{"id":60818,"date":"2015-07-13T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=60818"},"modified":"2015-07-11T19:08:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T18:08:04","slug":"pentagon-concludes-america-not-safe-unless-it-conquers-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/07\/pentagon-concludes-america-not-safe-unless-it-conquers-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe unless It Conquers the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Jul 2015 – <\/em>The Pentagon has released its \u201cNational Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015,\u201d June 2015.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.usni.org\/2015\/07\/02\/document-2015-u-s-national-military-strategy <\/a><\/p>\n

The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to \u201cstate actors\u201d that \u201care challenging international norms.\u201d It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that challenge international norms are sovereign countries that pursue policies independently of Washington\u2019s policies. These \u201crevisionist states\u201d are threats, not because they plan to attack the US, which the Pentagon admits neither Russia nor China intend, but because they are independent. In other words, the norm is dependence on Washington.<\/p>\n

Be sure to grasp the point: The threat is the existence of sovereign states, whose independence of action makes them \u201crevisionist states.\u201d In other words, their independence is out of step with the neoconservative Uni-power doctrine that declares independence to be the right of Washington alone. Washington\u2019s History-given hegemony precludes any other country being independent in its actions.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon\u2019s report defines the foremost \u201crevisionist states\u201d as Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. The focus is primarily on Russia.Washington hopes to co-op China, despite the \u201ctension to the Asia-Pacific region\u201d that China\u2019s defense of its sphere of influence, a defense \u201cinconsistent with international law\u201d (this from Washington, the great violator of international law), by turning over what remains of the American consumer market to China. It is not yet certain that Iran has escaped the fate that Washington imposed on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Ukraine, and by complicity Palestine.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon report is sufficiently audacious in its hypocrisy, as all statements from Washington are, to declare that Washington and its vassals \u201csupport the established institutions and processes dedicated to preventing conflict, respecting sovereignty, and furthering human rights.\u201d This from the military of a government that has invaded, bombed, and overthrown 11 governments since the Clinton regime and is currently working to overthrow governments in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina.<\/p>\n

In the Pentagon document, Russia is under fire for not acting \u201cin accordance with international norms,\u201d which means Russia is not following Washington\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

In other words, this is a bullshit report written by neocons in order to foment war with Russia.<\/p>\n

Nothing else can be said about the Pentagon report, which justifies war and more war. Without war and conquests, Americans are not safe.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s view toward Russia is the same as Cato the Elder\u2019s view toward Carthage. Cato the Elder finished his every speech on any subject in the Roman Senate with the statement \u201cCarthage must be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

This report tells us that war with Russia is our future unless Russia agrees to become a vassal state like every country in Europe, and Canada, Australia, Ukraine, and Japan. Otherwise, the neoconservatives have decided that it is impossible for Americans to tolerate living with a country that makes decisions independently of Washington. If American cannot be The Uni-Power dictating to the world, better that we are all dead. At least that will show the Russians.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the <\/em>Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for <\/em>Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and <\/em>Creators Syndicate. His latest books are<\/em> The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West<\/a> and<\/em> How America Was Lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon report is sufficiently audacious in its hypocrisy to declare that Washington \u201csupports the established institutions and processes dedicated to preventing conflict, respecting sovereignty, and furthering human rights.\u201d This from the military of a government that has invaded, bombed, and overthrown 11 governments since the Clinton regime and is currently working to overthrow governments in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militarism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}