This week’s expected House vote to add more sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea is a prime example of how little thought goes into US foreign policy. Sanctions have become kind of an automatic action the US government takes when it simply doesn’t know what else to do.
No matter what the problem, no matter where on earth it occurs, the answer from Washington is always sanctions. Sanctions are supposed to force governments to change policies and do what Washington tells them or face the wrath of their people. So the goal of sanctions is to make life as miserable as possible for civilians so they will try to overthrow their governments. Foreign leaders and the elites do not suffer under sanctions. This policy would be immoral even if it did work, but it does not.
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Why is Congress so eager for more sanctions on Russia? The neocons and the media have designated Russia as the official enemy and the military industrial complex and other special interests want to continue getting rich terrifying Americans into believing the propaganda.
Why, just weeks after the White House affirmed that Iran is abiding by its obligations under the nuclear treaty, does Congress pass additional sanctions anyway? Washington blames Iran for “destabilizing” Syria and Iraq by helping them fight ISIS and al-Qaeda. Does this make any sense at all?
When is the last time Iran committed a terrorist act on our soil? It hasn’t. Yet we learned from the declassified 28 pages of the Congressional 9/11 report that Saudi Arabia was deeply involved in the 2001 attacks against Washington and New York. Who has funded al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria for years? Saudi Arabia. Yet no one is talking about sanctions against that country. This is because sanctions are not about our security. They are about politics and special interests.
Why is Congress poised to add yet more sanctions on North Korea? Do they want the North Korean people to suffer more than they are already suffering? North Korea’s GDP is half that of Vermont – the US state with the lowest GDP! Does anyone believe they are about to invade us? There is much talk about North Korea’s ballistic missile program, but little talk about 30,000 US troops and weapons on North Korea’s border. For Washington, it’s never a threat if we do it to the other guy.
Here’s an alternative to doing the same thing over and over: Let’s take US troops out of North Korea after 70 years. The new South Korean president has proposed military talks with North Korea to try and reduce tensions. We should get out of the way and let them solve their own problems. If Iran and Russia want to fight ISIS and al-Qaeda at the invitation of their ally, Syria, why stand in the way? We can’t run the world. We are out of money.
President Trump was elected to pursue a new kind of foreign policy. If he means what he said on the campaign trail, he will veto this foolish sanctions bill and begin dismantling neocon control of his Administration.
If Trump vetoes a bill containing new sanctions on Russia it will be seen as proof of Russian collusion by the MSM, Leftists< Democrats, and all other assorted anti Trumpers (including the Republican ones). It will be considered more grounds for impeachment by Waters/Pelosi and their crowd.
Like it or not, there are political considerations that have to be made in any veto of any bill.
Now do you see why politics is such an insidious evil?
Mainstream media will not stop and neither will the democrats. If Trump doesn’t veto it he shows he’s willing to have his foreign policy dictated to him from his domestic enemies. And then they’ll continue to blackmail and manipulate on every issue. There’s no definitive proof of russians doing the hacking and leaking btw
My point is not that he should/shouldn’t veto the bill. I couldn’t care less. My point is that TPTB just needs to rig the game so they win either way. Same ole shit.
This is a no win situation for the White House. The president is the one who is supposed to be in charge of foreign policy. This bill will hijack that responsibility and move it to Congress. For that reason he should veto this bill.
Yesterday I saw a clip of one of the sElected DC officials said that if it is vetoed by the President they would redo it so it was veto proof. That is what they should be made to do. Whether he vetoes it or not will change nothing of the viscous attacks by all those that are already foaming at the mouth. Let Trump be Trump!
Because Freeeeeeedom!!!
For our peeeeeeeeeeeople!!!
WIP, you said GIs are slaves; I now realize we are lower than slaves. A Master didn’t force his workers to the other side of the world to die in gun fights.
I said those who were drafted.
This policy would be immoral…. immoral yes DC is just that, and thats all they can be
Tired of being the Zionist banksters big stick yet? PS: One day the rest of the world will put some sanctions on US with teeth (like $100 for a $1 widget) and we aren’t gonna like that; then what Hell will the ZOG come up with?
This isn’t a bill to sanction Russia, Iran and one of those Koreas. It’s a bill to fuck with Trump. He should veto it and then crumple it up and throw it on the ground and take a piss on it.
He just killed funding to the “moderate rebels” aka Al Qeada. And he’s taking shit for that as doing Putin’s bidding. Might as well say fuck it and veto the sanctions.