{"id":46713,"date":"2016-08-21T15:59:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T19:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46713"},"modified":"2016-08-21T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T19:59:51","slug":"americas-willing-executioners-paul-craig-roberts-and-the-complicit-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46713","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Willing Executioners: Paul Craig Roberts and the Complicit Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Custer, WA<br \/>\nAugust 21, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>By its continuing failure to relentlessly oppose America&#8217;s<br \/>\nunending wars, the left is fully complicit in the evils associated<br \/>\nwith our imperial wars and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>For as long as I can remember, I have been embarrassed by<br \/>\nthose who celebrate themselves as liberals, progressives and of<br \/>\n&#8220;the left!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is primarily because of the failure of these left-leaning people<br \/>\nto be sufficiently anti-war in the face of America&#8217;s unending imperialism<br \/>\nand wars of aggression.<\/p>\n<p>These &#8220;progressives&#8221; seem comfortable with saving the environment,<br \/>\nendangered animals and gays along with providing free health care and<br \/>\neducation for the disadvantaged while their country bombs nation<br \/>\nafter nation into oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>This apparent trade-off between the welfare state left and the warfare<br \/>\nstate right has led to the creation of a quasi-police state at home and<br \/>\nan over-reaching imperium abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Ike&#8217;s warning to stop the military-industrial complex, the<br \/>\nnational security state has emerged triumphant in the modern era.<br \/>\nThis corruption\u00a0is so vast that the Pentagon cannot account for over<br \/>\n$6.5 Trillion in its budget; $6.5 Trillion&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;in one year!<\/p>\n<p>Few express this disgust with the left better than Paul Craig Roberts:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=141702\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=141702<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roberts credentials as an articulate voice of opposition to Pax<br \/>\nAmericana are impeccable. This former Wall Street Journal editor and<br \/>\nhigh-level Treasury official who is often called &#8220;the Father of Reagonomics&#8221;<br \/>\nhas been as clear as anyone of any political persuasion in critiquing<br \/>\nthe excesses of our failed foreign policy and wasteful rush to war.<\/p>\n<p>How ironic that this creature of the right should bemoan the<br \/>\ndisappearance of the anti-war left. But how fitting are his comments<br \/>\nthat their\u00a0absence both undermines their credibility and provides cover<br \/>\nfor their hawkish leaders like Obama and the Clintons who abuse<br \/>\ntheir war making powers the same way the Bush clan did.<\/p>\n<p>We have reached a very ugly moment where this co-option and<br \/>\nsilence in the face of endless wars of aggression can only be<br \/>\ndescribed as complicity by the left in America&#8217;s war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The candidacy of &#8220;socialist&#8221; Bernie Sanders was totally consistent<br \/>\nwith what Robert&#8217;s is saying: here was a man who postured as a<br \/>\nchampion of left causes and yet refused to be an advocate of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders was in a position to transform the political landscape in<br \/>\n2016 had he gone after Hillary Clinton as an unadulterated Neocon<br \/>\nwho as First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State engaged in<br \/>\nnumerous war-making adventures&#8212;all based on lies and all ending<br \/>\nin massive failure!<\/p>\n<p>Yet he gave her a pass on that, on her e-mail scandal which was<br \/>\ndirectly linked to national security matters and her misuse of her<br \/>\noffice to the benefit of the Clinton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders further destroyed his credibility by endorsing Hillary for the<br \/>\npresidency despite convincing and compelling evidence that she stole<br \/>\nthe nomination from him&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;all because of the evil Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Ridiculous bull-crap!! In another strange development of this election,<br \/>\nit is Trump who emerges as the &#8220;peace&#8221; candidate because of his<br \/>\nwillingness to avoid WWIII by cooperating with Russia and Putin.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45320.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45320.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Hillary wins, the left will be complicit in perpetuating this incredibly<br \/>\nnasty state of affairs. As Roberts states clearly, their voice is badly<br \/>\nneeded to prevent the extinction of life we are threatened with today.<\/p>\n<p>As the Swedish doctors cited above write in their essay, the risk<br \/>\nof nuclear war has never been greater as the US and NATO<br \/>\nmenace Russia and China as part of Cold War II.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the protest from the anti-war left? Where is the challenge<br \/>\nfrom the backers of Sanders? How can anyone vote for someone<br \/>\nas irresponsible as Hillary Clinton who describes Putin as the &#8220;new<br \/>\nHitler&#8221; for defending Russia&#8217;s interest in Ukraine after her friend<br \/>\nVictoria Nuland spent $5 billion to overthrow it for the West?<\/p>\n<p>When has a Democrat even mentioned Obama&#8217;s signing the nuke<br \/>\nmodernization bill that allocates a TRILLION dollars to upgrade<br \/>\nour nuclear arsenal?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the left remains silent in all of this except for a few like Tulsi<br \/>\nGabbard, the women of Code Pink, Cynthia McKinney and Jill Stein.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=24757\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=24757<\/a><\/p>\n<p>History well may portray these complicit lefties as &#8220;America&#8217;s willing executioners&#8221; should things deteriorate into the savagery of global war<br \/>\nthat may follow in the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/08\/19\/pentagon-cant-account-for-6-5-trillion-of-taxpayer-money-ig-report\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/08\/19\/pentagon-cant-account-for-6-5-trillion-of-taxpayer-money-ig-report\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}