{"id":51657,"date":"2016-10-09T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51657"},"modified":"2016-10-09T15:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:19:22","slug":"are-western-leaders-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51657","title":{"rendered":"Are Western Leaders Insane?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Santa Rosa, CA<br \/>\nOctober 9, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s called projection in psychology: you blame the other<br \/>\nguy for doing the very evil that you are actually perpetrating.<\/p>\n<p>Most laymen just call it hypocrisy&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Western leaders are attempting to label Russia and Syria as<br \/>\nwar criminals. This amazing allegation comes after years of<br \/>\nUS\/NATO attacks against innocent countries in clear violation<br \/>\nof the UN Charter and the Nuremberg principles outlawing<br \/>\nwars of aggression.<\/p>\n<p>All of this while they armed, trained and funded the very fighters<br \/>\nthey are supposed to be against and while they remain silent at<br \/>\nthe continuing slaughter of Yemeni civilians by our Saudi &#8220;ally!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2016\/10\/08\/saudi-airstrikes-target-yemen-funeral-home-killing-155\/\">http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2016\/10\/08\/saudi-airstrikes-target-yemen-funeral-home-killing-155\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comically sad part of these charges is that it represents<br \/>\non the most childish level bad sportsmanship. Because Syria<br \/>\nis succeeding in defeating Western back anti-Assad forces with<br \/>\nthe help of Russia, we are accusing them of cheating while<br \/>\nthreatening to take our ball with us and leave the game.<\/p>\n<p>On the more serious level, this kind of hypocritical action has<br \/>\ncreated the high potential for direct confrontation between the<br \/>\nUS\/NATO and Russia leading to World War III.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatdoesitmean.com\/index2134.htm\">http:\/\/www.whatdoesitmean.com\/index2134.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One has to question the sanity of folks who keep raising the stakes<br \/>\nunnecessarily to divert attention from their massive corruption and<br \/>\nfailed foreign policy judgment.<\/p>\n<p>While the US election is mired in the slime of sexual politics, tax<br \/>\navoidance and other matters of little substance, the world moves<br \/>\never closer to further escalation of the unending wars currently<br \/>\nfestering in various parts of the globe.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51540\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51540<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Few express their disdain for these people more profoundly and<br \/>\neloquently than Paul Craig Roberts:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2016\/10\/05\/washington-leads-the-world-to-war-paul-craig-roberts\/\">http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2016\/10\/05\/washington-leads-the-world-to-war-paul-craig-roberts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With prospects for peace waning by the hour and the hope for a<br \/>\nnew president who might change things growing dimmer every day,<br \/>\nthe predicament of &#8220;we the people&#8221; who want to lead normal lives<br \/>\nhas never been greater.<\/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-51657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51657","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=51657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}