“Americans are the New Master Race. Inferior Humans can be Bombed, Invaded, and Sanctioned.”
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At West Point Obama told us, to
the applause of West Point cadets, that “American exceptionalism” is a
doctrine that justifies whatever Washington does. If Washington violates
domestic and international law by torturing “detainees” or violates the
Nuremberg standard by invading countries that have undertaken no
hostile action against the US or its allies, “exceptionalism” is the
priest’s blessing that absolves Washington’s sins against law and
international norms. Washington’s crimes are transformed into
Washington’s affirmation of the rule of law. Here is Obama in his own
words:
“I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. But what makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law; it is our willingness to affirm them through our actions.”
Actions
indeed. In the 21st century “American exceptionalism” has destroyed
seven countries in whole or in part. Millions of people are dead,
maimed, and displaced, and all of this criminal destruction is evidence
of Washington’s reaffirmation of international norms and the rule of
law. Destruction and murder are merely collateral damage from
Washington’s affirmation of international norms.
“American
exceptionalism” also means that US presidents can lie through their
teeth and misrepresent those they choose to demonize. Listen to Obama’s
misrepresentations of the Putin and Assad governments:
“Russia’s aggression towards former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe . . . In Ukraine, Russia’s recent actions recall the days when Soviet tanks rolled into Eastern Europe .”Obama misrepresents Assad as “a dictator who bombs and starves his own people.”
Did any of the cadets in
Obama’s West Point audience wonder why, if Assad is a brutal dictator
who bombs and starves his own people, the Syrian people are supporting
Assad instead of the American-backed “liberation forces,” the
combination of imported jihadists and al Qaeda fighters who object to
Assad’s government because it is secular? The US military is taught to
respect its civilian commander-in-chief, but if West Point cadets
actually do obtain an education, it is remarkable that Obama’s audience
did not break out in laughter.
The
reference to Soviet tanks rolling into Europe is a reference to the
Hungarian (1956) and Czech (1968) “revolutions” when the Hungarian and
Czech communist leaders attempted to assert independence from Moscow.
It is doubtful that Washington’s response to countries attempting to
exit NATO would be any different. A few months ago Washington responded
to political talk in Germany and England about leaving the EU by
informing both governments that it was not in Washington’s interest for
them to depart from the European Union.
Obama used the image of Soviet tanks in order to color Russia with
the Soviet Threat, to mischaracterize Russia’s response to the Georgian
invasion of South Ossetia, and to misrepresent Crimea’s vote in favor of
reunification with Russia as “Russia’s invasion and annexation of
Crimea.” These lies are still a mainstay in the US media and in
Washington’s official propaganda.Obama’s speech is probably the most disingenuous ever given by a Western politician. We could have fun for hours with all the crimes that Washington commits but buries in rhetoric directed at others. Perhaps my favorite is Obama evoking a world in which “individuals aren’t slaughtered because of political belief.” I am sure Obama was thinking of this just world when he murdered without due process of law four American citizens “outside of areas of active hostilities.”
Another favorite is the way Obama flushed the US Constitution of its meaning. Obama said, with reference to bringing the Guantanamo prisoners to the US, that “American values and legal traditions don’t permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.” No, Obama, the US Constitution prevents the indefinite detention of US citizens by the US government anywhere on earth, especially within our borders.
By
detaining and by murdering US citizens without due process of law,
Obama has violated his oath of office and should be impeached. It was
only a short time ago that President Bill Clinton was impeached by the
US House of Representatives (the Senate saved him from conviction) for
lying about his sexual affair with a White House intern. How times
change. Today a president who violates his oath of office to protect the
Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic gets a free ride. The
Constitution has lost its power to protect citizens from the arbitrary
power of government. The US is the Constitution. Without the
Constitution the US ceases to exist, and the country becomes a tyranny,
both at home and abroad.Today the US is a tyranny cloaked in the garb of
“freedom and democracy.”
Instead of laughing our way
through Obama’s ridiculous speech to what apparently was a dumbed-down
West Point graduating class, lets pay attention to Obama’s bottom line:
“America must always lead on the world stage. . . . The military is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership.”
In
other words, Washington doesn’t use diplomacy. Washington uses
coercion. The favorite threat is: “Do as you are told or we will bomb
you into the Stone Age.” Obama’s speech is a justification of
Washington’s criminal actions on the grounds that Washington acts for
the exceptional Americans whose exceptionalism places them and, thereby,
their government above law and international norms. In this way of
thinking, only the failure to prevail constitutes failure.
Americans
are the new ubermensch, the new master race. Inferior humans can be
bombed, invaded, and sanctioned. Obama’s West Point speech asserts
American superiority over all others and Washington’s determination to
continue this superiority by preventing the rise of other powers. This
arrogant hubris was not enough for the Washington Post editorial board.
The newspaper’s editorial damned Obama for binding US power and limiting
its use to “a narrow set of core interest,” such as direct threats to
America.
The
American “liberal media” object that Obama’s claim of exceptionalism is
not broad enough for Washington’s purposes. Obama’s address, the
Washington Post wrote, bound “US power” and “offered scant comfort” to
those militarists who want to overthrow Syria, Iran, Russia, and China.
The
world should take note that the most militarily aggressive American
president in history is considered a wimp by the neoconized American
media. The media drives wars, and the American media, firmly allied
with the military/security complex, is driving the world to the final
war.
*Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and was noted as a co-founder of Reaganomics.[1] He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He has testified before congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of economic policy.
*Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and was noted as a co-founder of Reaganomics.[1] He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He has testified before congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of economic policy.
Jointly published with the Strategic Culture Foundation. http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/06/02/what-obama-told-us-at-west-point.html
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Since his candidacy I have always said he was a product of the system. The system needed a black president and Obama was ¨born¨.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήMany people fell victims to the hope and wind of change he was promising, only to wake up to the reality that democracy and human values no longer exist....