two pcr articles in a row and this one is clearly summed up in the title right below this;
Hurricanes Give Americans Taste of Disaster Washington’s Wars Bring to Others
Paul Craig Roberts
Florida residents from the eastern part of Panama City Beach to
Apalachicola now know what a war zone is like. 750,000 people are
without power and without water. Thousands of homes and commercial
structures no longer exist. Mexico Beach has been more or less wiped
off the face of the earth. Many areas are still inaccessible. Many
people are still trapped in place because of debris and downed trees
across roads.
Families searching for missing family members are at times obstructed
by police trying to keep looters and gawkers out of the area and trying
to save what little traffic capacity there is for emergency and repair
crews. It is difficult to image people so lacking in humanity that they
go to loot what little remains of the property of such damaged people.
But perhaps it is not difficult to image such people. Perhaps such
people have been running US foreign policy since the Clinton regime. If
you look at these photos of the damage:
https://weather.com/safety/hurricane/news/2018-10-09-hurricane-michael-photos,
you will have an idea of the damage “our” government acting in “our”
name has inflicted on eight countries since the Clinton regime: Serbia,
Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and the ongoing
atrocity in Yemen. Anyone looking at the devastation of the Florida
panhandle from Panama City to Apalachicola could think they are looking
at the work of Dick Cheney and his Zionist neocon warmongers that
devastated the Middle East and North Africa.
Americans are a curious people. They sent large sums of money to
parents whose children were allegedly killed in school shootings, the
reality of which many challenge, and they sent large sums of money to
support Christine Blasey Ford for accusing Kavanagh of attempted rape
despite her inability to substantiate her charge. Will the compassion
and empathy that responds to ideological crimes such as those ascribed
to “white heterosexual victimizers,” gun owners, and illegal immigration
opponents also respond to the victims of Hurricane Michael and US
foreign policy?
Why is it that the liberal-progressive-left can get so upset about an
alleged attempted rape 30 or 40 years ago but accept without protest
Washington’s destruction of the lives, prospects, and infrastructure of
millions of peoples in eight countries? All of the immigrants about
which Trump complains are people fleeing from America’s wars on their
countries. If America and Europe do not want refugees, why do they
engage in wars that produce refugees?
Is this simple question beyond the intelligence of Western politicians?
Are Americans aware that the latest national defense posture
statement reaffirms the neoconservative priority that America prevail
over the world? Do Americans understand that Washington considers
Russia and China to be threats simply because they have independent
foreign and economic polcies? Do Americans understand that American
hegemony means that no country is permitted to be sovereign?
No, of course, they don’t. The presstitute media doesn’t tell them.
Between the flag-wavers and the Democratic Party’s Identity Politics
there is massive ignorance. A war with Russia and China is national
suicide. A war with Iran is regional suicide. We need a government that
understands this.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/10/15/hurricanes-give-americans-taste-of-disaster-washingtons-wars-bring-to-others/
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