American Foreign Policy Is TOTALLY BROKEN: Here Is How We Fix It
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Planet of the Apes and our foreign policy. We have had dialogue here. We’ve been discussing foreign policy, our foreign policy follies here on the program for a very, very long period of time. Interesting enough, I saw today, I don’t know what it was, one of the Fox’s out there, one of the Fox websites are talking about George W. Bush is going to have in a.
an art showing, I think at Disney World of his paintings of veterans. And I said, well, I guess that’s nice, but hey, W, maybe you might want to go out and start yelling and screaming about the stupid things you did as president as far as foreign policy is concerned. I understand your love of veterans and whatnot. You sent them off.
and started forever wars, I, you know, but it might might there not be a better way. Might you not want to go out and just say, you know what, I screwed up royally. Anyway, Planet of the Apes and foreign policy. I saw a piece today which was amazing in the sense that various different points and topics that we have discussed and brought up here on the program over the years.
were rolled into one is written by Eric Prince. Eric Prince is a Navy SEAL and he is he owns a private military company, Blackwater, and Pentagon outsources work to him from time to time. And again, I want to put that out there because people are going to say, well, he’s basically pitching his book and what he does in this column. Maybe. Maybe, but.
He’s got great points. And what made me think of Planet of the Apes, the title of his column, Neocons almost killed America. Here’s how patriots can fix it. I think about killing America. And when I was a kid, one of my favorite movies and I had the action figures from Planet of the Apes was that movie. And in my opinion, the ending of Planet of the Apes was just…
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was brilliant with Charlton Heston there on the beach. It was interesting too. I remember when I was a kid, you know, the ape, all my action figures, the apes were always the good guys when I played with them. And you go back and you watch the movie and who’s the guy, you know, Dr. Zayas, the guy that was behind the ape religion.
at that time. He was a villain there, but
Had a point. Had a point. And I had to go back and look it up. He had this, this part of their religion. And I think they mentioned this in the second plan, the apes. He said, it’s part of the rigid. Beware the beast man for he is the devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yeah, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers for he will make a desert of his home.
and yours shun him drive him back into his jungle lair for he is the harbinger of death.” Again, Dr. Zayas knew, remember that the forbidden zone and he knew what was there. He knew the truth, but he didn’t want it to get out. Anyway, neither here nor there. Let’s get into this piece today. It’s painfully apparent to anyone of sound mind and judgment that there’s something gravely wrong with America’s current military capacity and our ability to project power.
in the world. The World War II era fighting force, composed of 14 million GIs with a muscular industrial base backing them up is almost unimaginable today. In the last three years, five different US embassies have been evacuated. Sudan, Afghanistan, Belarus, Ukraine, and Niger. Americans are held hostage in Gaza. Commercial shipping traffic is blockaded, and our ground and naval forces are shot at daily.
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with impunity, again, things that we have ranted about here on the program. How did America go from winning the Cold War and being the sole global superpower in the 90s to the state of disarray that we find ourselves in now? Again, one of the reasons, financial. All warfare has an underlying economic basis and a nation’s military power reflects its economic structure.
Today in America, the exorbitant privilege of the US dollar and the unlimited printing press of fiat currency, again, talk about this all the time, enables means current US defense spending is essentially covered by debt. 30 % of the current national debt consists of military overspend from the so -called global war on terror. Yes.
This reality has created an absence of strategic discipline and a military policy that prioritizes a tiny guild of contractors feeding an obese top heavy structure rather than winning wars. Throughout this piece, he points out the one mistake after another mistake after another mistake and again.
very articulate and pointing out everything that we’ve done wrong going after the neo cons. You know, the neo cons are right there. They were big time libs, Trotskyites, and they resigned within the Republican party guys. That’s where they are. They are dominant in the belt way as far as policy is concerned.
And they have been, they get this policy of continuous warfare being funded by our printing press, which does what? Makes everything more expensive for each and every one of us. So -called peace dividend that followed the end of the Cold War was redirected into expanding NATO instead of ending it. The goal was to enrich the military industrial complex,
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by creating more clients to buy US weapons at the expense of the opportunity to partner with Russia. Promises of not expanding NATO eastward into former Warsaw Pact countries was broken and NATO troops were deployed on Russia’s border. Yeah, yeah. Well, didn’t we talk about this past week, weapons systems for NATO and how they all have to basically work the same way and they buy them from the same people?
Yeah. Priorities of NeoCon Washington projected in the US policy in Africa. Talking about it and it goes back and he talks about it. Remember Charles Taylor, the Liberian warlord sponsored the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone back in the 90s and how they captured the country and all the diamond rich areas and then all the acts that were taking place and how we were involved in that, stepped in, stepped out.
I mean, it goes into Africa, again, talks about, again, Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia talks about Somalia, Mogadishu, 18 US special operations personnel, 73 wounded. Again, all air support was rejected. They asked for it. Clinton didn’t want to send it.
And this is interesting too, okay. In the aftermath of 9 -11, President Bush met with his war cabinet to plan a response to what happened. As the Pentagon smoldered, the Department of Defense recommended a bombing campaign and a ranger raid against Al -Qaeda, but wanted to wait at least six months before beginning combat operations in order to avoid.
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the Afghan winter. The CIA recommended an unconventional warfare campaign. They wanted to supercharge the Northern Alliance who’d been fighting the Taliban for a decade with US air power directed by SOF advisors. The CIA plan was adopted. The Taliban and their guests Al -Qaeda were routed in weeks by a highly aggressive SOF targeting cycle, which gave them no quarter. Now,
The US response to 9 -11 should have resembled a scripto -Africanist -style Roman punitive raid, killing all Taliban and Al -Qaeda remnants within reach, including those sheltering in the tribal areas of Pakistan, and then getting the hell out. Instead, money, money, money, yes, Neel Khan saw a lucrative opportunity, nation building, yeah.
The Pentagon runs on the bureaucratic principle of budget cycles and the internal war for promotion rather than the principle of victory. A vastly inflated occupational army, ultimately comprising 120 ,000 soldiers was deployed in the country. Again, basically we did what the Soviets did in the eighties. Actually, same bases we used. Ignoring every.
historical lesson of successful counterinsurgencies. Experienced soldiers were rotated on six to 12 month intervals with fresh units, losing all continuity and local intelligence. Top commander spot rotated 18 times in 20 years. Concerned as per usual with marketing for their defense contractor clients, the neocons dragged dozens of largely unwilling NATO members to Afghanistan, producing a dysfunctional force of individual
national mandates. Many nations wouldn’t control at night or engage in offensive combat missions. When the German army arrived in Kabul in the spring of 2002, among their concerns was finding appropriate housing for all the gay couples. Not making this up. They wanted to install, and Bush talked about this, a damn Jeffersonian democracy.
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on a largely illiterate, semi -feudal, tribal nation. And we’re gonna do that by just throwing money at it. Yeah, what do we get? Corruption, not infrastructure. And again, it was chaos. Not only was there never a truly empowered Supreme Commander, authorities were split between the US ambassador, CIA station chief, current four -star US general, CENTCOM commander,
their staff residing in Qatar or Tampa, and various representatives from NATO. This committee from hell produced predictable results. And then again, he talks about how this fighting group, what they were able to do. And they didn’t even have stinger missiles like the Mujahideen did to shoot at Soviet aircraft. We didn’t lose a single aircraft.
that entire time. You want to you want to see how dumb the thing was? Again, they they ended up making money. The bad guys make it ended up making money, not only selling drugs. We talked about that and heroin all over the globe, but also fuel. Fuel, there’s an actual vast reserve of crude in Afghanistan that had been drilled.
and I was all set and ready to go. I was put together by Soviet forces before they left in 1989. We didn’t do that. We didn’t do that. Again, we had to spend more money. Contractors had to make money. You know, we paid the operational cost of $250 a gallon for fuel in Afghanistan.
And again, this piece, lengthy piece, about 20 pages long, breaks everything down. The failure in Iraq, what we did in Libya. And again, he talks about what’s going on. What’s going on, obviously, in Washington, D .C. and how all of these think tank people and elites run the show and how different it is from…
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you know, back in Roman times where members of the Senate would have to actually go off and fight. We don’t have that here in this country anymore. And we don’t learn any lessons either. We keep doing the same thing again and again and again. And actually actually talks about what’s going on right now in Gaza. Israel, this is kind of fascinating. Israel.
suggested. You remember this, they were talking about this flooding the tunnels.
flooding the tunnels with seawater. They got 300 miles of tunnels spanning all of Gaza. And the goal behind these tunnels was to obviously get the Israeli Defense Forces stuck into an urban quagmire, kind of like Fallujah for us. Why not flood the tunnels with seawater using Texas precision drilling technology? The TACTIV would have obviated the need to bomb urban areas containing civilians.
and the terrible suffering that this tactic entails. Flooding the tunnels would have destroyed all underground weapon storage, prevented maneuver, and would have forced Hamas to move or lose their hostage human shields. Again, that was the tactic that was offered, but we told the Israelis no. We told them no. Yeah, the piece goes on to talk about.
military strategy and what it takes and what needs to be done in order to win wars. And you can’t do it through precision strikes and these measures where it’s like, you know, we talked about this, I did an entire podcast on this. He says the same exact thing, proportional response. You don’t have proportional response. You have 30 % of,
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German’s male population was wiped out in World War II. Was wiped out in World War II. And then again, you also, you talk about what’s going on right now with Russia. And I brought this up from the get go. It’s hard for our psyche to understand what Russia was the Soviet Union at the time went through. We lost 250 ,000 in World War II. And we think, wow, what a number.
Soviet Union, 22 million plus. 22 million plus.
And again, to have that in the back of one’s mind as, okay, we’re in Croach. Listen, you can’t not say that they don’t have a point to some degree. You can’t. You can’t just throw that out the window. They won the Battle of Stalingrad. We weren’t even in Europe at that point in time. We were in North Africa.
They lost two soldiers for every German that they killed and they still wiped out a million plus Germans in that. I mean, people. Our foreign policy is a disaster. We’ve been talking about this for some time. And again, we talk about we’ve been talking a lot about the unit party. This is this is something that we have to break.
We have to break, it’s bankrupting us and it’s wrong.
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I mean, for crying out loud, it’s wrong. And he finished up the column. I’ll share this with you as well. And again, you want to argue with me, fine. Our founding fathers, founding fathers’ instincts for empowering market capacities and military are articulated in the Constitution. And he talks about, before discussing Congress shall raise a Navy Congress.
mandated the private sector to basically give a hunting license for private contactors to interdict an enemy shipping. This goes back to the Mediterranean and the Barbary pirates. The litany of failures that he discussed, ample evidence that the current military status quo is ineffective. A government only approach abroad is calamitous and undermines US credibility and deterrence.
The foreign policy of the United States should be that our friends love us, our rivals respect us, and our enemies fear us. Instead, our friends fear our self -enlation while our rivals consume us and our enemies fire upon us without consequence. Is he not right?
Is he not accurate in what he’s saying? And again, it’s a bit of a reality check. And I, again, go through well thought out written piece, again, bringing up many, many episodes of this show over the past several years. Again, I give credit to Eric Prince. Neocons almost killed America. Here’s how patriots can fix it. I…
I don’t want to be Charlton Heston looking up at this broken down Statue of Liberty banging on the beach, guys. Watchdog on wallstreet .com.