- Hillary Clinton is an ruthless imperialist war-monger. She is utterly committed to American and Zionist exceptionalism. As president, she will, under whatever phony "humanitarian" pretexts, continue to embroil our country in criminal aggressions that will, a nd will be meant to, increase the jihadi chaos in the Middle East and throughout the world, and, given the present context, run the real risk of a war with Russia. Let's be clear about the "no-fly zone" she is now proposing: She'll present this, in "humanitarian" doublespeak, as a haven for refugees, but it is, as the Commander of NATO said, "quite frankly an act of war." And its real purpose, as I have said before, is to create a zone that's safe for the jihadis. It will be a area in which al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS, the Army of Conquest, and all their jihadi brothers-in-arms will be protected from Russia, the Syrian Arab Army, and Hezbollah, who actually are waging a war against them. It will be a redoubt in which the jihadi forces can regroup and rearm (with the help of the U.S.and its "partners," especially Saudi Arabia and Turkey), and from which they can launch new attacks to overthrow the government of Syria, la Libya. To anyone who, at this point, believes something else, I can only say: Ha. Any progressive-minded American needs to face this, and anyone who is running against her as a progressive alternative needs to make this clear.
- There no such thing as Progressive Except Imperialism. Equal-opportunity imperialism is imperialism, period. African-American, women, Latino, or LGBTQ presidents, generals, and drone operators do not make it any less criminal, dangerous, and supremacist -- as well as inevitably destructive of any purported progressive domestic agenda.
- No force in the world is more responsible for the rampaging jihadi armies of the world than the United States of America.
Recognizing, confronting, and taking responsibility for this requires abandoning a whole set of illusions, and engaging in a very radical fight to change the way Americans think and their government acts.
If Americans don't wake up about this, we are doomed to an even worse disaster than we are already in.
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