{"id":14638,"date":"2015-11-21T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14638"},"modified":"2015-11-21T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T15:26:11","slug":"the-left-and-right-must-stop-the-establishments-perpetual-war-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14638","title":{"rendered":"The Left and Right Must Stop the Establishment\u2019s Perpetual War Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Left and Right Must Stop the Establishment\u2019s Perpetual War Machine<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In the aftermath of the 9\/11 attacks, some of us tried to raise questions of U.S. foreign policy. I got my\u00a0mic cut on O\u2019Reilly\u2019s show<\/a>. Others got far worse \u2014 a friend basically felt he had to move out of his neighborhood he was so reviled for criticizing the U.S.\u2019s militarism. Oh, yeah, and hundreds of thousands of people got killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The root causes of the 9\/11 attacks were hardly discussed \u2014 unless it was people deriding Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell for blaming gay folks.<\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s no meaningful peace movement. Partly as a result of that, we\u2019re not having a serious discussion we should be about foreign policy after the Paris attacks: How U.S. \u2014 and Western \u2014 foreign policy manifests hatred and all that brings.<\/p>\n

One might have thought that would be possible \u2014 the target of this attack was not the U.S., though it could be the next target. But that should give us some breathing room as well as a measure of urgency to think things through.<\/p>\n

The major policy debate now is about Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n

This is part of a political pattern: The two party establishment agrees on a series of issues and those issues are largely ignored. (Perpetual war.)<\/p>\n

Then, there\u2019s something they disagree on and that\u2019s vociferously debated. (Refugees.)<\/p>\n

Problem is, sometimes what they agree on (perpetual war) is what causes the other issue (refugees).<\/p>\n

Right now, both the Democratic and Republican establishments both agree on a course of perpetual war. There\u2019s virtually no remorse about having pushed for regime change in Syria and Libya and that leading to enormous human suffering that we\u2019re mostly blind to.<\/p>\n

When the Obama administration made an overt push for war in Syria in 2013, the left and right united and stopped it.<\/p>\n

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The Left and Right Must Stop the Establishment\u2019s Perpetual War Machine In the aftermath of the 9\/11 attacks, some of us tried to raise questions of U.S. foreign policy. I got my\u00a0mic cut on O\u2019Reilly\u2019s show. Others got far worse \u2014 a friend basically felt he had to move out of his neighborhood he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5493,10558,524,2510,1040,10699,776,793,862],"class_list":["post-14638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-left","tag-militarism","tag-paris","tag-perpetual-war","tag-right","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14639,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638\/revisions\/14639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}