Politicians Live in a Parallel Universe by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2019-10-22 at 13:40:13 )

Politicians Live in a Parallel Universe by Jacob G. Hornberger

I am convinced of it. Politicians definitely live in a parallel universe, one that could easily be called Bizarro World.

Just read a recent op-ed in the Washington Post by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. It provides irrefutable proof that these people live in an alternative universe.

The title of Mr. McConnells article is "Withdrawing from Syria Is a Grave Mistake." As you can tell from the title, Mr. McConnell, like the good little Republican he is, is an interventionist .

That means he believes that the United States government should intervene in the affairs of other countries, like with coups, assassinations, invasions, bribery, extortion, sanctions, and embargoes, even while lamenting when foreign governments (e.g., Russia) intervene in the affairs of other countries in the same ways.

Okay, so Republicans are interventionists. That does not necessarily mean that they live in a parallel universe. It just means that they are seriously misguided. The proof that Mr. McConnell lives in an alternative universe comes through the analysis he employs to justify his interventionism.

Number 1. Mr. McConnell says that that interventionism is necessary to combat "Islamic terrorism."

What? Is he kidding? He obviously does not get it.

He still believes that the terrorists are targeting the United States of America because of their supposed hatred for Americas "freedom and values." He still does not understand that it is interventionism itself (which he ardently supports) that is the root cause of the anger and hatred that foreigners have toward the United States. Stop the interventionism and anti-American terrorism dissipates.

In Mr. McConnells universe, the "war on terrorism" goes on forever because, in his mind, the Muslims will hate the United States of America forever.

The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency will just have to continue inflicting death, suffering, and destruction on foreigners on a perpetual basis until the war is "won," that is, when all the Muslim terrorists are finally eradicated, which just might be never, especially since the interventionism produces a never-ending stream of anger and hatred toward the United States.

Number 2. Mr. McConnell says that the United States of Americas post-World World II regime has brought an "unprecedented era of peace" to the world.

Is he kidding?

Has he never heard of the Korean civil war in the early 1950s, where the United States government intervened and killed millions of North Koreans and sacrificed tens of thousands of United States of American soldiers for nothing in an illegal war, given that the president, the Pentagon, and the Central Intelligence Agency waged it without the constitutionally required United States congressional declaration of war?

Has he never heard of the Vietnam War, another illegal war that was waged without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war? In that war also, the United States national security establishment killed millions of Vietnamese and sacrificed tens of thousands of United States of American soldiers for nothing.

Has he never heard of the Central Intelligence Agencys invasion of Cuba, a country that has never attacked the United States?

Has he never heard of the United States governments decades-long brutal economic embargo against that nation, which has targeted the Cuban people with death and impoverishment for the sake of regime change?

Is he unaware of the fact that United States interventionism against Cuba brought the world to the edge of worldwide nuclear devastation?

Has he not heard of the many state-sponsored assassinations of innocent people by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon since World War II?

How he never heard of MK-ULTRA, the Central Intelligence Agencys secret drug-experimentation program that deliberately murdered innocent people?

Has he never heard that the Central Intelligence Agency secretly employed Nazi war criminals to help the CIA with its operations?

Has he never heard of Operation Northwoods?

Has he never heard of the many regime-change operations, such as in Chile, Guatemala , Libya, and, yes, Syria, which have not only destroyed democratic and non-democratic regimes alike but also subjected millions of innocent people to death, suffering, impoverishment, rape, indefinite detention, torture, execution, or chaos?

Has he never heard of the United States governments undeclared intervention in the Persian Gulf War, which brought about the massacre of thousands of Iraqis?

Or the Pentagons intentional destruction of Iraqs water and sewage treatment plants with the aim of killing people through infections and malnutrition?

Or the 11 years of brutal sanctions against the Iraqi people, which killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children?

Or United Nations Ambassador Madeline Albrights infamous declaration that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the sanctions, while hard, were "worth it."

Has he never heard of President George W. Bushs undeclared war of aggression against Iraq, which violated the principles set forth at Nuremberg as well as the United States Constitution, which succeeded in killing hundreds of thousands of more Iraqis as well as destroying the entire country?

Or the undeclared war against Afghanistan, which has killed hundreds of thousands of more people, 99 percent of whom had nothing to do with the 9-11-01 attacks?

Number 3. Mr. McConnell says that the United States of American had a "comforting blanket of isolationism in the 1940s." Is he kidding?

How can he not know about President Roosevelts interventionist machinations to embroil the United States in World War II?

How could he not know about FDRs Lend-Lease program with England, his military assistance to British forces, his oil embargo on Japan, his freezing of Japanese assets in the United States, and the humiliating dictates he issued to Japan, all with the aim of provoking Germany and Japan to attack and kill United States troops, so that he could manipulate the United States of American people into having to enter World War II?

How can he not know that that war, which is so beloved to Republicans (and Democrats), delivered Eastern Europe and East Germany into the hands of the Soviet Reds, which was then used to justify the Cold War and the anti-communist crusade (and, later, the anti-Russia crusade), and the conversion of the federal government from a limited-government republic to a national-security state, which is a totalitarian form of governmental structure?

How can Mr. McConnell not see such things?

There can be only one explanation.

Mr. McConnell is, in fact, living in a parallel universe, one called Bizarro World?

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!