Politics of a New Paradigm

The more you watch Obama’s histrionics and listen to his empty rhetoric, the more he comes across like a man who will do or say whatever it takes to win the election, but after all, that is the way of American politics.

The day that Obama made it clear to AIPAC that he was in their pocket was the day that it became clear that Senator Obama does not represent change at all. Being a man of color with the middle name of “Hussein” has forced him to overcompensate and bend over backward to make sure everybody knows that he is pro-Zionist and anti-Muslim. His campaign has even forbade American Muslim women supporters, clad in traditional garb, from sitting behind the candidate when he was making filmed speeches.

The Zionists want American troops in the Middle East, and you can rest assured that if elected, Mr. Obama will give them exactly what they want. His antiwar stance and withdrawal plans have grown ever less resolute as he has drawn nearer to the finish line. Make no mistake about it: Obama is as connected to the international cabal who pull the strings of the puppets in Washington as anyone.

In Iraq, one can say that “the surge has worked” and the violence has quelled, so for Obama to change course is adaptation to changing circumstances rather than pandering to AIPAC and the military industrial complex. In reality, “the surge” was not the tipping point. The fact is, in many Baghdad neighborhoods, the violence has lessened largely because, after the prolonged bloodbath, there is simply nobody left to kill. The anti al-Qaeda majority of the Sunni insurgency inflicted 4,000 fatal casualties on the U.S. in five years of fighting, but they steadily lost political control to the American-backed Shiites, allied with the Kurds. They couldn’t fight both fights and decided to form al-Sahwa, with U.S. cooperation. Al-Sawha consists of 80,000 former Baathist Sunni military and security people and tribal leaders, a powerful and coordinated militia who are armed by the U.S. and paid with your tax dollars. These are the same men who killed most of the the Americans who have died in Iraq. They despise al-Maliki’s Shiite government. They chose alliance with the Americans over capitulation to the Shiites. I gathered the information above from a great article by Patrick Cockburn on Counterpunch titled “Why Iraq Could Blow Up In John McCain’s Face” and I heartily recommend that you read it.

Meanwhile, Moqtada al-Sadr’s militant Shiite Mahdi Army is still alive and well and picking their spots.

The point is that there is a seizing cauldron of ethnic hatred simmering just below the surface of the illusion of progress in Iraq. We stir the hornet’s nest of ancient feuds, arm all sides, and watch the money flow wherever the neocons want it to go via non-competitive bidding.

With so many covert operations taking place in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran by both independent government agencies and military intelligence there is no hope for true organic stabilization. The military industrial complex that Obama represents does not want peace. Did livery stables applaud the introduction of the automobile? Peace puts U.S.A. War, Inc. out of business. So I have no doubt that there will be covert operations that will keep the U.S. military in the region, whether they are carried out by the C.I.A., the JSOC, Mossad, or MI5.

If Obama is elected president, I predict that we will have no significant troop reduction in the Middle East. On other hand, if McCain is elected, I would anticipate World War III and the total collapse of the global economy. Neither candidate represents my own balanced and peaceful stance. As of today I will still vote for Obama, quite begrudgingly. Do what you have to do, but please, don’t gush over this pandering, spineless, classic definition of the word “politician.” Unlike Lloyd Bentsen, I didn’t know Jack Kennedy, and I didn’t know Bobby. But I do know this: Mr. Obama is no Robert Kennedy.