[Kzyxtalk] Gen. Wesley Clark

[sako4 at comcast.net]

WHY ARE AMERICANS DYING IN THE MIDDLE EAST? WHY ARE WE THERE? 
I had the pleasure of speaking with General Wesley Clark today. I am reminded of how important his insights are as to the causes of America's decline in power, influence, and credibility throughout the world. 
These remarks (below) by General Wesley Clark about a "policy coup" are the key to understanding the never-ending war of regime changes that has become U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East ever since President George W. Bush and his cohorts from the Project for a New American Century hijacked our country. 
Be it Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, and now, Syria, this policy coup has been an abject failure -- costing approximately 7,000 lives of U.S. military killed, another 60,000 U.S. military wounded, and trillions of dollars in national treasure wasted -- and it has directly lead to the formation of ISIS. 
Approximately 210,000 Afghan, Iraqi, and Pakistani civilians have also died violent deaths as a direct result of the wars. 
Civilian war deaths from malnutrition, and a damaged health system and environment, likely far outnumber deaths from combat. 
The failed policy coup has also lead to a flood of war refugees in a troubled world today. 
This group of subversives at the Project for a New American Century included well-known names like Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jeb Bush, William Kristol, Henry Rowen, and Robert Kagan, of course. It also included Francis Fukuyama, Fred Iklé, Frank Gaffney, Eliot Asher Cohen, Bruce Jackson, Zalmay Khalilzad, Reuel Gerecht, Peter Rodman, Stephen Rosen, Gary Schmitt, Vin Weber, and George Weigel. 
None of the above are decorated war heroes. Few are even veterans. They're all think tank-types...talking heads, b.s. artists. 
Meanwhile, General Wesley Clark is the retired 4-star U.S. Army general who was the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the 1999 War on Yugoslavia. 
What does General Clark teach us? 
He teaches us that if you want to start a war, the unwashed masses must be convinced to send their brothers, sons, and fathers to die on the front lines. 
How do you do that? 
General Clark tells us how. 
The specter of an external enemy must be etched into the collective mind of the masses through trauma, exaggeration, and repetition. History must be whitewashed, twisted, and cherry picked down to a politicized nursery rhyme. At no point should the real motives or consequences of such wars ever be raised as a subject for national debate. 
-- John Sakowicz at www.kmecradio.org 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166 



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