Is Washington Deaf As Well as Criminal?
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, August 16, 2012
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=32376
The
morons who rule the American sheeple are not only dumb and blind, they
are deaf as well. The ears of the american “superpower” only work when
the Israeli prime minister, the crazed Netanyahu, speaks. Then
Washington hears everything and rushes to comply.
Israel is a tiny insignificant state, created by
the careless British and the stupid Americans. It has no power except
what its american protector provides. Yet, despite Israel’s
insignificance, it rules Washington.
When a resolution introduced by the Israel Lobby is
delivered to Congress, it passes unanimously. If Israel wants war,
Israel gets its wish. When Israel commits war crimes against
Palestinians and Lebanon and is damned by the hundred plus UN
resolutions passed against Israel’s criminal actions, the US bails
Israel out of trouble with its veto.
The power that tiny Israel exercises over the
“worlds’s only superpower” is unique in history. Tens of millions of
“christians” bow down to this power, reinforcing it, moved by the
exhortations of their “christian” ministers.
Netanyahu lusts for war against Iran. He strikes out
against all who oppose his war lust. Recently, he called Israel’s top
generals “pussies” for warning against a war with Iran. He regards
former Israeli prime ministers and former heads of the Israeli
intelligence service as traitors for opposing his determination to
attack Iran. He has denounced america’s servile president Obama and
america’s top military leader for being “soft on Iran.” The latest poll
in Israel shows that a solid majority of the Israelis are opposed to an
Israeli attack on Iran. But Netanyahu is uninterested in the opinion of
Israeli citizens. He has Washington watching his back, so he is war mad.
It is a mystery why Israelis put Netanyahu in public office instead of
in an insane asylum.
Netanyahu is not alone. He has the american
neoconservatives in his corner. The american neoconservatives are as
crazed as Netanyahu. They believe in nuclear war and are itching to nuke
some Muslim country and then get on to nuking Russia and China. It is
amazing that no more than two or three dozen people have the fate of the
entire world in their hands.
The Democratic Party is helpless before them.
The Republican Party is their vehicle.
The Russians, watching Netanyahu push Washington
toward dangerous confrontations keep raising their voices about the
danger of nuclear war.
On May 17 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
warned the West against launching “hasty wars,” which could result
“although I do not want to scare anyone” in “the use of a nuclear
weapon.”
On November 30 of last year the Chief of the General
Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia warned of nuclear war with NATO.
General Nikolai Makarov said that NATO’s eastward expansion meant that
the risk of Russia coming into conflict with NATO had “risen sharply.”
General Makarov said, “I do not rule out local and regional armed
conflicts developing into a large-scale war, including using nuclear
weapons.”
Here is Russian president Medvedev (currently the
prime minister) describing the steps toward nuclear war that Russia has
taken pushed by the crazed warmongers in Washington wallowing in their
insane hubris:
With regard to the american missile bases on Russia’s
borders, “I have made the following decisions. First, I am instructing
the Defense Ministry to immediately put the missile attack early warning
radar station in Kaliningrad on combat alert. Second, protective cover
of Russia’s strategic nuclear weapons will be reinforced as a priority
measure under the program to develop our air and space defenses. Third,
the new strategic ballistic missiles commissioned by the Strategic
Missile Forces and the Navy will be equipped with advanced missile
defense penetration systems and new highly-effective warheads. Fourth, I
have instructed the Armed Forces to draw up measures for disabling
missile defense system data and guidance systems. These measures will be
adequate, effective, and low-cost. Fifth, if the above measures prove
insufficient, the Russian Federation will deploy modern offensive weapon
systems in the west and south of the country, ensuring our ability to
take out any part of the US missile defense system in Europe. One step
in this process will be to deploy Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad
Region. Other measures to counter the European missile defense system
will be drawn up and implemented as necessary. Furthermore, if the
situation continues to develop not to Russia’s favor, we reserve the
right to discontinue further disarmament and arms control measures.”
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said, as
politely as possible, that the US seeks to enslave the world, that the
US seeks vassals, not allies, that the US seeks to rule the world and
that the US is a parasite on the world economy. It would be difficult
for an informed person to take exception with Putin’s statements.
Putin told the politicians in Washington and Western
and Eastern European capitals that surrounding Russia with
anti-ballistic missiles “raises the specter of nuclear war in Europe.”
Putin said that the Russian response is to point nuclear armed cruise
missiles, which cannot be intercepted by anti-ballistic missiles, at the
US missile bases and at European capitals. The American move, Putin
said, “could trigger nuclear war.”
Putin has been trying to wake up the american puppet
states in Europe at least since February 13, 2007. At the 43rd Munich
Conference on Security Policy, Putin said that the unipolar world that
Washington was striving to achieve under its banner, “is a world in
which there is one master, one sovereign. And at the end of the day this
is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for
the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within.”
That has certainly happened to the US which now has a
police state as thorough-going as Nazi Germany. And even better armed:
http://rt.com/usa/news/dhs-ammo-rounds-security-560/print/
Putin went on to tell his European audience that in
Russia, “we are constantly being taught about democracy. But for some
reason those who teach us do not want to learn themselves.” Instead,
Putin said, “we are seeing a greater and greater disdain for the basis
principles of international law. And independent legal norms are, as a
matter of fact, coming increasingly closer to one state’s legal system.
One state and, of course, first and foremost the United States, has
overstepped its national borders in every way. This is visible in the
economic, political, cultural and educational policies it imposes on
other nations. Well, Who likes this? Who is happy about this?”
People are not happy, Putin said, because they don’t
feel safe. Not to feel safe “is extremely dangerous. It results in the
fact that no one feels safe. I want to emphasize this–no one feels
safe!” The result, Putin said, is “an arms race.”
Putin politely unbraided the Italian defense
minister, a person owned by Washington, for suggesting that NATO or the
EU could take the place of the UN in justifying the use of force against
sovereign countries. Putin took exception to the idea that Washington
could use its puppet organization or its puppet states to legitimize an
act of US aggression. Putin stated flatly: “The use of force can only be
considered legitimate if the decision is sanctioned by the UN.”
Putin went on to discuss the forked tongue of
Washington. Reagan and Gorbachev had firm agreements, but Reagan’s
successors put “frontline forces on our borders. . . . The stones and
concrete blocks of the Berlin Wall have long been distributed as
souvenirs. But we should not forget that the fall of the Berlin Wall was
possible thanks to a historic choice – one that was also made by our
people, the people of Russia – a choice in favor of democracy, freedom,
openness and a sincere partnership with all the members of the big
European family. And now they are trying to impose new dividing lines
and walls on us – these walls may be virtual but they are nevertheless
dividing ones that cut through our continent. And is it possible that we
will once again require many years and decades, as well as several
generations of politicians, to dissemble and dismantle these new walls.”
Putin’s speech of more than 6 years ago shows that he
has Washington’s number. Washington is The Great Pretender, pretending
to respect human rights while Washington slaughters Muslims in seven
countries on the basis of lies and fabricated intelligence. The american
people, “the indispensable people,” support this murderous policy.
Washington uses the status of the dollar as reserve currency to exclude
countries that do not do Washington’s bidding from the international
clearing system.
Washington, awash in hubris like Napoleon and Hitler
before they marched off into Russia, has turned a deaf, dumb, and blind
ear to Putin during the entirety of the 21st century. Speaking on May
10, 2006, Putin said: “We are aware of what is gong on in the world.
Comrade wolf [the US] knows whom to eat, he eats without listening, and
he’s clearly not going to listen to anyone.”
“Where,” Putin asked, is Washington’s “pathos about
protecting human rights and democracy when it comes to the need to
pursue its own interests?” For Washington, “everything is allowed, there
are no restrictions whatsoever.”
China also has caught on. Now the hubris that drives
Washington toward world hegemony confronts two massive nuclear powers.
Will the criminal gang in Washington drive the world to nuclear
extinction?
Washington, thinking that it owns the world, has
imposed more unilateral sanctions on Iran without any basis in any
recognized law. The imposed sanctions are nothing but Washington’s
assertion that its might is right.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Washington
could stick its sanctions up its ass. “We consider efforts to impose
internal American legislation on the entire world completely
unacceptable.”
Washington will do what it can to assassinate Putin
and effect regime change through the Russian “opposition” that
Washington funds. Failing that, Washington’s pursuit of world hegemony
has run up against a brick wall. If the fools in Washington with their
hubris-inflated egos don’t back off, that mushroom cloud they have been
warning about will indeed blossom over Washington.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of
the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps
Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university
appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following.