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America; From Nation Building To Nation Destruction.
by Sami Jamil Jadallah
When I was growing up in Palestine, I remember the first picture I ever took with my family, and it was a picture in clothes we got from a Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) package. In those days, America’s gift to the Arabs was the CARE Package. Now, America’s gifts to the Arabs are the cluster and phosphorous bombs sent directly from the American government to the Arab people.
Major Crandall's UH-1D helicopter climbs skyward after discharging a load of infantrymen on a search and destroy mission - Source: Wikimedia Commons
If we look at America’s policy in the Middle East both past and present, we can see it is driven by ideological, political and military commitments to an ever-expanding Zionist Israel, always against America’s interests and always against America’s claimed ideals and principals.
In the days after WWII, America’s leadership by the likes of General George Marshall and Dean Acheson was committed to nation building after the near total destruction of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
The Marshall Plan with logistical, financial and administrative commitment to rebuilding West Europe and Japan is something that causes us to admire American spirit. However, it also causes us to wonder what went wrong in America’s foreign policy.
In the name of fighting Communism, the United States engaged itself directly or through proxies through many armed conflicts around world in support of kleptocracies in the Far East, in the Middle East, in Latin and South America, in Africa, and even in Communist East Europe such as what we saw with Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu.
In the Far East, of course Vietnam always comes to mind when Lyndon Johnson the president of the United States lied (see Gulf of Tonkin incident) his way to Congress and America was engaged in full scale war that killed and murdered more than one million Vietnamese and killed and murdered more than 55,000 American servicemen, and completely destroyed the infrastructures in Vietnam.
The Vietnam War was not limited to Vietnam—it was none other than the war criminal Henry Kissinger who decided to expand into Cambodia (incursion) and to Laos.
America also committed itself to supporting ruthless military dictatorships in both the Philippines and Indonesia, supporting klepto criminal regimes that laid waste to these two nations sowing the seed of revolutions that drove America’s allies Ferdinand Marcos and General Suhartoout of the country and out of office
In Iran, the story of re-installing the late and former Shah of Iran at a price of $100,000 is something always remembered and taught within the corridors of the State Department and the CIA. $100,000 did wonders by removing a freely elected Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq. Together with his close circle of friends, the late Shah of Iran not only looted the country, but engaged in the most cruel abuses of civil and human rights in partnership with the SAVAK and the Mossad. The demise of the Shah and subsequent rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran was but a result of the reckless criminal policies of the United States and its partner in crime the late Shah.
An Iraqi woman looks on as U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team search the courtyard of her house during a cordon and search in Ameriyah, Iraq - Source: Wikimedia Commons
Not too far from Iran, the United States also engaged in giving full unconditional support to Saddam Hussein as he ruthlessly took over the government of Iraq and carried out his brutal war against the people of Iraq.
The United States also gave Saddam the support he needed to engage in his 8 year war against post-Shah Iran. That war cost both Iraq and Iran more than two million lives, the destruction of their economies and infrastructures, and the fleecing of Gulf countries treasuries to the tune of $150 Billion.
Few years later and no sooner than the blood of the Iraq-Iran was dried, Saddam was at it again, this time with a tacit “wink” from the United States.
Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait brought about the destruction of both Iraq and Kuwait not to mention the hundreds of thousands who died during the conflict and the millions Iraqis, mostly elderly and children, who died as a result of the boycott. Once again, the Arab Gulf countries ended paying the bill to the tune of $700 Billion.
On the Iranian borders, the United States also decided to go to war against Afghanistan in retaliation for the September 11th attack on the Twin Towers in New York. Again, not so sure who is the beneficiary of such war—certainly not the United States and certainly not Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the United States was now not too happy with the behavior of its former buddy and ally Saddam, and decided to take advantage of the tragedy of 9/11, and invade Iraq under the pre-text that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, a lie perpetuated by George Bush and his Zionist Neocons, think tanks, and the main stream media. The War on Iraq was an Israeli war, not an American war.
Map of Israeli bombings of Lebanon - Source: Wikimedia Commons
More than 100,000 dead, more than 4 million displaced and now refugees both in and outside of Iraq. The United States left Iraq in ruins; a nation ruled by ruthless sectarian leadership, a nation divided along ethnic and sectarian lines with thieves, thugs and crooks as government leaders. Of course the cost to America was close to a trillion dollars with a crippled economy, thousands killed and tens of thousands left with permanent injuries. Now the same group of American Zionists who took the nation to war in Iraq wants the United States to go to war against Iran.
In the Middle East, the United States has consistently supported dictatorships that looted and ruined the countries including Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Palestinian Occupied Territories. In the case of Syria, price was silence along Israel’s borders.
We must not forget the many wars Israel engaged in against the Palestinians and against all of its neighbors near and far with the help of the United States. Thanks to unconditional financial, military and political support from the United States, Israel waged wars in ‘48, ‘56, ‘67, ‘81, ‘82 and more recently in 2006 against Lebanon with the support of the United States that rushed one million cluster bombs to Israel to drop on civilian targets in Lebanon, resulting in the destruction of housing projects, bridges, power stations, telecommunications centers, airports and marine facilities.
The Samouni Family in Gaza - Source: International Solidarity Movement
No less criminal than the War on Lebanon was The War on Gaza, when in December 2009; Israel commenced its Operation Cast Lead against the people of Gaza, attacking schools, hospitals, clinics, housing projects, and farms. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, were cheerleaders. Everyone in Gaza, militant or civilian was an equal opportunity target and victim for Israel and its US-supplied phosphorous bombs.
The story is no different in Central and Latin America where the United States supported ruthless dictatorships in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Panama. The United States gave full support to military dictatorships in Guatemala, El Salvador, and insurgent groups in Nicaragua. More than 500,000 people were killed and murdered in these wars, compliments of the United States.
Africa was no different with the United States always on the side of dictatorships and Apartheid in Zaire and South Africa, supporting a number of petty little dictatorships in the Central African Republic, in Liberia, one among many.
Too bad for America, too bad for the world, too bad for human dignity and mankind that the greatest “democracy” in the world turned from a country committed to building nations to a country committed to destruction on a global scale.
Skewed political ideology driven by anti-Communism, Evangelical Christianity and Zionism, liberal ruthless capitalism, are the driving force behind America’s wars against the world and against itself.
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Sami – I thought that you might be interested in a booklet which I have recently read called GENERAL PATTON’S WARNING – concerning General George S Patton and his untimely death. A lot is now known about his thoughts immediately after the Second World War following the discovery of letters sent regularly to his wife. He was a great critic of the evil ‘Morganthau Plan’. Morganthau, a jew, who as President Roosevelt’s ‘top adviser’ had wanted to starve most Germans to death and find various ways of murdering them all. Millions of German POWs were deliberately starved to death and the population were treated barbarically against all the rules of warfare. Patton hated this and tried to put a stop to it wherever he could. He openly resisted orders from Washington in this regard and then suddenly began to attract a terrible press from all the usual places.
Patton began to realise that the jews were not only manipulating the President but also the media back home – and he had also come to realise that the entire Soviet communist monster was in fact a massive Talmudic construct as well. Patton began to push for the US to deal with Russian communism there and then – whilst the nation was fully armed and prepared for war. He knew that the Soviets were at full stretch with little armour and the US could easily take them – but might not be able to as time progressed and the US disarmed. He became so frustrated that he decided to “Blow the lid off” the entire deception – and what is more run for President of the United States. He was without doubt the most popular General and would have almost certainly won by a landslide.
The day before he was to return to the US Major General Gay asked to see him. For some reason Patton’s driver of five years, Master Sergeant John L. Mimms, was strangely replaced with a new driver. At 11.45am, in clear weather and on a straight stretch of road, the driver of a GMC military truck turned his vehicle directly into the side of the 1938 Cadillac 75 Special Limousine in which Patton was being driven. Patton was the only person injured. He suffered some injuries but was not seriously hurt. While Patton was being transferred to the hospital the ambulance in which he was being carried was also crashed into by ANOTHER large US army lorry. This seems to have fatally wounded General Patton – although he also suffered an embolism – which can be brought on by being injected with a bubble of air – something anyone with basic medical knowledge could do. This time there was no mistake – and Patton was dead. It appears that there had been several other attempts on Patton’s life prior to this – NONE of which were investigated by the US army – which in itself is rather odd. General Patton had always carried a ‘little black book’ – with which he had said he was going to “Blow the hell out of everything” when he got back to the USA. At the point of Patton’s death that book mysteriously went missing.
It is widely believed that Patton was murdered as a result of a directive from C.I.C. agents, most of whom, although wearing American uniforms, were recent refugees from Germany and spoke fluent Yiddish. Working in the area apparently was a recently recruited Soviet agent, Henry Kissenger.
A BAD CAREER MOVE
Pentagon Chief Suggests ‘Israel Lobby’ Has Too Much Influence.
By Michael Geller, Los Angeles Times, Nov 13, 1974.
Washington General George S Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has publicly suggested that israel has too much influence in the US Congress – and that jews “own, you know, the banks in this country and the newspapers”.
“Now” Brown said, “In answer to the question of would we use force in the middle east, I don’t know. I hope not. We have no plan to. It is conceivable, I guess. It’s kind of almost as bad as the ‘Seven Days in May’ thing, but you can conjure up a situation where there is another oil embargo and people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer and they get tough minded enough to set down the jewish influence in this country and break that lobby.”
“It’s so strong you wouldn’t believe it now,” Brown went on. “We have the israelis coming to us for equipment. We say we can’t possibly get the Congress to support a program like that. They say, ‘Don’t worry about the Congress. We’ll take care of the Congress’.”
“Now this is somebody from another country!” Brown added, “But they can do it! They own, you know, the banks in this country, the newspapers, you just look at where the jewish money is in this country”.
The General was a highly regarded World War II bomber pilot. Despite 150 people being present when he said it – including many newsmen – it was only properly reported in a small local newspaper called the North Carolina Anvil – a so called alternative newspaper published in Durham.
We’re owned lock, stock and barrel..that’s why EVERYONE they don’t like…everyone who won’t bow down to them deserves praise and respect…Saddam should have resisted the American urging, and promises of supply, and not gone to war with Iran…Iraq deserved to have Kuwait returned to it and we shouldn’t have gotten involved…Damn the Syrians! They could have gotten him out of the country and he should be in Damascus now; giving interviews and telling the world to look at how the Americans destroyed and poisined his country,
Sorry to say, but I do not believe we in America are a sovereign nation as the word means and express… We are under a bad spell, undue influence which hijacked our will and choice to make decisions that are in the best interests of this country and people…. Too bad members of Congress and certain high officials of this country are past of this schemes to undermine the sovereignty of this nation… they are elected by us US citizens, they are paid by us, yet they do us all the harms for and on behalf of another nation.
The first step toward freedom and liberation is to reclaim back the Congress from the power and influence of the Jewish Lobby and Zionism…. and all the evil forces that undermine our liberties and freedom…. no matter who they are…. Communism failed on its own, so will Zionism, so will Talmudic-Salafis…. because these ideologies do not fit and do not serve America very well….
That’s right Sami, we should mind our own business and follow the foreign policy advised by Pres Washington in his Farewell Address and by Dr. Ron Paul…who probably won the SC primary..