program, was concerned instead only about “a much more distant threat.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0And the real threat that I felt from Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program was the potential for Iraq to\u00a0eventually develop nuclear weapons.\u201d When the interviewer asked how shaky was the evidence on the basis of which Pollack had urged an immediate invasion, Pollack answered, “you’re now getting beyond my area of expertise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Was he fired, for his dangerous and unfounded \u2018expert\u2019 presentation of his suspicions as if they were instead facts<\/i>? No: he\u2019s still with Brookings, and still being treated by the Establishment and its \u2018news\u2019 media as if he were a respectable person and a foreign-policy \u2018expert\u2019, no mere lethal propagandist for America\u2019s voracious aristocracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

In March 2012, Pollack co-authored along with two other similar Brookings \u2018experts,\u2019\u00a0a 16-page \u201cMiddle East Memo,\u201d titled \u201cSaving Syria: Assessing Options for Regime Change.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Again, there were \u201cfive options available to the United States\u201d; and, yet again, the final one was invasion, about which he had this to say, this time around:<\/span><\/p>\n

There are at least four pieces of ‘good news’ when it\u00a0comes to contemplating an American-led invasion of\u00a0Syria. First, as in Iraq, the initial\u00a0invasion is likely to\u00a0be easy. In fact, it would probably be even easier than\u00a0it was in Iraq because the Syrian military is smaller,\u00a0weaker, and less-experienced than was the Iraqi\u00a0military, and it is already tied down fighting an internal\u00a0opposition. Second, the United States would\u00a0probably do a\u00a0better job of handling the essential\u00a0post-war reconstruction because it has learned from\u00a0the many mistakes it made in Iraq. What\u2019s more, after\u00a0Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States has a large\u00a0cadre of personnel with the skills needed to handle\u00a0the challenges of reconstruction.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

How heartwarming! Like knife-in-your-heart warming, for anyone stupid enough to think that outfits such as Brookings are anything better than the lowest level of fake gold-leafed scum.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there was the time when the Brookings Institution\u2019s team of \u2018experts\u2019 said that U.S. President Obama needed to follow up his successful\u00a0coup in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 by \u00a0intensifying the ethnic-cleansing program against Ukraine\u2019s former Donbass region, which was refusing to submit to the U.S.-installed regime.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

And this gets us now to George Soros\u2019s Open Society Foundation, and its associated \u2018philanthropies,\u2019 such as the International Renaissance Foundation (or \u201cFund\u201d), which, along with the U.S. Government and the Netherlands Government, had financed the creation of the leading TV station for the \u2018Maidan\u2019 demonstrations that provided cover for the CIA\u2019s\u00a0coup.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0It was called Hromadske TV, and\u00a0here was one of its \u2018experts\u2019 talking about what needed to be done to the people in the rebelling Donbass region:<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Donbass, in general, is not simply a region in a very depressed condition, it has got a whole number of problems, the biggest of which\u00a0is that it is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. Trust me I know perfectly well what I am saying.\u00a0If we take, for example, just the Donetsk oblast, there are approximately 4 million inhabitants, at least 1.5 million of which are\u00a0superfluous. That’s what I mean: we don’t need to <\/i>[try to] ‘understand’ Donbass, we need to understand Ukrainian national interests.\u00a0Donbass must be exploited as a resource, which it is.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In other words:\u00a0Kill the residents there,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0keep the land and its \u201cresources.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That example is not entirely typical, but the chief private financier behind it was urging the U.S. and EU to pump an additional $20-50 billion into completing that job of ethnic-cleansing<\/span><\/a>, and this was none other than George Soros himself. And, after all, he too is considered to be \u2018respectable.\u2019 In fact, he\u2019s one of the leading financial backers of America\u2019s Democratic Party.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whereas in domestic affairs, America\u2019s aristocracy is far from united, that aristocracy displays a stunning unanimity in regards to foreign affairs: they want to conquer the world. As U.S. President Barack Obama constantly says, \u201cThe United States is and remains the one indispensable nation.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>All others are \u2018dispensable.\u2019 His Republican opponents in 2008 and 2012, John McCain and Mitt Romney, couldn\u2019t have said it any better. In international affairs, they all serve the same masters. And the American public tolerate that agenda, conquest, because the \u2018experts\u2019 and the \u2018news\u2019 media serve those same masters: the aristocracy. Regarding the CIA, \u2018Defense\u2019 Department, State Department, etc., it\u2019s the \u2018respectable\u2019 position to advocate. After all: other countries are \u2018dispensable.\u2019 So: they might as well be consumed, not simply wasted. Isn\u2019t that what they\u2019re there for? To serve \u201cthe one indispensable nation\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 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>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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