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Generation after Generation 120 years of War
There is no manner in which a military action against Iran can serve long term US interests.
by Jack JC
True strategic thinking takes into account all facets of a problem, the technological, social, military, diplomatic, historic and so on. Each of these factors must be weighed for their long term and short term effects and probabilities assigned. When a disconnect is seen between the desired effects on a sovereign nation and the recommended course of action, then unseen forces must be guiding from behind.
In this article there is no manner in which a military action against Iran can serve long term US interests.
FP — Singh : “Whereas Washington tends to see Beijing as torn between conflicting priorities, Chinese strategists see the Islamic Republic as a potential partner in their strategic rivalry with the United States. Unless Beijing can be convinced that the costs of obstructing U.S. efforts on Iran outweigh the benefits of doing so, the Chinese will be of little help. Shifting China’s calculus in this manner ultimately requires that the United States develop a credible military option to neutralize Iran’s nuclear-weapons aims.”
JC : Why does the US need to ‘develop a credible military option’? At this time the USA acquires sufficient oil from continental North American sources, Venezuela, Africa, Saudi Arabia, and other ME countries. There is no real strategic advantage for a sovereign US to interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign Iran, or to interfere in the affairs of China who happens to be the US’s largest creditor. If oil costs money or resources in exchange, pay it and move on. The US already spends about 43% of the total world defense budget and Iran is far down the list – China, in second place, is about 8%. By bringing the fifth fleet home, buying oil as needed and disarming the situation by removing the threat of force, there is real economic advantage for US citizens in decreased taxes and opportunity to reduce sovereign debt. For the US to ‘need’ to develop a credible military option, some other force must be at play.
ENERGY meets INDUSTRY! Win! Win!
FP– Singh : “The effects are pernicious. Increasing Chinese trade with Iran — projected to reach $40 billion in 2011, up from $30 billion last year, according to the Chinese ambassador to Iran — eases the pressure on Tehran and provides the Iranian regime with revenue, expertise, and other resources. It also leads to howls of protest by European and Asian firms that have curtailed their business with Iran only to see it backfilled by Chinese competitors.”
JC : In a wonderful display of ‘fuzzy logic’ the writers now claim that the Chinese are taking over lucrative contracts that US companies might have received, if the US government hadn’t sanctioned the hell out of Iran. So with the sanctions come a price, paid for by US citizens who are losing jobs to Chinese firms because the US government isn’t willing to ante up and talk to Iran. Obviously, there’s another factor at work!
FP — Singh : “Indeed, from a security perspective, Iran’s geographic position is unique — it is the only Gulf supplier that China can reach by both pipelines and sea routes. This diversification of supply lines helps reassure those in Beijing who most fear a foreign interdiction campaign or blockade that would cut China off from its energy supplies.”
JC : This is true, China sees Iran as a source of oil outside the influence of the USA. Strategically speaking, oil is a requirement for running a modern infrastructure and the Chinese have seen how the USA sold advanced weaponry to Japan, then cut off their oil flow, creating one of the factors leading to WWII. Obviously, it is important to ensure your supply chain is under your control or influence – Sun Tzu covered this in 700 BC. However, this may prove only a temporary need on China’s part as the move to Thorium Breeder reactors is underway. http://energyfromthorium.com/2011/01/30/china-initiates-tmsr/
US supplied Israel 55 powerful bunker-busting bombs capable of destroying buried targets.
“This support has continued and, in certain areas, seems to have expanded. For instance, news reports that arms from Tehran have found their way into the hands of militants in Iraq and Afghanistan mention not only Chinese-made anti-ship cruise missiles, but also sniper rifles, armor-piercing rounds, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-aircraft missiles and guns, mines, and other components for explosive devices. In a February op-ed, retired Adm. James Lyons, a former head of U.S. Pacific Fleet, wrote of the probable transfer from China to Iran of passive radar technology that could contribute to Iran’s recently announced anti-ship ballistic-missile program. According to Iranian media outlets, the same week as Admiral Lyons’s op-ed appeared, Maj. Gen. Wang Pufeng of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences was meeting with Iran’s defense attaché in Beijing to express China’s desire for expanded military ties.”
US war for Israel lose-lose!
JC : The ‘news source’ cited dates from 2007, and there is very little biographical information about the author who writes for the “Heritage Foundation”, and was allegedly involved in the Clinton administration. So let’s ask a question, why does Iran not have a right to some modern weaponry? The US and Britain in 1953 engineered a coup via the CIA and MI6 to bring back the Shah of Iran, overthrowing a democratically elected government. This was done on behalf of ‘big oil’ as the Iranian government had nationalized Iran’s oil fields. When the Shah was ousted, the US cut ties (unless we discuss the Iran-Contra Affair). Countries have the inherent right to self defense, the US, Britain France, all keep their weapons systems modern – why not Iran? However, if you have already decided to go to war, you want your opponent as weak as possible.
“For years, a parade of high-level U.S. envoys — from State Department nonproliferation advisor Bob Einhorn to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to President Barack Obama himself — have trekked to Beijing on Iran-related missions, only to come up short. The truth is that it is China, not the United States, that has been reluctant to engage on Iran — Beijing has frequently declined to send high-level envoys to meetings of the so-called “P5+1″ powers, choosing instead to send its nearest ambassador, or be absent entirely. China hardly seems eager for more dialogue on Iran.”
JC : Perhaps because, strategically, Beijing adheres to a policy of ‘non-interference’? And in whose basic strategic interest is interference anyway?
“Beijing appears to fuel the very behavior that is most provocative to the United States and its allies — behavior that could destabilize the Middle East. Furthermore, other U.S. allies — Japan and South Korea, for example — have continued to obtain sizeable energy supplies from Iran while actively supporting the international sanctions regime.”
JC : Perhaps Japan and South Korea just play along to keep the US ‘happy’? DeGaulle once said that countries do not have friends, only interests – if it is in the interests of Japan and South Korea to do business with Iran, they shall. A corollary of the actions undertaken by South Korea and Japan is that the US needs their assistance and support more than they need the US’s – a symptom of waning power.
“Zhang’s sentiment has been echoed by other high-ranking Chinese military officers — including Dai Xu, an outspoken Chinese Air Force colonel and Yin Zhuo, a Chinese rear admiral — in discussions of how China can counter the perceived threat posed by democratic rivals like India and the United States and protect its interests in the face of American power projection in the Gulf and across the Pacific.”
JC : Why does the US need see this as a threat? If the US can have international bases, why cannot other countries? I think the answer to this was best given by Smedley Butler, although ‘Manifest Destiny to PNAC’ supplies the historical context. Honestly, the US 5th fleet is in Bahrain to protect US oil supply, it is entirely expected that another industrial nation should do the same thing to protect theirs! The US need not confront over this, as the countries that primarily supply the US are not affected by a Chinese base. The important thing to note is that a Chinese base in Iran will reduce the risk of an attack from another country – so for the US to protest so strongly, there must be an ulterior strategic motive.
“The cultivation of Iran’s security establishment and top-level leadership provides China with a strategically placed, regionally powerful client that can frustrate U.S. aims in a region where China seeks greater influence. For China, Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons may be a negative development, but it is preferable to a reorientation toward the West.”
JC : Rather like the US cultivates South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and now Vietnamese security establishment and top-level leadership? According to VT, Mr Singh’s info is dated, Iran already has nuclear capability.
“Although diplomatic cajoling won’t make much headway, Washington does have ways to induce Beijing to reassess its approach to Iran. Exercising these options, however, requires taking a step that the Obama administration has so far avoided: establishing a credible military threat to Iran. CCP strategists who judge Chinese interests as being well-served by current U.S.-Iran tensions would not make the same calculation in light of a credible U.S. threat to disarm the Iranian regime. Such a scenario would threaten China’s oil supplies and increase its energy costs, and could threaten Iran’s China-friendly regime. The United States need not dismiss or downplay the very real risks that would accompany conflict with Iran, but it must persuade Beijing and Tehran alike that this option is the alternative to full compliance with international sanctions.”
JC : The author needs to read ‘A Bridge Too Far’, then watch ‘The Three Kingdoms’, and then read ‘The Art of War’. The US is exhausted with over 10 years of unremitting war, depleted equipment, unpayable debts, an increasingly hobbled foreign policy, and a populace at home demanding the means to eat. For China or Russia the greatest gift the US could give, is an attack on Iran.
In martial arts the trick is to use your opponents force to defeat them. Both Russia and China see the US attempts at encirclement and both will do as they need to protect their sovereign interests and a US attack on Iran could lead to the complete fall of the USA. However, if you read Chinese history they are not a culturally violent people – when the various dynasties (Zhou excepted) were running smoothly, the armies languished. The Russians suffered terribly in WWII, they do not wish another war and their infrastructure is in disrepair. Again, what benefit is there for the US to attack Iran when simply meeting face to face, and negotiating trade deals that could benefit US workers is possible?
Perhaps the reason these authors espouse the military solution is the people who pay them to represent their interests. It appears from my brief and superficial analysis that should the US confront Iran militarily, Israel would win in the short term as they would be free to push for Greater Israel with their largest opponent neutralized. The long term winners would most probably be China and Russia. To finalize these links, Mr Singh’s organization is an offshoot of AIPAC (American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee) and we note from Mr Singh’s biography his heavy connection to Israel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=27
And we also note the following about Newmeyer-Deal. http://www.fpri.org/about/people/newmyer.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfer_Center_for_Science_and_International_Affairs
and the organizations she represents: http://www.fpri.org/about/people/board.html and http://www.ltstrategy.com/
Sun Tzu suggests in ‘The Art of War’ that the most capable generals win without fighting, suggesting that Israeli strategists have mastered Master Sun’s writings for they are using their soft power to push their largest donor into a war that may well destabilize it – all for a chance to gain Lebensraum.
Reference:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/31/china_iran_nuclear_relationship
Foiled Terror Plot w/ Iran – Fake?
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Jack,
I worked in Beijing for nearly 10 years, would you like to hear the real story? There’s a high level traitor involved….
yes
Hello OS,
This article is primarily about Israeli paid schills masquerading as ‘patriotic’ US Think Tanks and proposing ‘strategic moves’ that primarily serve Israel’s interests while pretending to serve the US’s.
That being said, I am always interested in receiving more information and an e-mail to VT here would be appreciated – If you can send it to editor@veteranstoday.com and ask it be forwarded I am sure Debbie or Gordon will oblige.
Cheers!
That being said….have a good day.
In your position Jack, less is better, the more you know tends to draw attention from all directions. Thereafter, it becomes a more dangerous world. I prefer less, but sometimes can not turn away.
Good luck, and be safe.
I say Nuke Israel and rid the World of this Parasitic Race once and for all..!!!
Well its a good start but the Jews are also in the US (6 million) and .5 million in Russia
That would be a very big MISTAKE,Dont use Nukes or China and Russia will wipe us out
China and Russia would both be very happy to see Israel “neutralized.” Russia hates the bastards for their Bolshevik experiment which trashed their country and China would love nothing more than to see the western (Jewish) banking system rot in Hell. I’m willing to bet they’d even supply the nuke.
And from what i see a few Big NON KILL CARRIERS will be DEMOLISHED
The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck, the Zionist takeover of the US has allowed, and continues to allow, them to rapidly catch up strategically and economically.
The Zionists haven’t just trashed the living standards of the American people, they have done catastophic damage to the position of the US in the world.
The Zionists don’t care though, the US has always been nothing more than a means to an end for them. When they have bled it dry they will simply move on to the next host, as they have done so many times before. They can see that day approaching, and will push all-out for war with Iran beforehand.
… helped by the US Patriots at Washington Institute for Near East Policy … bought and paid for schills are useful.
When was it the last time the US did something in the Middle East that actually benefitted Americans, directly or indirectly or even tangentially?
The war in Iraq, orchestrated by aIPAC based on lies has cost us 5000 soldiers, tens of thousands of injured soldiers and, according to Prof. Stieglitz, well north of $5.5 trillion. We don’t even have any soft benefits. We are now hated by 1.7 billion people (at least). China and Russia are laughing at us and we have no influence left in the world. The only threat we have are our nuclear weapons. The problem with that is that since we are 70% consumption economy, we need all these people we are supposed to produce staff for us so that we can continue consuming….LOL
When you add in the long term costs of maintaining the traumatically injured soldiers, the costs soar even higher. Add in the possibility that Iraq could go after reparations when the US is sufficiently weakened and the sum would be catastrophic.
There is also the opportunity cost of what those trillions might have been spent on instead, such as commercial R&D, infrastructure, education etc.
Hello rgalton,
A very good point! I find it difficult to get the concept of ‘opportunity costs’ through to people though, even at the VP level, which is quite surprising.
Cheers!
rgalton….on target………
to attach Iran …..ashame…. much shame ……
I laughed real hard when I heard that Hilliary’s mom died. I heard, I laughed, she died.
I still believe the Britannia alliance and the energy needs of Europe to support all that genetic slag calling itself ‘royalty’ and bureaucracy is the basis for our problem. Israel can’t do squat without the O.K. of the Rothschild bank and the grand patron of freemasonry, who is the queen of England. That is their courthouse ‘sitting there as the ‘world court of the world’, satanic symbolism and all (Torture R Us). The Suez and the surrounding oil fields are of great strategic and financial importance to the GS(genetic slag) of Europe.
Major General Smedley Butler warned FDR of this alliance’s attempt to overthrow the U.S. in 1933 and the same sick molester Skull and Bones and freemasonry satanic kidnapping crowd is trying to do it again. You guys need an executiioner? You should not have too much problem finding people who have seen these sick fucks at work. They are racist killers of the worst kind, cowards, and they are too compulsive to invent anything and so BUY technology and weapons for their own sick ends.
The OWS movement seems to be going quite well except at the NWO headquarter town of Denver, Colorado. Alert reporters in Oakland caught some FBI rats breaking windows and doing other vandalism, as usual, for the cameras in plain clothes. You would think they would grow out of that crap. The OWS crowds have for the most part been quite orderly and restrained, considering. The various police departments are finding out that the top government and finance leaders are as guilty as felonious criminals can be and that th SEC and Eric Holder, jr.’s office is a bunch of c_____ _______. This is GOOD. If people can be convinced they should cut the cord on their TV sets, I forecast an orderly win for justice and Eric Holder, Jr. being gone. Bribes and graft are the norm for contemporary government officials, so the filth factor is extensive.
I like that “genetic slag” characterization. Googling their photos is confirmation enough. All these inbred, Pharisaic elites hailing mostly from the Ivy League are the antithesis of justice insofar as their sole objective is sustaining their parasitism through the generations. You have to admire their chutzpah in calling it “sustained growth” these days, in which the only thing that’s going to be sustained is their total ownership of the world’s resources, including human labor, and the only thing that’s going to grow is their wealth and power by eliminating vast swaths of humanity and impoverishing the rest.
You mention secret, initiatory societies like Freemasonry, which are historically revealing insofar as the elites masked their depredations behind philanthropy, and empty catchwords like liberty, equality, and fraternity, and behind the public facade of the “knife and fork” brethren of low-level initiates assembled as window dressing and to be the eyes and ears on the ground in local politics.
While today we may not be privy to the conversations, conspiracies, collusion, lying, propaganda movements, and so on of the elites and their think tanks, we don’t have to be. We can assume that the readily available documents and correspondence of Freemasonry, the Illuminati, Carbonari, Alta Vendetta, etc., reveal their mode of operation and thinking. As for the masonic B’nai B’rith, a review of Talmudic pronouncements on relations with the gentiles is illuminating enough.
The idea remains to disarm the populace of every country, including ours, by demanding we throw away our rights in the name of some scare, in our case 800 years advance in rights and individual liberty over this bogus war on terror, and “correct” the economic injustice and evil disparity of wealth acquired through institutionalized plunder by increasing it under another name. For example, “consumer protection” legislation like Dodd-Frank further enables the Wall St/bankster rape of the American wage earner, farmer, and small businessman.
The big picture is that these elites intend to cut Americans’ wages in half, more or less, within the next few years. The value of a man or woman’s labor is now arbitrary and will be determined behind the lodge door, so to speak, through the take-back called inflation.
Looking at it another way, through the Fed and its clones in Europe, a major portion of every wage earner’s labors, beyond the everyday tax burden, and of people’s savings will be handed over to the elites, with an automatic spill over to their lackeys.
Their chutzpah knows no bounds, either, since they’ve put a former chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank in as a candidate for president, and through their ownership of the media, the morons in the Republican Party have been persuaded to make him the leader.
What else do we need to know? Both parties are criminal enterprises looking to divide up the labor and wealth of this nation, and to serve as cannon fodder in their geopolitical military schemes, with the only difference that I can see being that the Republicans are against diluting the booty with too many annoying bureaucrats.
About 65 years late.
Or is the US dangling the bothersome rat above the Persian Cat’s head?
http://pulsemedia.org/2010/03/15/israel-is-putting-american-lives-at-risk/
Netanyahu is probably the most American PM of Israel of all time. Plant’d. Mossad sux CIA rox!
VIVA SECULAR PALESTINE !
I REALLY WONDER IF ANY GOVERNMENT IS SANE IN THIS WORLD. Every day you see the nunatic’s doing something very stupid. Judgement Day is right around the corner. GOD said its time for all the NUNATICS to burn in hell
All governments are inherently evil – some just hide it better.
Iran has many nice people, some of whom I went to school with. We did not talk religion and agreed that women were equal in status and different from men. They have not invaded anyone for over 100 yeqrs. NATO and th U.S. be damned for war mongering for the GSgenetic Slag) of England.
About ninety-nine percent of what most people know about Iran came straight from the Gentile Defamation League known as the mainstream media.
Elementary misunderstanding of official terminology. Are we talking about the US Corporation, or the country of United States of America? I’m not even sure that the country actually exists, unlike the corporation which was most certainly (and officially) founded and declared in indisputable historical documents. All according to maritime laws, with letters written on paper, and everything perfectly black in white.
‘Mere details’, you might say? Well, that’s where the misunderstanding of terminology comes to the light. While people of the country (formerly known as the U.S. of A.) have no interest in attacking a country half the world away, the owners of the US Corp. do have very much, and very heavily vested, interests in, not just attacking someone on the other side of the planet, but pulling the whole planet down the hell.
‘No, they don’t', you might say? Well, that’s where the misunderstanding of terminology comes to the light once again. Who do you think are the owners of the US Corp? People? Yeah, right…
Anyway, since we’re now talking about the inevitable (WW III, for the slow learners), why don’t we get down to business?
First of all, the phrase ‘hit them where it hurts’ can be useful even if no one that actually matters will be hurt when WW III breaks out. What can be hurt is the ability of the opponent (not the real opponent, of course, just those dumb servants like the US Corp.) to wage a prolonged war.
For example, how many of you think that the world (the whole planet) has enough oil reserves (real reserves, not the ones hopelessly stuck in the ground) for any prolonged warfare? Let’s say, for 3 months of a full-scale planetary war? Plenty of you? How about for even 1 month? Almost all of you? And what about just a couple of weeks? Every single one of you?
And that, my fellow war strategists, is the weakness that can be exploited in an incredibly successful manner. While warships and planes are of (some limited) importance (which makes them obvious targets for retaliation), what really matters in a war is the only thing that always matters in a war – energy. Energy sometimes means the people (f they fight with sticks and stones), sometimes the wind (in the old naval battles), and sometimes something completely different. In our case, energy means – oil.
Since Iran is positioned absolutely perfectly for the control of oil fields in the middle east, besides sticking a missile or two in those US, UK (also Corp.) and Israeli (my bet, yet another Corp.) warships and planes, and leveling Israel to the ground (with any extra missiles left), my top priority for waging a “Defensive War” (a new Israeli-Pentagon term which I use very loosely here) would be hitting every single *oil field* and *oil transportation choke point* in the near (and far) vicinity. That would, undoubtedly, piss off plenty of Arab countries in the region, but when one is waging a “Total Warfare” (yet another Israeli-Pentagon term), one doesn’t have many choices.
First, and most of all, striking the opponent (the dumb servants) where it hurts *most* is the top of all the top priorities. The cost to the opponent must be so utterly unbearable that any theoretical attack would actually be a practical suicide.
And that, my good folks, is why Iran has never had any choice but to acquire nuclear weapon capabilities… if we look at the problem objectively. I’m certain that subjective viewers will tend to disagree with me.
Personally, I’m not afraid of Iran having nuclear weapons. I’m afraid of Israel having dozens of them while no one else (that matters) in the region does. That makes Israelis overconfident, and overconfident are prone to suicidal behavior. Much like the US Corp. has proven over the last decade. And, believe me (or not), US Corp. is not going to stop its suicidal run until it finally manages to kill itself… which it was ordered to do (by the US Corp. owners) in the first place.
Therefore, the question of WW III is not if anymore. It’s when. The sooner, the better.
Good piece, Jack JC. The comments over at FP concur (except for the occasional incoherent Israeli troll.)
Thank you Hareli.
I have been following the comments section at FP and it’s good to see that most people are no longer biting.
Cheers!
In reply to above comments especially by
H.T. Lewis III, Dan and Bouncer – I salut.
It´s good to read you fellows. Veeeery good.
Here in Germany, at the end of a show, audiences have a habit of, all together, rhythmhically screaming:
ZU GA BE (one word, meaning: more) if the performance has been brilliant. So boys, here I go: ZU GA BE – ZU GA BE – ZU GA BE – ZU GA BE !!!
Normally, the artists then come back on stage – for some ZUGABE.
Write guys, write!
Oh, “genetic slag” is of course also smack on. I wonder if any of the slag, or perhaps even USraels Sec of State, Hitlery Clinton reads these pages.
Don´t forget guys, w r i t e, w r i t e, w r i t e !
Comment corrected:
While an attack on Iran is certainly not in the interests of the U.S., reading the Israeli press, many in the Israeli Security and Defense branches are emphatically stating that an attack on Iran would not be in Israel’s long-term interests either.
Prominent Israelis like the most recent Chief of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, Former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir, recently retired Israeli Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin, Former Chief of General Staff of the IDF Gabi Ashkenazi, former Defense Minister Benyamin Ben Eliezer, former chief of IDF intelligence Shlomo Gazit, and former Mossad director Ephraim HaLevy, and many others (http://www.eurasiareview.com/12062011-%e2%80%98an-attack-on-iran-will-end-israel-as-we-know-it%e2%80%99-oped/) are warning against an attack on Iran. Dagan said that Israel would not withstand a regional conflict ignited by an Israeli strike of Iran’s nuclear facilities. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-won-t-withstand-war-in-wake-of-strike-on-iran-ex-mossad-chief-says-1.365396 Dagan has said that Israel must not attack Iran, and it must accept the Arab peace initiative.
These former intelligence chiefs know that Netanyahu and his Defense Minister are anxious to detract from Palestinian pressure for their own state in the West Bank and Gaza and know that their way to do that is to attack Iran.
Of course there is no long term benefit to the US in attacking Iran. Only Israel will reap whatever benefits there are to be had…remember Israel scored big from US destruction of Iraq and didn’t even have to get its hands dirty…the PM said so.
Aren’t the lives of our children worth more than sacrificial lambs for Israel?
“Aren’t the lives of our children worth more than sacrificial lambs for Israel?”
That is point Mike, they are not – if you’re an Israeli politician, or a well paid US schill for Israel like the two authors of the original article are.
Your countrymen are bombarded with ‘strategic discourse’ benefiting only Israel by the stealthy use of US ‘patriotic’ sounding ‘Foundations’, Israeli funding, and US writers to spill US and other childrens blood for no reason – other than Israeli Lebensraum.
Cheers!
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Never in the history of mankind has a nation been so persistent and insistent in shooting itself in the foot so many times, as not being able to stand up anymore, as the USA, misled by “fancy” thinking provided by the Zion Talmudic Mafia assets-agents-sayanim, who infest all and every echelon of US civilian and military administration.
The US govt works hard, very hard indeed to alienate sovereign countries and make their heads of state seek less bellicose business partners in Asia, who do not try to impose a political line on them or interfere all the time in their internal affairs.
The USA lost Venezuela to China-Russia-Ukraine and Iran as business partners, because Bush insisted in considering Latin America as a US backyard. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez demanded only that his country be treated with respect and that its sovereignty be taken into account. The response had been a failed coup against Chávez in April 2002. Chávez tried again to get a better and closer relationship with president Obama to no avail.
The main reason is that the Israel Lobby stands in the way and keeps impeding a change in US foreign policy that would be for the benefit of US People and insure normalized and peaceful relations with all nations, including those that criticize Israel and its warmongering policies.