Het volgende artikel van ICH handelt over de steun van de VS burgers voor het leger. Joachim Hagopian legt uit, waar de VS bevolking zich achter schaart: illegale oorlogen, terroristische aanslagen, massamoord enz. enz. Om de VS tegen je te krijgen als land, is m aar weinig nodig, zo betoogt Hagopian, die verder wijst op de inmenging in binnenlandse politiek door de VS, of de sancties en boycots, die de VS instelt, als een (democratisch gekozen) regime niet naar de pijpen van de VS danst (zie o.a. Chili, Oekraïne en Syrië)……
Intussen benemen zich dagelijks 22 VS veteranen het leven, dit vanwege de ‘geweldige zorg’ die zij ontvangen van een natie, die achter haar troepen staat………..
Beste mensen, het is een aardige lap tekst, met veel links, maar uitermate de moeite waard, als u denkt dat u alles wel weet, zal u net als ikzelf vreemd opkijken, al geef ik toe dat ik eigenlijk nergens meer van sta te ‘kijken’, om dat woord nog maar eens te gebruiken…. Onder het bericht kan u klikken voor een vertaling, al neemt dat enige tijd in beslag.
It’s
Time to Stop “Supporting Our Troops”
By
Joachim Hagopian
December
13, 2015 “Information
Clearing House”
– With the 115 year old tradition of the
annual Army-Navy football classic on
Saturday, the so called “America’s game” and “rivalry for the
ages” is now once again upon us. This occasion never fails to pay
reverent homage to America’s so called “cream of the crop”
elitist military
academies and
always from the president to celebrities Americans give tribute to
our armed forces. At this time we hear that familiar patriotic mantra
“support our troops” mindlessly repeated. So it seems appropriate
now to take a cold hard look to examine what it actually means to
“support our troops.”
As
both a West Point graduate and critic
of the American Empire,
to me the “support
our troops”
sentiment
has long outworn its propagandized welcome. US Empire has been using
that contrite expression to brainwash Americans and justify its wars
and violence for far too long. It sprang up during this last decade’s
protracted war losses in Iraq and Afghanistan. Never was it ever
heard during the Vietnam
War when
our combat veterans returned home feeling defeated and suffering
from untreated PTSD symptoms, shunned by a nation that had
bitterly turned against them and their war, particularly by their own
peer group. Fast forward to four decades and three war defeats
later, and our government is still sending Americans off to
fight and die inAfghanistan (9800
currently) and Iraq (3500
with another 100 on the way), and now in Syria (50
just proposed with more on the way while war-hawk Bobbsy twins McCain
and Graham are calling for 20,000 more troops in Syria). But this
century’s wars we keep hearing red, white and blue, flag waving
Americans urging us to “support our troops.”
Over
the long haul, supporting our troops has resulted in the United
States being the most warring, aggressive nation on earth, bar none.
As we’re about to enter 2016, our ultraviolent country will be
killing other human beings somewhere on this planet for 223 out of
the last 240 total years the US has been in existence. That’s 93%
of our time as
a nation-turned-Empire we’ve been destroying human life. That’s
certainly nothing to be proud of. Yet it’s “our troops” who’ve
been the murdering culprit. No compassionate, rational person could
possibly place blindly obedient support behind such rampantly wanton
disregard and contempt for fellow human life.
Another
fact that Americans can’t be proud of is knowing that the most
warring nation on earth just since World War II alone has murdered up
to 30
million people around
the globe with an estimated 90%
of them being civilians.
Having initiated 201 out of the total of 240 armed conflicts
from the end of WWII to 2001, it then follows that between those
years the US Empire of Chaos and Destruction has murdered 27 million
innocent people whose lives have tragically been cut short through no
fault of their own for simply living in the wrong place at the wrong
time belonging to the wrong ethnic nationality targeted by America’s
full spectrum dominance and global superpower hegemony. And that was
before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And
what does it take to be targeted
as a US foreign enemy? Any country whose leaders choose to
support their own citizens’ well-being, independence and quality of
life over US Empire’s fascist transnational corporate interests is
attacked economically through sanctions and embargos, politically
through propaganda lies and threats, or militarily though unnatural
disasters/weather warfare, occupied invasions involving
long term bloody conflict or acts
of terrorism, coups and assassinations. Just ask Cuba,
Venezuela, Haiti, Panama, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen,
Somalia, Sudan, Congo North Korea, Donbas, Palestine or Russia just
to name more than a dozen.
People
around the world have been victimized for well over a century by
American Empire’s willful rape and pillage of their lands in the
name of stolen natural resources and inhumane forced slave labor, and
those are the nations whose puppet dictators willingly succumbed and
acquiesced to US demands and pressures. In fact in the tradition of
the British Empire, North America’s entire domestic and foreign
history has been made of genocidal
killing,
enslaving, stealing and subjugating other darker-skinned races into
death and submission. Given this context with the bigger picture
perspective, “supporting our troops” is really supporting mass
murder around the world. So bearing that sobering, grim reality in
mind, it’s time for Americans to cease and desist with their
jingoistic rah-rah that only adds insult to injury to the rest of the
victimized world.
In
2008 the US spent more
money every 5 seconds to wage an immoral, unlawful war in Iraq than
the average working American earned all year long. 80% of America’s
taxes are earmarked towards funding the annual Pentagon budget to
wage war around the world. When that kind of war investment
misappropriating US citizenry’s hard-earned tax dollars places such
lopsided priority over the well-being of its own people, with over a
decade of wearing
down an overextended military forced
into fighting three, four and even five consecutive combat tours on
two simultaneous warfronts, it also overburdened and decimated
America’s middle class.
And now for the first time in nearly a half century, the US
middle class is no longer a majority in
the United States. A large chunk of it died when sinking into an
expanding lower class of impoverished, poverty-stricken
Americans barely
making ends meet.
Half the respondents in a recent survey say they either break even or
make less than their cost of living
expenses.
As anoligarchy the
US federal government no longer acts in the best interests of its
citizens.
But
considering the costs of war to victim nations where since 2003 the
US has killed over a million people in Iraq alone, this figure
released from a
study earlier this year is
admittedly a conservative estimate. The study concludes that up to
two million in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have been killed by
America’s wars. These colossal crimes against humanity constitute
supporting the US federal government as well as its military troops a
moral crime. America’s complete and utter destruction of the
world’s second and third largest oil producers in Iraq and Libya,
turning them into failed states because their one time US allied
leaders moved away from the US
petrodollar is
unconscionable, yet that’s the tragic outcome of blindly supporting
our troops. More than any other single country, the US today is
responsible for allowing ISIS tomake
billions in profit
from stolen oil from
Iraq and Syria financing the biggest terrorist group on the planet.
And US partners-in-crime Turkey and Israel are
the two biggest buyers of terrorist oil. So in effect supporting our
troops is also supporting both crimes against humanity as well as
worldwide terrorism.
Supporting
our troops has contributed to the world becoming far more
armed and dangerous today than
at any prior time in our recorded human history. Our nation is also
responsible forspearheading
the biggest arms race in
history where it’s not just the US Empire spending so many billions
on weapons of mass destruction but due to Empire aggression it has
forced Russia and China to answer by also significantly increasing
their military spending. A dozen years ago the US
defense budget nearly equaled the
rest of the world combined. But during this century’s two
protracted US wars plus smaller secret ones around the world,
America’s military expenditures have soared to $682
billion in 2012 from
$417.4 in 2003. The exponential rise of American aggression likewise
has pressured the unilaterally declared US enemies Russia and China
to significantly increase their military spending as well. The US has
gone from spending near half (46%) of the world’s military amount
in 2003 to just 35%
in 2014 due
to Russia and China dramatically expanding their military budgets. In
fact following America’s lead, both the world’s annual arms sales
as well as its military budgets have exponentially skyrocketed
amongst dozens of countries all seemingly gearing up for “the big
one.” Not surprisingly, at 31% the US
is also the biggest arms dealer on
the planet followed by Russia’s 27% with China accounting for 5%
during the period from 2010-2014 that totaled a 16% increase from
arms sold from 2005-2009.
Events
and developments have escalated tensions and confrontations between
the US and Russia and China in recent weeks. With the US backing NATO
member Turkey
recklessly shootingdown
a Russian fighter jet resulting in a Russian rescue helicopter also
brought down last month, in addition to the probable ISIS bomb taking
down the Russian
airliner killing
all 224 onboard a month and a half ago, the US
Navy destroyer skirting
inside the twelve nautical mile range of built up Chinese islands in
the South China Sea, the United States and the West appear to be
baiting Putin and the East into World
War III.
And with nuclear powers going directly head-to-head in Syria, Ukraine
and Asia, self-annihilation of the human race becomes a very real and
grave risk culminating after a quarter century of US Empire
belligerently operating as the sole global superpower and “global
village” bully.
Out
of nearly 200 countries no other nation on earth has more than a few
military bases outside its own country except the United States. In
contrast to the rest of the world, the US sends 1.5
million military occupiers on active duty to over
a thousand military installations on
every continent throughout the globe. Just this week the Pentagon
announced a worldwide
expansion of military bases without
specifying a total number under the auspices of secrecy. West Africa,
East Africa and Afghanistan are slotted for full scale bases.
Meanwhile US Special Forces that covertly operate by stealth surprise
often at night in guerilla-type, fast strike operations are busily
secretly committing acts of terror in over 135
nations globally,
that’s about 75% of the all world’s nations.
Let’s
look at the way our federal government supports our troops. After
sending over 6800
US soldiers (along
with 7000 civilian contractors) to their early graves fighting in
America’s two longest running wars in the nation’s history,
leaving one million wounded personnel filing VA claims ranging from
life threatening physical injuries to emotionally crippling PTSD
traumas and scars, the feds have betrayed our patriots serving our
country by treasonously targeting all returning combat veterans as
the biggest
enemy threat on
American soil. Indeed veterans, gun owners and dissidents are
deemed to pose a greater danger than even the feds’ own
created terrorist monster ISIS that Obama’s open border policy
facilitates easy access to establishing terrorist cells inside
America.
Those
veterans seeking help are customarily snowed under by lethal
Big Pharma poison,
fast becoming addicted and even more unstable. Many are haplessly
waiting and dying on lists for medical services that often don’t
come soon enough. Exposing forty veterans who died awaiting services
on invisible lists at the Phoenix VA hospital alone triggered a
major scandal
last year.
For several years running on average twenty-two
veterans have been killing themselves each
and every day in the United States. The overloaded Veterans
Administration has been caught grossly ill-prepared to adequately
deal with the sheer enormity of the problem with so many severely
damaged ex-soldiers in dire need of long term assistance and care.
One study predicts that up to nearly a half
million veterans
will end up with criminal cases in the court system.
With
nearly half (44%)
of Congress millionaires and so few (19%)
ever serving in uniform now, the DC warmongers are ever-at-the-ready
to send young men and women from America’s lower class into harm’s
way fighting Obama’s dirty little secret wars in multiple combat
zones around the world that the public never even hears about. Yet
you’ll see next to none of their own sons or daughters fighting in
some far off war. The
way our own government has used, abused and not supported our troops
is despicable.
And
then a sizeable percentage of those Americans who are so vocal in
their claims of “supporting
our troops,”
are too frequently disingenuous. Often hypocrites merely mouth the
same banal platitudes year after year from their ivory-towered,
pretend world, living so far removed and disaffected from actual war
conditions or even knowing anyone who wears a military uniform. Never
fathoming the tragic insanity or bloody lifelong consequences that US
wars ravage on millions worldwide, permanently damaging all involved,
Americans who haven’t a clue will glibly pay lip service, “We owe
so much to our soldiers who fight to keep us safe and free.” What
bubble, planet or century are they living on or in?
Since
the inside coup of 9/11 was perpetrated, US citizens have become the
murderous neocons’ war on terror victims as well, terrorized by
their own international crime cabal government and militarized police
state that’s effectively stolen their freedom and civil liberties
while the guilty treasonously continue violating sworn oaths to
uphold and protect both the Constitution and American people. Yet too
many brainwashed, dumbed down and clueless in America don’t seem to
get it. Maybe it’s because they’re bombarded 24/7 by MSM
lies and disinformation that
never expose the ugliness of war as it really is. The ruling elite
controls all aspects of mass media, engaging in widespread censorship
of films, television and video games where violence
and war are only glorified.
Military, CIA and FBI liaisons control every aspect of what comes out
of Hollywood these days.
But
over four decades of a volunteer
army comprised
of less than half of one percent of the total US population also
contributes greatly to the widening disconnect between the 99+%
civilian population and the less than 1% Americans in uniform. The
atrocities and horror that the imperialistic Empire’s killing
machine has inflicted on Third World nations half a world away may as
well be billions of miles away on another planet or galaxy. Out of
sight, out of mind goes many civilians’ insulated, tunnel version
reality.
Those
currently in uniform need to be reminded that they have a sworn duty
to protect America from domestic and foreign enemies. As citizens who
no longer live in a democratic republic but now a totalitarian police
state, they need to recognize that their federal government has
adiabolical
agenda to
enslave and eliminate fellow Americans. Instead of criminalizing
dissent,
the real domestic enemy has become the federal government and all
Americans need to accept this tragic development. Therefore, both
those already in uniform as well as those ready to sign up and allow
themselves to become their crime cabal’s latest cannon fodder in
the elite’s wars need to stand up and be counted as patriots loyal
to their nation and
fellow citizens rather than adhere to blind obedience to their
psychopathic masters. It’s no longer okay to support the troops
when they’re misdirected into committing treason against their own
citizenry. Military personnel need to take responsibility for their
actions and do what’s right by both their Constitution as well as
humanity.
2015
has been a tumultuous year when by globalist
design terrorism
has expanded to all corners of the earth, spreading death, war and
destruction in its wake. Meanwhile, feeling its economic prowess
slipping away in the face of the emerging
power of Eastern rivals China
and Russia, the United States government has already conceded losing
its war to retain the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
The DC crime syndicate knows its days in power are numbered. Since
the psychopaths ruling the planet are unwilling to relinquish their
ruthless power of absolute control, they realize that using their
Manchurian puppet president and his overstretched US Empire to
recklessly do their dirty planetary bidding to successfully destroy
the world’s most powerful nation sending Empire into rapid freefall
decline on the way to one world government can only be achieved
by igniting
World War III against
the Eastern powers just as their Ponzi-rigged, house of cards,
debt-based global economy implodes on itself. So this late in the
power elite’s endgame when we’re still hearing “support the
troops,” in actuality it’s time to fight for our lives in support
of humanity’s struggle for survival and good ultimately triumphing
over evil.
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Joachim
Hagopian is a
West Point graduate and former US Army officer. He has written a
manuscript based on his unique military experience
entitled “Don’t
Let The Bastards Getcha Down.” It
examines and focuses on US international relations, leadership
and national security issues. After the military, Joachim earned
a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a
licensed therapist in the mental health field for more than a
quarter century. He now concentrates on his writing and has a
blog site at http://empireexposed.blogspot.co.id/.
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