By
1962, when I left active duty and became a weekend warrior, I was beginning to
question our military posture with the advent of the Vietnam War and most
certainly after Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
I
began to feel a new appreciation for
Eisenhower's words of peace as well as his forbidding
warning in 1953.
Eisenhower's
Cross of Iron Speech / YouTube / 3 minutes
By 1970 the country had seemingly lost hope and its moral bearings
with
the loss of key political and spiritual leaders ~ JFK
assassinated in 1963,
RFK assassinated in June, 1968 and MLK
assassinated in August, 1968
Richard Nixon was sworn in as president in January
1970 but the country had never fully recovered from the loss of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther
King, Jr ~ we were in a state of moral apathy and perfect fodder for Nixon
and Kissinger to manipulate our collective fears by bombing Cambodia and then Nixon increased
domestic spying.
The
rest is history, with successive Presidents but also an ever expanding
Military/Industrial/Congressional complex ~ so now let's fast forward to
the Obama years and in particular Hillary's role as secretary of State
regarding the bombing of Libya and the fate of Gaddafi ;
'Alter Egos' Dissects Hillary Clinton's
Tenure As Obama's Secretary Of State
April
25, 2016 1:31 PM ET
Mark Landler of The New York Times discusses
Clinton and Obama's contrasting views on America's role in the world. Clinton,
Landler says, was often the hawk, more willing to intervene with force.
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR.
I'm Terry Gross. Let's get back to the interview FRESH AIR contributor Dave
Davies recorded with Mark Landler, author of the new book "Alter
Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama And The Twilight Struggle Over American
Power." Landler covered Clinton when she was President Obama's
secretary of state and Landler was covering the State Department for The New
York Times. Landler is now a White House correspondent for The Times.
DAVIES: As you read the
book, you realize what tough decisions these people faced, one of them being
whether to intervene in Libya militarily against Moammar Gadhafi's forces when
they were moving against the opposition in that country following the Arab
Spring. Take us through that debate. How did these players state their cases?
LANDLER: Well, this was a
very good illustration of the kind of role that Hillary Clinton could play in
some of these great debates over war and peace. Again, as I said earlier, she
was traveling around Europe during this period hearing from the Europeans,
hearing from Arabs, neighbors of Libya of how bad the situation was and the
risks killing of real atrocities in Benghazi. Gadhafi had promised to hunt down
the rebels house by house like rats. So that was the kind of backdrop, and that
was the message that Clinton was getting.
Back in Washington, President Obama was
characteristically reluctant. He didn't view Libya as a core strategic interest
of the United States in the way, perhaps, that France and Britain did in
Europe. And he was backed up, in this case, by his defense secretary, by Bob
Gates who also didn't view it as enough of a reason to get involved in yet
another war in the Middle East.
But Hillary Clinton made a very strong case. She wasn't
alone in making that case. Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. made
that case as did Samantha Power, who at that time was an NSC official who
thought a lot about human rights issues. And so he was - he the president - was
being faced by these fervent proponents of a military intervention to avert
this genocide in Benghazi.
But it was really Hillary Clinton who carried the day who
made the most persuasive case dialing into a White House meeting from Europe
where she had just met with one of the heads of the rebel government who told
her how bad things were, and also she was able to cobble together support from
enough Arab countries that she felt that the U.S. had enough legitimacy to take
part in this mission.
And so this was a critical moment where she really, I
think, carried the day over Gates and others, and then in turn set the stage
for a military intervention that has, of course, had an extremely bloody
aftermath with lots of misgivings and second-guessing on President Obama's
part, and one that's even shadowed her into her current election campaign -
lots of questions asked about whether Libya was worth it, was it mishandled,
did the U.S. not go in afterwards the way we should have? So these are all
questions that played out of that fateful decision.
DAVIES: Yeah, you know,
the president's maxim, don't do stupid stuff, partly reflected, you know, his
view of the Iraq War where the United States went in without a plan for what
would happen once Saddam Hussein was deposed.
In Libya, there was no plan for the United States to move
in with much of anything, right? And Obama was clearly concerned about that.
What happened after Gadhafi fell?
LANDLER: Well, this in
effect, Obama was trying to learn the lessons of past interventions, you know,
both positive and negative. During the Clinton years, the U.S. waited a long
time before intervening in Srebrenica, and there was a terrible slaughter
there.
In Iraq, the U.S. intervened full force, went in and
really occupied the country with all the mayhem that played out there. So in a
way, the president was trying to learn these lessons and get intervention right,
intervene to avert a slaughter, a mass killing but not send in tens of
thousands of troops or American advisers, not attempt to rebuild the nation of
Libya.
The problem was by not doing that, there was an enormous
security vacuum in Libya when Gadhafi finally fell and lots of militias some
with ties to al-Qaida or ISIS basically swept into that vacuum and turned Libya
into, you know, a very lethal place, a place that's really awash in guns and
feuding militias and fighting.
And so as the president has looked back on this
experience, I think he views it very much as kind of confirming all his worst
suspicions. He told Bob Gates it was a 51 - 49 decision whether to do this, and
he's been very frank in the aftermath that, you know, he regrets the way it played
out."
*
*
And here is War Hawk Presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton laughing and stating "We came, We saw and He died"
when former Libya head of State Muammar Ghaddafi was brutally assassinated which
is certainly not compassionate or
presidential and most unsettling to our dictator friends and most certainly Clinton foundation donors ~ see video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtH7iv4ip1U
THE ISRAEL CONNECTION AND CLINTON ALLEGIANCE
Sean
Adl-Tabatabai / Your News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service reports
on August 8, 2016 ~ that the new recent Wikileaks release shows the
then Secretary of State ordering a war in Syria in order to overthrow the
government and oust President Assad, claiming it was the “best way
to help Israel”.
"The document
was one of many unclassified by the US Department of State under case number F-2014-20439, Doc No. C05794498, following
the uproar over Clinton’s private email server kept at her house while she
served as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.
Although the
Wikileaks transcript dates the email as December 31, 2000, this is an error on
their part, as the contents of the email (in particular the reference to May
2012 talks between Iran and the west over its nuclear program in Istanbul) show
that the email was in fact sent on December 31, 2012.
And
speaking of the Clinton Foundation ~ with help from Jonathan Turley and Doug
Childers.
"The Clinton Foundation has been the subject
of long-standing allegations of questionable donations and reporting. It is
also viewed by many critics as a massive shadow campaign structure that
employed aides and funded Clinton trips
However, the most serious allegation was a type of
pay-to-play scheme where foreign and domestic donors gave money in the hopes of
currying favor or gaining access to the State Department.
Now, Judicial Watch has released dozens of emails that
were deleted improperly by the Clinton staff, but contain non-personal
communications.
Among the recovered emails are communications showing interventions
for donors at the State Department, including one on
behalf of a convicted money launderer. The relative lack of coverage on both the proof of the improper
deletion of such emails and the pay-for-play concerns is astonishing ~ and
magnify concerns that mainstream media has been giving such controversies
minimal coverage."
See Turley article ~ https://jonathanturley.org/2016/08/11/recovered-emails-show-clinton-foundation-officials-intervening-for-donors-and-aides-with-state-department/
James
Grimaldi, Pulitzer Winning Journalist (WSJ) gives a detailed
report to Democracy Today and Amy Goodman on
the obvious conflicts of interest with the Clintons and Clinton Foundation ~
many while Hillary was Secretary of State. See Video Report ~ http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37217-did-companies-and-countries-buy-state-deptartment-access-by-donating-to-clinton-foundation
With
the help of Doug Childers regarding the
spiritual meaning of these developments ~ I’ve only done a cursory
reading of articles on the Clinton Foundation, but I’m
not as informed as I could be. But the list I’ve gotten from sources I respect
is that the Foundation is a criminal money-making, money-laundering, bribery
based organization posing as a humanitarian operation
~
but,
for all intent and purposes, it appears to be another highly visible slow speed
chase by the Feds.
I
did read about how the Clintons went into
Haiti and made a fortune under the pretense of doing service, of which they did
very little. And I know about Hillary helping the Haiti government negotiate a
poverty minimum wage of thirty something cents an hour instead of the
sixty-something cents an hour representatives of the Haitian people were trying
to get. And I’ve been reading and hearing lately that the Clinton Foundation
connections have infiltrated into every branch and aspect of the U.S.
government and other governments as well.
The
upshot being that no one dares to go after them because if they go down
they’ll take much of the government with them. You probably know that
the head of the FBI who declined to charge Hillary for the email
fiasco was a board member, I think, for the Clinton Foundation or some
branch of it.
So
my understanding is that the Clinton Foundation is an unparalleled phenomena
in all the above respects, a kind of vast parasitic organization feeding
off of the total corrupt system we currently have. The revelations of
this past year have been truly astounding ~ particularly by WikiLeaks ~ I’ve
never seen anything like it.
But
my spiritual sense is that it is the necessary revelation of the shadow that
precedes a collective awakening that has to happen for things to change.
As such, Donald Trump is a false flag distraction to humor, feed and distract the public
and Main Stream press as well as protect the Clinton foundation
from close scrutiny.
As Andy Borowitz
satirically writes in the New Yorker : "Clarifying his position on a
key national-security issue, Donald Trump said on Friday that as President he
would be willing to use nuclear weapons, ' but
meant it only in a sarcastic way.'"
In that sense, Trump is not a threat and
should not be taken seriously but should be seen only
as a distraction, perhaps encouraged by the
Clintons themselves ~ and it will become obvious, as Maureen Dowd explains today in the
New York Times, that the GOP already has the perfect candidate for
President;
"All these woebegone Republicans whining that they can’t rally behind their
flawed candidate is crazy. The G.O.P. angst, the gnashing and wailing and
searching for last-minute substitutes and exit strategies, is getting old.
They already have a 1-percenter who will be totally fine in the Oval
Office, someone they can trust to help Wall Street, boost the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, cuddle with hedge funds, secure the trade deals beloved by corporate
America, seek guidance from Henry Kissinger and hawk it up ~ unleashing
hell on Syria and heaven knows where else.
The Republicans have their candidate: It’s Hillary."
You know Jung’s
saying that “enlightenment...is about making the darkness conscious"
~ or more palatable and it's
obvious the Clintons have made the darkness more than obvious with their
deceptive track record, fabrications and
Clinton Foundation.
It
appears that everyone in political power has their price and can be
marginalized such as the recent silencing of Bernie Sanders by the Clinton
Machine and his subsequent purchasing of a $600,000 vacation home on Lake
Champaign ~ after endorsing Hillary for President ~ connect the dots and
realize we are sinking fast in a moral toilet.
As
the collective awareness of all that has been and continues to be revealed,
including our dark side, a shift in the
collective psyche of America is occurring
that will be decisive ~ and a new
consciousness will eventually fuel a dynamic activism that can eventually topple the global corporate/military state
that has been running things from behind a
closed curtain for decades.
That
curtain is slowly opening but unfortunately
we may have to live with the dark side of Hillary's cross of iron ~ much as you
must embrace fear to transcend it ~ before we can truly
embrace the light at the end of that dark tunnel as well as our place in a Unified Field of love and soul
consciousness that lies not only beyond time and space but also beneath our
deepest fears ~ and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite which we continue to ignore at our collective
peril.
There are other clear strident voices which must be heard before November 4th and
hopefully that includes the Green
Party's Jill Stein whose progressive voice
must be heard at the upcoming Presidential debates ~ see www.Jill2016.com
But before the dawn of a new age
must come the darkness of apathy and despair
~ for we are all now unfortunately hanging
from and bearing the consequences of the Bush, Obama
and now Clinton cross of Iron. And for all intent and purposes, there is only one party ~ The War party.
"The
day will come when, after mastering the ether, the winds, the tides, gravity,
we shall master the energies of love, for God. And then, for the second time in
the history of the world, man will have made fire his servant." Teilhard de Chardin,
The Evolution of Chasity (unpublished)
Allen
L Roland, PhD
Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L
Roland can be contacted at allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a
lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary
on his web log and
website allenroland.com. He is
also featured columnist on Veterans Today and is a
featured guest on many radio and Television programs
