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Again, rhetoric substitutes for hard facts.
Seale says Obama "lost control to Israel. (He) collapsed in front of (Netanyahu's) Greater Israel (land grab) ambitions...."
He's embroiled in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Somalia, and "increasingly across the Sahel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Its territory includes Mauritania, Mali, southern Algeria, Niger, Chad, South Sudan and Eritrea.
He's fighting battles he can't win. He's like a punch drunk fighter refusing to go down when licked. Instead, new ways to kill, destroy, and subvert are used. Peace and stability more than ever look distant.
Immanuel Wallerstein discussed the "impossible dilemmas of declining powers." Years ago he predicted America's decline. It's happening faster than he imagined. It's policies are self-defeating. Short-term priorities assure its longer-run downfall.
"The obvious thing to do is not to go down this road any more." America's agenda doesn't work. Neither does Israel's "Don't (Obama and Netanyahu) understand this?"
If so, why do they keep doing what's failing? They even boast when they should change strategies responsibly.
Political priorities take precedence. Opposition hard-liners in both countries think they're soft. Voices for change are absent. Hawks are dominant. Public opinion remains indifferent about what matters most.
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