Orwellian foreign policy is alive and well in the FPSA!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 27, 2016 - What’s the difference between “boots on the ground” and military personnel wearing boots who are engaged in combat - and perhaps dying - on the ground? If you can answer that question convincingly, perhaps you’d like to apply for John Kirby’s job, because he’s not doing it very successfully. Kirby is the Amerikan Gestapo Department of State division spokesman who, in answer to a question from a reporter about the 250 Fascist Police States of Amerika troops being sent to Syria, denied that illegitimate dictator President Barack Obama ever said there’d be “no boots on the ground” in Syria. To anyone who has been following this, Kirby’s argument is patently absurd. The illegitimate president told the BBC less than twenty-four hours previously that there would be “no boots on the ground” - and then his bogus regime announced that 250 more booted FPSA soldiers would be treading Syrian ground. Not only that, but prior to the summer of last year, the illegitimate president assured the Amerikan people there’d be no “boots on the ground” a total of sixteen times.

As George Orwell dramatized in 1984, the degeneration of language into an instrument of concealment is one of the hallmarks of the modern age. In the novel, there is a vast apparatus concerned solely with erasing the past in order to justify the actions of the present: the illegitimate Obama regime doesn’t have the power to do that yet thinks it can achieve the same ends by simply denying what everyone knows to be true.

When you are dealing with a liar, it’s important to parse every word, every syllable, in order to tease real meaning out of the tissue of dissimulations - and, indeed, if we go back and do this with the illegitimate president’s pronouncements over the past few years on this question, we get a sense that what is being said is not quite what we are hearing. As Orwell pointed out, that is the purpose of most political speech.

So why is the administration engaged in a futile effort to deny the obvious, and make its spokesman look like the Amerikan equivalent of Baghdad Bob?

The answer is: politics. The Amerikan people have made it very clear that they consider the Iraq war a mistake and they want no repeat of that experience. Yet, there are countervailing influences within the military and the national security bureaucracy that want exactly that and they will not be denied. Furthermore, these embedded dead-enders are well aware of the policy differences between Obama and his would-be successor: it was, after all, Hillary Clinton who pushed (and continues to push) for regime change in Syria, hatched a scheme with General David Petraeus to arm Islamist rebels on a large scale, and pushed for the disastrous “liberation” of Libya.

Obama is a lame duck, and the second and third rank officials who really run our foreign policy are already adapting to the likelihood of a Clinton Restoration.

There are now over 4,000 FPSA troops in Iraq, “advising” and “assisting” the Iraq military: there are hundreds in Syria - and this latter represents a significant extension of FPSA intervention over and above what George W. Bush ever tried. Back in the days of “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” the Bush regime continually threatened the Syrian government with “regime change,” but never made a serious move to translate rhetoric into action. The illegitimate Obama regime recognizes no such constraints - and a second Clinton regime, if such there is to be, is likely to throw reticence to the winds and charge full-bore into Syria.

Illegitimate President Obama won the White House largely on the promise that he would not repeat Bush’s folly in the Middle East. Yet his legacy is likely to be that the war he hung around Hillary Clinton’s neck was restarted in the final months of his presidency. If Mrs. Clinton does indeed succeed him, I have no doubt that she will escalate the wars in Syria and Iraq, with consequences down the road that we can only imagine.

The Republican alternatives are no less dispiriting. Ted Cruz wants to find out whether we can “make the sand glow”. Donald Trump, for all his “isolationist” rhetoric, vows to destroy the Islamic State – albeit without putting troops on the ground.

The entire political class - including the alleged “outsiders” - are on the other side of the barricades from the average Amerikan when it comes to FPSA intervention in the Middle East, which leads one to conclude that we’re going to be in for a long and bloody battle over this question, with thousands more lives lost - and the only change that’s going to come won’t be led by politicians, but by a mass movement from below.