- “The juxtaposition of the course of the civil wars in Libya and Syria and the
related human suffering should cause anybody who promotes non-intervention
on the grounds of human welfare to take notice. I opposed the intervention in
Libya at the time but watching Syria burn I’m no longer convinced of my position.”
Jeez … non-intervention? What a stupidity … the US/UK/France alliance chose to intervene militarily. Ever heard of color revolutions?
Sometimes I need to check as I appeared to be lost in McCainesque comments of warmongering, choosing wrong sides in proxy wars and promoting ill-founded ideas based on fiction or plain US propaganda. Obama promised to misinform the American people and many right-wing groups followed or preceded him in that domestic policy.
Neocons in Congress at the forefront to send arms to Jihadists flown into Bosnia during the War on the Balkans under president Bill Clinton in the 90s.
U.S. interventions in the Balkans and then Libya were presented by the compliant U.S. and allied mainstream media as humanitarian. Indeed, some Washington interventionists may have sincerely believed this. But deeper motivations – from oil to geostrategic priorities – were also at work in both instances.
In virtually all the wars since 1989, America and Islamist factions have been battling to determine who will control the heartlands of Eurasia in the post-Soviet era. In some countries – Somalia in 1993, Afghanistan in 2001 – the conflict has been straightforward, with each side using the other’s excesses as an excuse for intervention.
But there have been other interventions in which Americans have used al-Qaeda as a resource to increase their influence, for example Azerbaijan in 1993. There a pro-Moscow president was ousted after large numbers of Arab and other foreign mujahedin veterans were secretly imported from Afghanistan, on an airline hastily organized by three former veterans of the CIA’s airline Air America. (The three, all once detailed from the Pentagon to the CIA, were Richard Secord, Harry Aderholt, and Ed Dearborn.)2 This was an ad hoc marriage of convenience: the mujahedin got to defend Muslims against Russian influence in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, while the Americans got a new president who opened up the oilfields of Baku to western oil companies.
Why would bloggers @BooMan express any likes for well known warmongers and interventionists linked to John McCane or anyone connected with Dick Cheney and his Neocon cabal durin eight years of George W. Bush. That’s truly beyong me and explains Martin Longman’s tormenting: “I don’t recognize my own neighborhood.”
The Applebaum and Sikorski Show
I’m thrilled we always differ on our analysis of what is reality … get a life.
Continued below the fold …
The current leader of the Polish parliament (Sejm) is former Foreign and Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, a former U.S. resident and British citizen. Sikorski is married to the neocon columnist Anne Applebaum, a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post.
Sikorski served as a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which provides employment for a number of anti-Russian warhawks, including Fred Kagan, brother-in-law of Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland.
Lynne Cheney, wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney, and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton also serve as AEI fellows.
Sikorski is also a close friend of neocon media mogul Rupert Murdoch . Sikorski has been at the forefront of calling for increased European Union sanctions against Russia and the further expansion of NATO to the east.
Sikorski accused of subversion, removed as head of Polish parliament
○ Sheer Ignorance of Polish Contribution In WWII
From my previous diaries/comments …
○ Anne Applebaum employed by Legatum in London
○ Anne Sikorski-Applebaum the Raving War Lunatic – Aug. 2014
○ Radoslaw Sikorski as British ‘journalist’ in Afghan War handing over Stinger missiles to Saudi’s mujahideen
○ Lieberman Support for Bush, Israel, Iraq War and Mujahideen
○ EU/NATO Propaganda It’s About Daesh and Russia
Who Are These Guys?
Weiss and Pomerantsev [3] are an unlikely pair. Weiss, youthful yet professorial in manner, has become a nearly constant presence on cable news because of his supposed expertise on, among other things, Russia, Syria, and ISIS. A longtime neoconservative journalist, he began his rise to cable-news ubiquity as a protégé of the late Christopher Hitchens.
After working with Hitchens, he made his way to the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), a London-based bastion of neoconservatism that, according to a report in The Guardian, has “attracted controversy in recent years–with key staff criticised in the past for allegedly anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant comments.”
[2] See my finding of the connect between The Interpreter, Henry Jackson Society and Khodorkovsky in 2014 at the height of the Maidan protests and the coup d'état in Kiev: Ukraine Partners Chesno (Honestly) - USAID
[3] From the link, CEPA's Information Warfare Initiative conducted in partnership with the Legatum Institute - which employs
Anne Applebaum
○ Bannon Down, Pentagon Up, Neocons In?