What
Secretary of State Tillerson’s Firing Means
By Paul
Craig Roberts
March
13, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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Senator
Chuck Schumer (D, NY) says Tillerson’s firing
indicates that the Trump administration is
disintegrating. I understand why Senator Schumer
sees it that way, expecially following all the
other dismissals and resignations.
I
see it differently. The firing of Secretary of
State Tillerson, the movement of CIA Director
Pompeo to Secretary of State, and the promotion
of Gina Haspel, who oversaw the secret CIA
torture prisons in Thailand (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/cia-deputy-director-gina-haspel-torture-thailand.html),
indicate that the military/security complex has
closed its grip on the Trump regime. There will
be no more talk of normalizing relations with
Russia.
The
combination of the Israel Lobby, the
neoconservatives, and the military/security
complex have proven to be too powerful for peace
to be established between the two nuclear
powers. If you look at Trump’s administration,
the above three forces are those in charge.
Israel
remains determined to use the US military to
destabilize Syria and Iran in order to isolate
Hezbollah and cut off the milita’s support and
supplies. The neoconservatives both support
Israel’s interest and their own desire for
Washington’s hegemony over the world. The
military/security complex intends to hold on to
the “Russia threat” as a justification of its
budget and power.
The
presstitutes are in complete harmony with the
scheme. Although Russiagate has been proven to
be false charges orchestrated by the DNC, FBI,
and CIA, the presstitutes continue to repeat the
charges as if evidence exists that proves the
charges to be true. The “stolen election” is
fiction turned into fact. And now we have a new
charge, that Putin ordered a former British spy
in England to be eliminated while sitting on a
park bench with the use of a highly unlikely
form of military poison. The charge is
preposterous, but that is not preventing the
fiction from becoming fact.
Having
served in Washington for a quarter century and
having known members of the British government,
I do not believe that any of them believe the
Russiagate and Skripal poisoning stories. What
is happening is that an agenda has taken
precedence over truth.
This is
an extremely dangerous agenda. Russia’s new
weapons easily give Russia military superiority
over the US. As China and Iran see the situation
similarly to the Russians, the US is greatly
out-classed. Yet, Washington and its vassals
persist in making violent and false charges and
threats against Russia, Iran, and on occasion
China. Russia, Iran, and China know that these
charges are false. Confronting an endless string
of false and hostile charges, they prepare for
war.
The
world is being driven to war, which would be
nuclear, by a tiny minority: Israeli Zionists,
neoconservatives, and the US military/security
complex. We are witnessing the most reckless and
irresponsible behavior in world history. Where
are the voices against it?
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
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