The Pentagon And The Central Intelligence Agency Are In Charge By Jacob G. Hornberger!!!
(2018-09-07 at 14:09:43 )

The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency Are in Charge by Jacob G. Hornberger

Yesterday, President Trump, yielding to the overwhelming power of the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and National Security Agency, announced that he has decided to keep United States troops in Syria indefinitely, thereby abandoning his intention announced last March to instead bring United States troops in Syria home.

Of course, keeping the troops in Syria has been the position that the United States national security establishment has been demanding of President Trump since the beginning of his presidency, especially since that increases the risk of confrontation with Russia, the decades-old enemy and rival of the United States national-security establishment.

What business does the United States government have in Syria???

None. Just as it has no business in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam, Korea, Nicaragua, Grenada, Panama, and countless others.

But that is what life is like under a governmental structure in which the military-intelligence establishment is in control. It calls the shots.

Everyone else _ the president, the Congress, the judiciary, and the American people _ are expected to yield to its overwhelming power within the federal governmental structure and within American society.

It is worth recalling that the United States of American people in the late 1700s were ardently opposed to large, permanent military establishments. That is why the Constitution instead called into existence a type of government known as a limited-government republic, one whose powers are few and limited.

That all came to a screeching halt after World War II, when Americans began living under a totally different type of governmental structure, one that is known as a national-security state.

It is characterized by a massive, permanent, ever-growing military establishment, Central Intelligenc Agency, National Security Agency, and a national police force known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, all of whose powers together are vast and unlimited, including the power of this government to assassinate its own people.

Why did our American ancestors not favor a national-security state instead of a limited-government republic??

Because they knew that the military-intelligence component of the government would inevitably end up controlling and running the government and that the other parts of the government would inevitably yield to its overwhelming power.

More important, they knew that that a government founded on a massive military-intelligence foundation would inevitably end up destroying their freedom, privacy, and well-being.

A book I highly recommend is "National Security and Double Government" by Michael J. Glennon, professor of law at Tufts University. Glennon gets it, and he sets it forth perfectly in his book.

The national-security establishment - or what many today are calling the deep state - is in charge of the federal government.

As long as the other three branches understand that it is calling the shots, it permits the other three branches to maintain the appearance of being in control. But as Glennon shows so well, it is all just a façade. It is the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency who are ultimately calling the shots, like with respect to Syria.

In fact, the South Korean people are also discovering this phenomenon in their country. In their attempt to arrive at a peaceful and satisfactory resolution of the civil war that has besieged Korea since 1950, South Koreas President Moon Jae-in and North Koreas president Kim Jong-un have been negotiating.

In the process, they have agreed to work together to run a train between the two countries. The tracks were laid long ago and train stations along the way were built long ago. Now, it is just a logistical problem of getting the train running between the two nations.

But it is not going to happen.

Why not???

For the same reason that President Trump is not going to pull United States troops out of Syria.

Because the Pentagon said no to South Korea, just as it said no to President Trump.

Here is how yesterdays New York Times reported the matter: "Last month, American military commanders in Seoul stopped South Koreas plan to send a train across the inter-Korean border and run it on a North Korean railway, to test the rails condition."

What???

Who is in charge of the country - the South Korean government or the United States military??

The answer is obvious: The United States military is in charge, just as it is here in the United States.

Like President Trump, South Korean President Kim yielded to the orders and commands of his superiors in the United States national-security establishment. That is why that train between South and North Korea is not running.

Look at the extent to which the United States national-security establishment has extended its tentacles throughout the federal bureaucracy.

A general, not a civilian, is Secretary of Defense. A Central Intelligence Agency Director is made Secretary of State. A general is White House chief of staff. An Federal Bureau of Investigation director is appointed Special Counsel to target President Trump with removal for befriending Russia. Central Intelligence Agency assets in Congress, the mainstream press, and who knows where else. A large number of military and Central Intelligence Agency veterans running for Congress. A vast number of cities and states fearfully dependent on military bases and projects.

President Eisenhower warned the American people of the danger of converting the federal government to a national-security state, which he called the military-industrial complex. He said that this new, radically different governmental structure posed a grave threat to the freedoms and democratic processes of the American people. But he did nothing about it except issue a warning.

The only president to ever take on the national-security establishment has been President John F. Kennedy. He took them on directly, firmly, and unequivocally.

President Kennedy threw the gauntlet down on their militarist, imperialist, anti-communist, anti-Russia vision for the future of America.

The result was an all-out war between Kennedy and the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, a war that did not end up well for either President Kennedy or the American people. (See FFFs book "JFKs War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated" by Douglas Horne and also my current https://www.fff.org/freedom-in-motion/videos/series/the-national-security-states-assasination-of-jfk/ video series on the Jonh F. Kennedy assassination.)

While there are some who thought that President Trump was going to walk in the footsteps of President Kennedy and stand up to the national-security establishment, including bringing the troops home from the forever wars in which the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have embroiled our nation, alas, it is not to be, as reflected by President Trumps buckling under to the national-security establishment with respect to Syria and even moving in an anti-Russia direction with his imposition of economic sanctions on Russia.

Responding to the Pentagons decision to prevent South Korea from running its train into North Korea, North Koreas main state-run newspaper summed it up best. Pointing out that the United States was obstructing better relations between North and South Korea, the paper correctly described it as a "dim and twisted" attitude.

The paper continued: "The United States must realize that the more the inter-Korean relations improve, the better it will be for the United States"

The problem, however, is that it would not be better for the United States national-security establishment, which necessarily depends on perpetual crises to sustain its ever-growing, taxpayer-funded largess, including those crises that it itself incites.

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