I Told You So.
He's just as smart as John Kennedy.
"I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I've reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war.
We'll just slip the word to them that, "for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about communism.
We can't restrain him when he's angry—and he has his hand on the nuclear button" and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
These people are stupid beyond words....
How to win and save face by making it look as though you totally screwed up.
If there is to be the "inevitable" military action over Syria that the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Complex so adamantly insists there must be: let the responsibility for that decision lie with those people already perceived by the American people to be irresponsible, untrustworthy, partisan, ambitious, and thirsty for the limelight.
Am I crazy, or is this not a job for the U. S. House of Representatives?
Obama's approval rating stands at 42%
Congress' stands at 18%.
There is a crucial set of mid-terms in 2014.
This is a no-brainier.
Call their bluff.
It already gave David Cameron the opportunity to back away from a badly botched and impossible to sell provocation - the only reason he recalled Parliament and called that vote was to lose it, rather than back down and appear to show weakness.
Obama still listens to Brezynski.
And I hate Brezynski.
But even though he is evil, he's usually right and (unlike Kissinger) he always tells the truth.
"If you think this decision to attack Syria has already been made - guess again, it hasn't been."
"I say to people: "If you spent the Summer attacking Obama - you are a FOOL.... You *should have been attacking the Warmongers...!" "
"If Obama goes down, so does Dempsey"
"There are not two sides, there are many sides - and no sides that represents US interests"
"Watch out for The Snake - Susan Rice; she is open to.... well..... anything evil.."
"Watch out for Samantha Power at the United Nations....".
"Let's shut that door now as tight as we can,
There will not be American boots on the ground with respect to the civil war.
If [Assad is] foolish enough to respond to the world's enforcement against his criminal activity, if he does, he will invite something far worse and I believe something absolutely unsustainable for him,
Now, that doesn't mean the United States of America is going to war."
It took 3 months to get the UN Inspectors in - but here's my 2013 Bilderberg prediction from the Anglo-French NWO Atlanticists this year...
If there is to be the "inevitable" military action over Syria that the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Complex so adamantly insists there must be: let the responsibility for that decision lie with those people already perceived by the American people to be irresponsible, untrustworthy, partisan, ambitious, and thirsty for the limelight.
Am I crazy, or is this not a job for the U. S. House of Representatives?
Obama's approval rating stands at 42%
Congress' stands at 18%.
This is a no-brainier.
Call their bluff.
It already gave David Cameron the opportunity to back away from a badly botched and impossible to sell provocation - the only reason he recalled Parliament and called that vote was to lose it, rather than back down and appear to show weakness.
What he is asking to vote for, he is not going to get.
Plus, the longer you delay, the more room the UN Inspection team have to complete their findings in the ground.
"The Republicans would probably support Ground Troops - because it could destroy me"
President Bill Clinton, April 1999
Federal law prohibits the military from using propaganda and psychological tactics on U.S. citizens, but that is exactly what may have happened in Afghanistan, according to reporter Michael Hastings, who joins us to speak about his recent exposé for Rolling Stone magazine, "Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators."
In the article, Hastings writes that Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the commander of NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan, illegally employed psychological operations to manipulate visiting U.S. senators into providing more troops and funding for the war effort.
“It just shows how far off the rails that entire operation has gone,” Hasting says. “The most important battlefield actually isn’t in Afghanistan, it’s in Washington.”
JUAN GONZALEZ: Federal law prohibits the military from using propaganda and psychological tactics on U.S. citizens, but that is exactly what may have happened in Afghanistan, according to reporter Michael Hastings. His most recent exposé for Rolling Stone magazine is called "Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-ops on U.S. Senators." In the article, Hastings writes that Lieutenant General William Caldwell, the commander of NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan, illegally employed psychological operations to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war effort.
According to the article, a military cell devoted to what is known as "information operations" was repeatedly pressured to target visiting senators and other VIPs who met with Caldwell. Hastings says the campaign targeted a variety of policymakers, including Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Jack Reed, Al Franken and Carl Levin.
AMY GOODMAN: Although the military has denied Hastings’s allegations, the U.S. command in Afghanistan issued a statement saying General David Petraeus is "preparing to order an investigation to determine the facts and circumstances surrounding the issue." Last month, Hastings won the George Polk Award for his article in Rolling Stone last year that led to the dismissal of former NATO commander U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal.
Michael Hastings is joining us now from Washington, D.C.
Michael, thank you so much for taking the time from writing your book to do this. Just lay out what you found.
MICHAEL HASTINGS: No problem. Thanks for having me.
Well, essentially, what we have here is that an information operations cell, which is a cell that, by definition, is trained to conduct psychological operations and military deception, was asked by Lieutenant General Caldwell and his staff to use their skills on visiting U.S. senators and other VIPs. Now, the cell, this IO cell, was led by a gentleman named Lieutenant Colonel Michael Holmes. Lieutenant Colonel Holmes raised objections to being asked to do this. He said, "Hey, I’m an IO cell. Information operations is only supposed to be used for foreign audiences. It’s a really bad idea to be using my team, because we specialize in psychological operations and whatnot, to be doing this." But the pressure kept on mounting on him to, you know, focus all his efforts not on the Afghans, but on Americans visiting. Finally, he received a written order to this effect: you know, focus all your efforts on essentially manipulating visiting senators.
He then took that order and went to a lawyer, a JAG lawyer. The lawyer said, "Yes, this is not right. This is illegal." Another lawyer confirmed that opinion. And then Caldwell’s people refined the order to say, "Oh, well, you’re only looking at public records," but then they launched a retaliatory investigation into the whistleblower, Colonel Michael Holmes. And after, he sort of, over a period of months, tried to get his complaints redressed and said, "Hey, I was attacked because I’m a whistleblower. I was investigated because I’m a whistleblower." That also had no impact, and so eventually he decided to go public with his story.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain what psy-ops are.
MICHAEL HASTINGS: Sure. Psychological operations and information operations are essentially just ways to influence the population. Now, the key is, is that for IO and psy-ops you’re only supposed to do those on foreign populations, on the enemy. Now, there’s another branch, public affairs, which is — which you’re allowed to then use your information on the American population. The key difference is, is that in information operations and in psy-ops you’re allowed to lie, you’re allowed to mislead, where in public affairs, in theory, at least, you’re not supposed to do that. And by using information operations with — who know how to conduct psychological operations, in the process that would traditionally be held for public affairs, you’re corrupting the entire process. And, you know, one of the interesting things has been to see the reaction from the military.
Israel WARNS Syrian Civil War Is About Attacking Israel from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Israel regularly drops White Phosphorus ON CHILDREN.
I don't know how they have the nerve...
Syria: Rachel Maddow is Actually Still THINKING, as Opposed to REACTING - First Class Journalism from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Although unlikely to win any further faint praise from Russia Today's lead attack-dog Abbey Martin for producing another one of her "epic rants", this measured and excellent analysis by our Saphic Siren may have done enough to herself sufficient goodwill with Putin's people to place her firmly back out of the warning zone and on her way to being in Russia's good graces.
They might be prepared to cut her some slack on the Tsarnaev trial, provided she not get suckered into the growing movement to organise a mass global movement to boycott the Russian Olympics by holding them to ransom over LGBT rights, an act of conscious hostility and conscious diplomatic insult in public in forums like the UN by the likes of Ambassador Elizabeth Power.
As President Carter remarked tactfully, discreetly and shrewdly when questionned regarding issues such as Tibet and the like in the run-up to the Beijing Games in 2008, "I think we here in America should really think very carefully, and temper our rhettoric for the time being over the next few years as regards Human Rights abuses on the part of the Chinese, or indeed of anyone else...."
The United Nations Security Council, or indeed the General Assembly, is indeed NO PLACE for angry, ginger human rights advocates or indeed anyone else to be angrily belittling the Russians over perceived or actual internal repression on the grounds of gender oriejntation - most of the members of General Assembly don't even have women's suffage yet, and in most of them again, homosexuality is still on the books as serious criminal offence, an indictable felony either at or just below that of rape, indecent assault or acts of bestiality.
Aggressively demanding respect and acknowledgement of equal status as a peer from Putin's Russia from a position of weakness or foolish youthful nativity will inevitably lead you in the direction of just one place, and that's burried in a forrest outside Smolensk, while Putin man-hugs your hand-picked successor to share in his grief over your tragic loss.
Just ask a Pole.
