STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS

“A Man For All Wars” :  Obama the Nobel Peace Prize Winner  with Six Years in Afghanistan; Yemen; Libya;  Pakistan;  Mali; Chad; Sudan; Iraq;  ”Drone Kills of Innocent Civilians.”

On the Fifty Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s March [MLK] on Washington,  Obama,  the first black president of the US,  is engaging in ‘limited military strike’ against Syria.

 

How ironic that on the day of MLK speech which preached the inequality of blacks and the poor in America,  the first black president of the US,  will engage in another  “act of violence”.  The impeding missile strike against Syria for alleged chemical warfare is immoral,  unjustified and against all international laws…..not to mention many are saying the chem attack is possibly a false flag.

The most degrading part of Obama’s unrelenting compulsion for indiscriminate  violence – possibly an ‘addiction’-- is the fact that the US military has to once again cover the incompetence of a novitiate president.   Obama knows nothing about foreign policy and thinks that ‘missiles’ are a BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION TOOL that will PUNISH the Assad regime.

As a professional psychiatrist and ‘regime changer’ for thirty years—Soviet Communism [Russia and East Europe];  Aldo Moro [Italy];  Khmer Rouge [Cambodia]; et al. –there is NO CONCEPTUAL THEORY OR PRACTICE that I know of or have engaged in that involves a military missile strike to change any regime.   Nor will it  modify or change foreign leadership behavior.

  I stand by the former and present USArmy Generals,  including  Shinseki who warned the ‘nefarious incompetent’  Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz that a deployment of 75,000 American troops was not enough to invade Iraq.

  Similarly,   USArmy General Martin Dempsey has had the courage to go in front of the American public and state very clearly that the USG cannot enter into a war in Syria without major troop commitments,  US financial encumbrance,  and serious ‘collateral damage.’

We are experiencing a déjà vu all over again.    Again our US Commanders warn the POTUS and the American public that we cannot enter into a war without basically a ‘full court press’.

 

But what do our civilian leaders,  most of whom have never served in the US military [Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama],  they proceed with war as if war were a pristine encapsulated theoretical concept which can include ‘proportionality’ , ‘deterrence’ and ‘punishment’ as psychological and moral concepts inherent to violence.

  War is violence on STEROIDS.

  I have never met serious senior US military leader who felt that war is a solution to nation state behavior.   But I have met  countless civilians,  usually on the Liberal/ Neocon spectra of ideology who believed  that war was an instrument of behavior modification.

 

War is a simple binary phenomena.   You win or you lose.

  You kill or be killed.

  Not more complicated than that.

  The rest is absolute nonsense.  

By now,  everyone around the worlds knows that Obama had placed himself into a corner of circumlocution,  where he stupidly pronounced the inane foreign policy mantras,  like ‘red line’ for behaviors of nation states.   Next Obama added in haste,  without any understanding of regime change—“President Bashar Assad must go!”

In effect what we American civilians are doing is ENABLING INCOMPETENT CIVILIAN PRESIDENTS to make inane remarks because of their inexperience,  ineptitude and then allow through congress and the press to deploy brave US military troops to invade a county on a false pretext.

  Witness the infamous Colin Powell scene in the UN with DCI George Tenet sitting behind him,  insisting that he had proof of anthrax in a vial of glass as a justification for an invasion of Iraq. 

Powell lied.   Bush Jr. lied.   Cheney Lied.  The DCI lied.  Obama

But America became so inured to Politicians lying that the only recourse was to send brave military personnel to die in the foreign country and then find out in a net assessment of the inane action that we had accomplished nothing more than killing over 350,000 innocent civilians in the region.

So once again the Nobel Peace Prize Potus Obama is on the war path.

  He knows all too well that he does not know anything and can’t affect any change other than create chaos and death in countries like  Libya,  Egypt,  Syria,  Tunisia,  Mali.

  Obama is truly a Man FOR ALL Wars.

  Obama’s never met a war he didn't like.

 

In counterpoint to Obama,  witness the actions of General/President Eisenhower who had witnessed the horrors of war and had lead the massive invasion of Europe in WWII. 

  As president of the US,  his first task was to stop the war in Korea that Truman had incompetently initiated.   Then he prevented another war in Vietnam that  JFK,  LBJ and Nixon  had sadly entered thanks to two incompetent generals and a lying  Sec Def---Maxwell Taylor,  Westmoreland and Bob McNamara.

There are three basic principles that American Presidents have proven to me over the past fifty years.

  First,  the first victim of war is truth.
  It does not matter what they say it’s all based on lies,  false assumptions and disregard for any human lives, including Americans or foreigners.

Second,   most of the Presidents know almost nothing about human behavior or nation state behavior.   More importantly,  they create false analogies like ’proportionality’ or ‘moral imperatives’ in order to cover up their ignorance/ incompetence/ corrupt nature.

Third,  there is no civilian accountability for the destruction of human  lives or financial drainage in any act of war.   Instead, we Americans don’t want to deal with ‘good’ or ‘bad war’s –wars of choice or necessity—and instead we create memorials and fancy sounding false patriotic adages to justify the unnecessary war.

Americans cannot continue to threaten or enact wars all over the world because of some ‘false sense of importance’ or ‘superiority’ or greed.

  War is mess and dirty.   It’s not something that can be ‘titrated’ or ‘measured’.

  If missiles strike Damascus or Aleppo,  then America must contend with Russia,  Iran,  Hezbollah and the subsequent implosion of a fragile Lebanon.

  Every general knows that Mission Creep is the vouchsafe of a so-called ‘surgical strike’.

  And with ‘mission creep’ we create an iatrogenic disease called ‘WWIII’ where the following countries will react in one or another way:
  Israel,  Turkey,  Saudi Arabia,  UAE,  Jordan,  Iran,  Russia,  China,  Bahrain,  India,  Pakistan……

We are entering a period of FUBAR…

Thanks to the ‘thin red line’ created by Obama,  the Man For All Wars.

I have a dream that one day we will have peace!
  What about that Obama?

I,  who fought in too many wars,  also has a dream on the fiftieth anniversary  of Martin Luther King.

  He was also my hero.

  And so was Malcolm X who was killed violently by Elijah Muhammad and the Black Muslims.

  Let’s not forget him.

  Malcolm X can teach you,  Obama,  a lot about the non-utility of violence.