U.S. Foreign Policy ‘Elites’ Eagerly Await Expansion Of Overseas Wars Under Hillary Clinton

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Your average American Hillary Clinton supporter will smugly head to the polls on November 8th, entirely self-assured of his or her vital role in the defeat of fascism in these United States. It won’t take long for such childish delusions to be vanquished by the horror of subsequent reckless and unnecessary imperial conflagrations that will be inevitably unleashed by their savior throughout the world.

The extreme dangers faced by the planet as a result of neocon warmonger Hillary Clinton becoming President have been apparent for a very long time. Oliver Stone and many others have vocally warned about it, and I’ve covered the topic on many occasions; including in the following posts:

“We’re Going to War” – Oliver Stone Opines on the Dangerous Extremism of Neocon Hillary Clinton

More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3

More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3 – Part 2

Lifelong Democrat and Former RFK Speechwriter Comes Out For Trump

Now, courtesy of a newly published article at The Washington Post, we are once again forced to confront this very uncomfortable reality. Here are a few of the more disturbing excerpts from today’s piece:

There is one corner of Washington where Donald Trump’s scorched-earth presidential campaign is treated as a mere distraction and where bipartisanship reigns. In the rarefied world of the Washington foreign policy establishment, President Obama’s departure from the White House — and the possible return of a more conventional and hawkish Hillary Clinton — is being met with quiet relief.

 

The Republicans and Democrats who make up the foreign policy elite are laying the groundwork for a more assertive American foreign policy via a flurry of reports shaped by officials who are likely to play senior roles in a potential Clinton White House.

 

It is not unusual for Washington’s establishment to launch major studies in the final months of an administration to correct the perceived mistakes of a president or influence his successor. But the bipartisan nature of the recent recommendations, coming at a time when the country has never been more polarized, reflect a remarkable consensus among the foreign policy elite.

 

This consensus is driven by broad-based backlash against a president who has repeatedly stressed the dangers of overreach and the limits of American power, especially in the Middle East. “There’s a widespread perception that not being active enough or recognizing the limits of American power has costs,” said Philip Gordon, a senior foreign policy adviser to Obama until 2015. “So the normal swing is to be more interventionist.”

 

Taken together, the studies and reports call for more-aggressive American action to constrain Iran, rein in the chaos in the Middle East and check Russia in Europe.

 

The studies, which reflect Clinton’s stated views and the direction she is likely to take if she is elected, break most forcefully with Obama on Syria. Virtually all these efforts, including a report that will be released Wednesday by the liberal Center for American Progress, call for stepped up military action to deter President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Russian forces in Syria.

This is what passes off as “liberal” these days.

The proposed military measures include calls for safe zones to protect moderate rebels from Syrian and Russian forces. Most of the studies propose limited American airstrikes with cruise missiles to punish Assad if he continues to attack civilians with barrel bombs, as is currently happening in besieged Aleppo. So far, Obama has staunchly resisted any military action against the Assad regime.

 

Even pinprick cruise missile strikes designed to hobble the Syrian air force or punish Assad would risk a direct confrontation with Russian forces, which are scattered throughout the key Syrian military bases that would be targeted.

 

“You can’t pretend you can go to war against Assad and not go to war against the Russians,” said a senior administration official who is involved in Middle East policy and was granted anonymity to discuss internal White House deliberations.

 

Inside the White House, senior administration officials regularly dismissed calls for military force from the foreign policy establishment as the product of “too much college, not enough knowledge,” writes Derek Chollet, a former top Obama administration official, in his new book “The Long Game.”

 

Other White House officials derisively referred to Washington’s foreign policy experts as “the Blob.”

As much as I’ve criticized Obama for his many costly foreign adventures, he is an absolute peacenik compared to Clinton. Let’s never forget that the biggest foreign policy disaster of his Presidency, the destruction of Libya, was the brainchild of his then Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“Everyone has kind of given up on the Middle East. We have been at it for 15 years, and a lot of Americans think it is hopeless,” Hadley said. “We think it is not.”

What would we do without people like Hadley around to screw things up?

“The dynamic is totally different from what I saw a decade ago” when Democratic and Republican elites were feuding over the invasion of Iraq, said Brian Katulis, a senior Middle East analyst at the Center for American Progress. Today, the focus among the foreign policy elite is on rebuilding a more muscular and more “centrist internationalism,” he said.

This is an absolute disaster waiting to happen. As I tweeted earlier today:

Brace yourselves everyone, the next four years are going to be very, very ugly.

 

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iconoclast421
iconoclast421

The one thing that irritates me most about Trump’s debate performance is the fact that he didnt talk to the people about how these neocon whores have all aligned themselves with Hillary. He should have named every single one of those PNAC scum.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

Greetings,

In talking to Hillary supporters, which, I should mention, is not difficult because I’m in S. California, I constantly circle back to the topic of WAR. What I’ve learned from talking to these people is that they do not care about war so long as they think they are going to get moar free stuff.

People that are that selfish – that pathetic can not be reasoned with. I no longer consider them citizens but 5th Columnist Parasites. They will gladly risk a nuclear holocaust so long as they believe it will support their Beta-Marxist-Fag Parade. The only thing left to hope for is that a few million of them get a taste of war themselves. The surveillance state they love so much isn’t going to have any problems rounding them up for “service” and perhaps they will learn that support for War Criminals, regardless of what they promise, has consequences.

Anonymous
Anonymous

You might point out to them that free stuff is sorta worthless when you’re dead because of WWIII going nuclear and killing them and everyone around them.

IndenturedServant

“U.S. Foreign Policy ‘Elites’ Eagerly Await Expansion Of Overseas Wars Under Hillary Clinton”

You’re damned right they do. We didn’t build multi-billion dollar bases throughout the middle east just to walk away from them. The elitist scum fully intends to conquer and occupy the middle east (like we did in Europe) under the auspices of “protecting the oil”.

Under the SDR system (global fiat central banking) the price that each nation will pay for SDR’s is based on a number things like the health of a nations internal economy (war is Grrrreat! for the economy) as well as what sort of resources each nation brings to the table. Although the dollar as world reserve currency is going away, the USA will not be giving up the advantages of reserve currency status. While the USA does bring a lot of resources to the table, our military (central banker muscle) will also control the flow of oil from the middle east. That is why it took so long for the US to sign the 2010 Code of Reforms….we needed time to get all our chess pieces in place. That control of the worlds greatest resource ensures that our price for SDR’s will remain artificially low as the global debt plantation expands.

We can spend our time debating how to fix our fraudulent elections or trying to replace Common Core with something even more fucked up or we can end the fed and derail the global elitist scum. Yeah, I know. That’s way too hard. Best to just figure out a way to go along to get along. Give your cannon fodder children and grandchildren my regards and warm wishes for them to find safe spaces on the battlefield.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

When some fool starts talking war I immediately point to their young sons and now daughters and the horrors of combat ! And I also point out the damage will be here at home from every single convienance they depend on , they’re daily life will be nothing but hardship thirst and starvation if they survive the onslaught of what could be fighting on their front yard ! People of good conscience need to speak up to these liberal and conservative babblers that actually think the American military will keep them free from harm and the damage far away . I am certain that may be the plan but this time we as a nation are ill prepared nationally , physically or mentally as a people for a real WAR ! So to all you war hawks boat guy will stand and fight from my weakened position if I must but let’s try MINDING OUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS FOR A CHANGE , KEEP OUR DICK BEATERS OUT OF THE REST OF THE WORLDS BUSINESS BECAUSE OUR OWN BUSINESS AT HOME IS ABOUT AS FUCKED UP AS IT COULD POSSIBLEY BE !

Stucky

Very nice article.

What has ol’ Stucky been saying for the past year as to why you should vote for Trump?
—-1) Immigration
—-2) War

Trump at least has the potential to “fix” both issues or, at least slow down the rate of acceleration to total destruction.

I should add a third reason; selection of Supreme Court.

Vote Trump, save America.

kokoda - 100% Deplorable
kokoda - 100% Deplorable

“…a report that will be released Wednesday by the liberal Center for American Progress, call for stepped up military action to deter President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Russian forces in Syria.”

Where is the report to deter stepped up military action by the U.S. where our national defense is not involved? Where was that report for Libya and Syria?

Suzanna
Suzanna

100%

John Coster

One of the prime functions of the mainstream media is to conceal from the public what these “foreign policy elites” are doing. It’s the most basic technique of propagandists throughout the ages: endlessly repeat statements in which are embedded unspoken assumptions. Hence the constant talk of “rebels” in Syria assumes that the strife there is a civil war intended to redress the grievances of the population rather than an invasion by western powers. This was, of course, the case with Libya as well, a country that by all accounts was very prosperous till it became another theater for western supported gang warfare. So much for Qadafi’s plan for a gold backed African currency. Whatever may be said of Assad or Qadafi, neither of them inflicted misery and death upon hundreds of thousands of civilians. It is profoundly ironic that so many “liberals”, among whom are most of the remaining protesters of the Vietnam War, should be so supportive of Hillary Clinton. I suppose that if there were a draft and large numbers of boots on the ground, they might look a little deeper. But that would be uncomfortable and these people, for the most part, are comfortable and eager to consume the pablum dished out by the mainstream media. Unfortunately, they are also much more likely to vote than many people. When implied and unexamined assumptions are insufficient, the proven tactic is to “disappear” the subject much as individuals in repressive regimes can be “disappeared”. We haven’t heard much about Haiti recently, have we? Perhaps because there are serious questions about the Clinton Foundation’s work there. A horrific humanitarian disaster just off shore has ceased to exist. When people of my generation successfully questioned all of the erroneous justifications for the Vietnam war, a conflict that squandered American prosperity and integrity, we thought to ourselves, “Never again”. Unfortunately, that slogan has been adopted by the War Party in Washington. Never again do they intend to let the most basic questions be asked, questions about whose assets are really being protected by a given conflict such as why it’s in the interests of the American people to control events in Ukraine even if it means our liberal establishment supporting far right remnants of a pro-Nazi party. Chris Wallace never questioned any of the basic assumptions our “foreign policy elites” have drilled into the public mind. He must have forgotten the student strikes and street protests we both experienced in Cambridge years ago. The carnage in the Middle East must be approaching or even surpassing the levels we saw in Vietnam and the refugee crisis is unprecedented. It is a sad and very dangerous time for our country.

Suzanna
Suzanna

excellent synopsis Mr. C.

ragman, a redneck from the basket
ragman, a redneck from the basket

I’ll support “war” when our Constitution is followed and congress declares war. Also, Chelsea and the other worthless spawn of the elites must be on the front lines wif they M16s. Based on this, I don’t think I’ll be supporting “war” anytime soon.

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