Hurricanes Give Americans Taste of Disaster Washington’s Wars Bring to Others

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

Florida residents from the eastern part of Panama City Beach to Apalachicola now know what a war zone is like. 750,000 people are without power and without water. Thousands of homes and commercial structures no longer exist. Mexico Beach has been more or less wiped off the face of the earth. Many areas are still inaccessible. Many people are still trapped in place because of debris and downed trees across roads.

Families searching for missing family members are at times obstructed by police trying to keep looters and gawkers out of the area and trying to save what little traffic capacity there is for emergency and repair crews. It is difficult to image people so lacking in humanity that they go to loot what little remains of the property of such damaged people.

But perhaps it is not difficult to image such people. Perhaps such people have been running US foreign policy since the Clinton regime. If you look at these photos of the damage:
https://weather.com/safety/hurricane/news/2018-10-09-hurricane-michael-photos, you will have an idea of the damage “our” government acting in “our” name has inflicted on eight countries since the Clinton regime: Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and the ongoing atrocity in Yemen. Anyone looking at the devastation of the Florida panhandle from Panama City to Apalachicola could think they are looking at the work of Dick Cheney and his Zionist neocon warmongers that devastated the Middle East and North Africa.

Americans are a curious people. They sent large sums of money to parents whose children were allegedly killed in school shootings, the reality of which many challenge, and they sent large sums of money to support Christine Blasey Ford for accusing Kavanagh of attempted rape despite her inability to substantiate her charge. Will the compassion and empathy that responds to ideological crimes such as those ascribed to “white heterosexual victimizers,” gun owners, and illegal immigration opponents also respond to the victims of Hurricane Michael and US foreign policy?

Why is it that the liberal-progressive-left can get so upset about an alleged attempted rape 30 or 40 years ago but accept without protest Washington’s destruction of the lives, prospects, and infrastructure of millions of peoples in eight countries? All of the immigrants about which Trump complains are people fleeing from America’s wars on their countries. If America and Europe do not want refugees, why do they engage in wars that produce refugees?

Is this simple question beyond the intelligence of Western politicians?

Are Americans aware that the latest national defense posture statement reaffirms the neoconservative priority that America prevail over the world? Do Americans understand that Washington considers Russia and China to be threats simply because they have independent foreign and economic polcies? Do Americans understand that American hegemony means that no country is permitted to be sovereign?

No, of course, they don’t. The presstitute media doesn’t tell them.
Between the flag-wavers and the Democratic Party’s Identity Politics there is massive ignorance. A war with Russia and China is national suicide. A war with Iran is regional suicide. We need a government that understands this.

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Coalclinker
Coalclinker

I could put an end right now to all of this business of people and their properties getting blown away each hurricane season: no more government issued or subsidized insurance. After a decade or so the Southern coastlines will return to what they always were- places where only shrimpers, fishermen, and other associated Crackers will live because no one else will buy that land and they live there because it’s their living and it’s all they can afford.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

Military intervention around the world by the US government in my lifetime has rarely been for some serious National cause to protect and defend the American people just follow the money the real money selling the tools of the trade . Now there is some economic treason for you from Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street circle jerking their way into the fabric of the so called American way .
As for federally subsidized flood insurence , that plan was never intended to cover that expensive beach house or river front vacation home , the purpose was to protect the food production from farming and seafood . In the catastrophic flood or storm that strikes every few decades that wipes out the food producers . Restore them and get them up and running ASAP so the nation can eat .
Wealthy intrest that own government destroyed the true premis of nearly everything that made America great and they are hard at it even now from the left or right “FOLLOW THE MONEY”

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

“Rarely?” Please list those military interventions that actually qualify. Here, I’ll provide sufficient space for your answer: _.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

To say none may be a reach without serious research however looking at Vietnam , and everything since perhaps none is the correct number you are looking for .
So far in my life the people used by this nation for military missions were used abused in a series of fools errands with nothing to show for it but battered or dead bodies and supporting one side then the other till all involved hate Americans many with good reason .

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