I don’t know if
Americans get that many of us outside of the USA view the United States
government as the greatest threat to world peace today. Americans are typically
friendly folk. Individually, I like Americans. Yeah, they are sometimes unaware
of the wider world, or even their own at times, but they are typically friendly
and helpful. Well, there are some places in the northeast on account of which
one could be forgiven for thinking I must have fallen onto my head before I
made that statement. But I find that even in those places, they are normally
friendly when I act as though I expect them to be.
My beef is with the war
mentality of successive administrations. Trump has not broken the trend.
Several weeks ago, he approved a raid in Yemen, in which more than a dozen
civilians were killed, including the 8 year old daughter of an American citizen
that had been deliberately killed by an American drone. Execution without
trial.
Look, I get that
Hillary probably would have led the country into World War III instead of just
leaning that way. I mean, she supported almost every war fought by the USA in
the past 25 years. A full quarter century of war mongering. Good practice at being president. Her
attitude was typified by her comments regarding Gaddafi after he was tortured
and executed: “We came; we saw; he died.”
Trump has issued his
travel ban. He doesn’t want people coming from Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran,
Yemen or Somalia. Other countries have terrorists. Interesting that in 2007
General Wesley Clark stated he had seen a memo attesting to war plans against
these same seven countries. The travel ban may be part of an overall war plan.
Maybe we’ll see the USA provoking these countries soon to create conditions to “justify”
going to war.
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