Saturday 20th of April 2024

battlelines...

trump the pacifist

Image from The Ugly Truth

What is it that keeps the Washington Post’s hyperventilating neocon scribbler Jennifer Rubin up at night? The fact that Ron Paul’s lifelong efforts to promote a peaceful foreign policy continue to light fires in the imaginations of his fellow Americans. Any chance her fellow neocons’ near-total control of Washington’s foreign policy might be slipping sends Rubin scurrying to her keyboard to launch another spit-bomb.

Rubin has been apoplectic for months over the possibility that Donald Trump may wind up the Republican nominee for the presidency. She followed six of the stages of grief but skipped the final one, acceptance, and quickly returned to the first one, shock. Forget about the fact that when it comes to foreign policy, there isn’t all that much for non-interventionists to get excited about when it comes to Donald Trump. He just threatened to shoot Russian planes, he wants to confront China, he wants to dump more money into the military-industrial complex, he just told Bibi to build build build more settlements on occupied Palestinian territory in Gaza, and so on.

With Trump we of course can hope for the best, and any improvement would be welcome, but realistically the yellow warning flags are taking on a distinctively red hue with each passing foreign policy proclamation.

Never mind. For Jennifer Rubin if Trump does not openly worship at the altar of Kristol, Podhoertz, Bolton, et. al., he must be utterly and completely destroyed.

Things are so glum in Rubinville that Jennifer has even taken to giving Hillary Clinton advice on how to defeat Trump.

http://antiwar.com/blog/2016/05/05/secretary-of-state-ron-paul-gives-jennifer-rubin-panic-attacks/

 

It's a case when Trump appears more Liberal and more Democratic in search of peace than Madame La Clinton who is a neocon hawk in disguise, in search of biffo with Putin... No wonder the Republicans are up in arms... No wonder Sanders is still in the race... I wonder what Mr Uncle Rupe thinks of all this... I guess, at the end for the mogul, is not so much about "ideologies" which are basically on par, but about the amount of cash, this kerfuffle can generate for his TV networks, movies and newspapers...