The Asinine Argument: They Hate us for Our Freedom

Former President Bush insulted our intelligence when he told us we were attacked by terrorists because of our freedom, and most major media, being official parrots for the government, merely repeated the Presidents line. Never would they dare ask or question his asinine reasoning, but many folks bought into the utter nonsense and it it’s still repeated today, but rarely challenged by mainstream media. 

Mainstream media refused to focus on the content on the note written by the Boston Marathon bomber while in hiding, shortly before being captured. It said “you stop killing our people and we will stop killing yours”; pretty simple. This week a US drone in Afghanistan took out 34 people attending a funeral; surely the relatives of those dead now “hate” us, but not because of our freedom, and surely the relatives of all the dead in 8 wedding parties that we took out, also hate us, but not for our freedom. It was General McChrystal who said, for every innocent we kill, we create 10 enemies. So by slaughtering wedding parties and funerals we are exponentially creating new enemies every day. One has to wonder if that is by design. The irrational and insane, but perhaps intended decisions of US foreign policy, can be seen and illustrated in the microcosmic example of our relationship with Egypt, which by the way, is not one of the 14 nations we have bombed since 9/11. That said, meet one of our best friends, Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who overthrew a democratically elected leader named Morsi. Below is a partial list of his brutality.

* July 8, 2013: Egyptian security forces shoot 53 Morsi supporters in front of the building of the Republican Guard in Cairo.

* August 14, 2013: The army and police storm two camps of protestors and kill more than 1,000 people, among them many women and children. Humans Rights Watch identifies the “massacre” as the “worst incident of illegal mass killing in the modern history of Egypt.”

* January 25, 2014: On the third anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution, military and security forces kill more than 100 opponents of the regime during demonstrations.

* March 24, 2014: On a single day of hearings in the largest mass trial in Egyptian history, 529 people are sentenced to death.

* April 28, 2014: In another mass trial, 683 more people are sentenced to death in less than 15 minutes.

* May 15, 2015: Morsi himself and more than 100 other co-defendants are sentenced to death.

* May 16, 2015: Six of those convicted are hanged. Amnesty International strongly condemns the trial and points out that the confessions of the accused were extracted under torture.

That is just a small part of al-Sisi’s reign of terror. Anyone opposing his regime in Egypt who is not killed can expect to be arrested and tortured. According to Amnesty International, in the last two years 41,000 people have disappeared into the country’s prisons. Protests and strikes are prohibited by law. Independent media is suppressed, and parties and organizations that criticize the regime are forbidden, but he is our guy. How do you think that sits with the Egyptian in the street?

This dictator is our man, and is supported by the US government who gives him billions worth of military weapons so he can insure and maintain his ruthless oppression of the Egyptian people. People don’t hate us because we are free, they hate us for many legitimate reasons, like the casual manner in which we kill innocents and the willingness to support and arm countless ruthless dictators who kill innocents daily.

Alice and the Mad Hatter Gang Making Foreign Policy, will get you Killed.

Unless Americans start paying attention to foreign policy and the insane decisions being made, we will all be dead. First a quick study of the totally irrational situation the decision makers have gotten us into, then a look at how your life is being risked by idiots and fools. 

A quick summary of America’s current position in the Middle East is simple to understand and easy to follow.  Try this. We are allied with our declared enemy Iran, against the Islamic State, which grew from the chaos created by our earlier decision to invade Iraq, which was based on lies.  We are trying to overthrow Assad in Syria, which has us fighting side-by-side with jihadist groups financed by Saudi Arabia, whom we are supporting against the Houthis in Yemen, the bitter rivals of Al-Qaeda -- the perpetrators of 9/11. Meanwhile, our best friend Israel, is siding with Al-Qaeda in Syria, and our other best friend Turkey, is helping ISIS. All makes perfect sense doesn’t it? 

Iraq is an absolute disaster which is due to the 25 year US policy of brutal sanctions from 1990 - 2003 which killed about one million innocent people. Sanctions were followed by a US invasion and bombings which continue to the present day. The country has descended into a living hell so the US just decided what Iraq needs is more weapons.  We are sending more weapons to Iraq which are to be used against the weapons that we previously sent to Iraq. Makes perfect sense huh??

Think that’s bad, then think of all the additional “bad guys” and people that are currently on our hit list. In addition to fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS while trying to overthrow Assad in Syria, at the same time we keep an eye on Hamas and Hezbollah, both Israel’s enemies, but what’s a couple of more wars for us. Lest we forget the 13 year ongoing war in Afghanistan which started supposedly to get the supporters of bin Laden, but now has become a crusade to defeat the Taliban, a large group who is trying to overthrow a puppet US government in Afghanistan. We are embroiled in a long bloody Civil War which has been ongoing for years in Afghanistan. While we are bombing in Iraq, ISIS is all over the Middle East, Assad is still in Syria, the Taliban are still effectively resisting in Afghanistan, but the deciders say, we must also go after Boko Harem in Nigeria and the Houthis in Yemen who are being attacked by our other best friend Saudi Arabia, even though the Houthis are historically bitter enemies with Al-Qaeda. So in helping Saudi Arabia against the Houthis, we are aiding Al-Qaeda in Yemen.  Understand?? 

All this is accompanied by an agreement this past week to give Israel an additional 2 billion dollars’ worth of weapons to be used, I guess, against either the Palestinians once again in the near future, or perhaps Iran, which Israel has been begging the US to attack.

We support the current Egyptian dictator with 1.3 billion worth of weapons, and we supported the last Egyptian dictator Mubarak, for 30 years. He was finally overthrown, followed by a democratic election, in which a Mr. Morsi was elected. He, Morsi, was overthrown by another dictator, whom we now support. The current dictator just sentenced the formerly democratically elected leader, Mr Morsi to death. But this dictator is our guy, so we give him weapons and military supplies to remain in power, and look the other when a democratically elected leader is given a death sentence. Understand??

All this death and destruction was unleashed by 9/11. We were lied to by the neocons, and the public bought into the lies hook line and sinker, aided by a complicit press who just parroted the official government line about the non-existent WMD’s in Iraq; and Iraq was also falsely blamed for 9/11. Those lies caused millions of deaths, yes millions, by US military attacks all over the globe since 9/11.

OK things are getting a bit confusing here, so how about a quick “Jeopardy question” to help with the confusion.  How many nations has the US bombed since 9/11??   Here is a hint, because I know it is easy to lose count.  Fourteen!!

All these have been, relatively speaking, little wars, but the stage is currently being set by Alice and the Mad Hatter gang for two giant wars. The decision makers are backing Russia and China into a corner, from which there is no escape.  Both Russia and China are being provoked by the US in their own back yards. NATO just completed “War games” 300 yards from the Russian border. How is that for provocation, or stupidity? The provocation of Russia is ongoing, because we accuse them of “interfering” with their next door neighbor, Ukraine; but it was we, led by Alice gang member Victoria Nuland who orchestrated an overthrow of a democratically elected pro-Russian leader of the Ukraine. It was Ms Nuland who so eloquently said: “F___ the EU”, when they would not move fast enough to support her overthrow. Meanwhile we send troops to all the Balkans states, a stone’s throw from Russia, and we push to establish missile bases surrounding Russia, but the Russians, we are told, are completely at fault for their “interference’ in the next door neighbor’s affairs. Understand??

We have troops 5000 miles from home in Russia’s back yard and surround it with missiles. You might remember or have read about the Cuban Missile Crises, an event that almost led to the first full scale nuclear war when Russia tried to install missiles 100 miles from Florida. Hmmm!

Now, Alice and the Mad Hatter gang say China is starting to interfere and bother us, so we are provoking China. Where are they “interfering” you ask?  Why the South China Sea! Get it, the South “China” Sea! So last week we sent spy planes into what China considers its territory, islands in the South China Sea, and were warned repeatedly by China to get out or else. It almost came to blows.  China called the US intrusion “provocative” and asked the US to try to remain “rational”. Unfortunately the US decision makers are not “rational”, they are insane, and while fighting wars all over the globe they are now pushing Russia and China into a corner, and we all know what happens when someone is “cornered”.

Millions will die unless you take in interest in these idiots, fools, and knaves.   It’s your life here. Pay attention. It is out of control. It is no surprise that in a world poll of people in 65 nations, the US was voted the greatest threat to World Peace.