{"id":32442,"date":"2018-03-16T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32442"},"modified":"2018-03-16T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:15:53","slug":"as-trump-moves-toward-war-the-resistance-refuses-to-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32442","title":{"rendered":"As Trump Moves Toward War, \u201cThe Resistance\u201d Refuses to Resist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Trump Moves Toward War, \u201cThe Resistance\u201d Refuses to Resist<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Tuesday\u2019s post,\u00a0It\u2019s Impossible to Overstate How Terrible Mike Pompeo Is<\/a><\/strong>, laid out the view that Trump\u2019s firing of Rex Tillerson represents a major shift toward war footing for the Trump administration, with Iran the specific target. This pivot was easily predictable, and I wrote numerous articles doing just that during 2017. Nevertheless, forecasting it and then seeing the disastrous pieces being moved into place are two different things.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s push to install Mike Pompeo as U.S. Secretary of State is a crystal clear indication that he\u2019s begun the process of building his war cabinet. The next steps, likely to begin over the course of 2018, is to walk away from the Iran deal. I suspect relentless war propaganda to be unleashed simultaneously as the neocon\/neoliberal\/mass media war-monger alliance plays its well established role in selling the American public on another pointless and destructive war.<\/p>\n

My prior post discussed Pompeo in detail, so I don\u2019t want to be repetitive, but to revisit: Pompeo has contempt for the First Amendment, referred to torturers as patriots, wants Edward Snowden executed and is an extreme warhawk when it comes to Iran.<\/strong> In other words, he\u2019s your typical neocon lunatic who\u2019s just a bit more rough around the edges publicly. He represents the exact opposite sort of foreign policy to what so many Trump voters thought they were getting.<\/p>\n

Switching gears a bit, today\u2019s piece will zero in on Trump\u2019s other desired appointment, Gina Haspel to head the CIA. Gina\u2019s famous for running a CIA black site in Thailand where detainees were tortured. In fact, she performed her role with such gusto she was nicknamed \u201cBloody Gina\u201d by some colleagues, and also played a key role in destroying videotape evidence of the torture. Her promotion represents a bizarre way to \u201cdrain the swamp,\u201d but I digress.<\/p>\n

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As Trump Moves Toward War, \u201cThe Resistance\u201d Refuses to Resist Tuesday\u2019s post,\u00a0It\u2019s Impossible to Overstate How Terrible Mike Pompeo Is, laid out the view that Trump\u2019s firing of Rex Tillerson represents a major shift toward war footing for the Trump administration, with Iran the specific target. This pivot was easily predictable, and I wrote numerous […]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[7844,4285,6174,5168,694,827,862],"class_list":["post-32442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-donald-trump","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-resistance","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442","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=32442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32443,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442\/revisions\/32443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}