Michael Scheuer | Non-Intervention

President Trump’s decision to allow white South African Framers to enter the United States as refugees and thereby escape the bloody claws of a violent tyranny is correct and merits wide support. The decision appears to be based on the fact that since the apartheid’s end in South African 1994, the black South African government has scored three stellar achievements.

–It has demolished the Boers’ national, continental, and international economic steamroller, thereby substantially diminishing the present and future economic well-being of South Africa and its neighbors on the continent.

–It has deliberately built – with the enduring inspiration of the terrorist Mandela and his party — a criminal and clown-show government, as well as a culture of violence aimed against white South Africans, who are deemed to be enemies of the savage new South African political order.

–It has refined the deadly national culture it birthed by steadily expanding a new lethal sport; namely, the theft of land owned by white people via shooting and killing the country’s superb white Afrikaans farmers and their families, the group that has long formed a potent agricultural weapon that has staved off starvation not only in South Africa but among its neighbors. The number of fist-hand reports of such government-blessed behavior by murderous black racists has grown so large over the years that anyone denying it is both a liar and typical of the intense anti-white racism of the world’s mainstream media and its Globalists masters.

Trump’s attempt to rescue a few of the many white farmers and their families yet to be slaughtered by Pretoria’s savage anti-white lust has been too slow in coming. Russian President Putin began taking in white South African farmer and their families in the summer of 2018. Putin clearly had read the following statement, “The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans” and acted in the interests of Russia directly, humanity generally, as well as the white South African farmers, Christian scripture, and Russia’s agricultural security. One wishes Trump had acted much sooner, and perhaps on a larger scale, after Putin set the example. The quote by the way, is from a statement made by the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, on 21 February 2018. (bold emphasis added).

Trump’s action, one hopes, will bring in as many white South African farmers and their families as the law and any security considerations allow. After all, Biden’s fascist administration and his ketchup-tycoon/Climate-Tsar John Kerry waged a destructive four-year war against American farmers, their properties, and their supposedly earth-endangering cows. Leave it to that nitwit Kerry to create the climate-gangsters’ motto “If we don’t severely cutback farm production people will die!” But this motto is par for the course. Biden, Kerry, and the world’s other climate-fraud gangsters also have said that a severe reduction of CO2 is needed to save the world’s population”, even though it is an irrefutable scientific fact that without ample and increasing CO2 in the air, life on earth is not possible.

Trump’s policy of offering entry and eventually citizenghip to hard-working, agriculturally effective, and Christian white South African farmers to American citizenship, has likewise struck a blow for the most hated of all the Democrats’ domestic enemies, American Christians. On this point, keep in mind that the Biden-Kerry anti-farming campaign emphasized the persecution Christian Amish farmers and ultimately planned to send them to the climate-change Gulag.

Finally, Trump’s decision has helpfully prompted savage and very revealing attacks on his plan from the murdering South African government, globalists, liberals, the Democratic Party, radical or mad American blacks, fatuous Christian leaders, and the many millions of American adults-by-age-only, who have never matured and who are incapable of recognizing the difference between good and evil, and rule-by law and societal chaos. In addition, the mainstream U.S. media, and many other woke individuals and entities – a similar combination is strangling Europe — are declaring that Trump and those who agree with him are “white supremacists” bent on building an all-white America and seeking to drive non-whites into servitude. Such assertions, of course, are hard evidence of the hatred of Trump’s opposition for whites and reveals their power-hungry madness. In addition, however, they do reveal the reality of political life in the United States. That reality, since at least the end of the 1950s, is that the U.S. Democratic Party has successfully kept black Americans and immigrant minorities – legal or illegal — forever trapped on the party’s political plantations by channeling ridiculous amounts of taxpayer monies to them, by forever deliberately brewing anti-white hatred among them, and by creating a corrupt legal and political system that today favors blacks – and, of course, illegal aliens — over whites.

Trump’s move to protect the lives, and bring to America, endangered white South African farmers cannot, of course, change this sad and destructive reality by itself. His action, however, does wonderfully and most brightly underscore an educational moment, by showing how driven white Democrats, the mindless and otherwise angry and child-like woke, liberals of all colors, the sexually depraved, the Globalists, the anti-Christian, Christian clergy, and the mainstream media are to keep blacks and other minority groups reliable inhabitants on Democratic plantations where they feast on the debilitating intelligence-and-maturity limiting taxpayer-provided dole. All of this is so the plantations can be filled to the gills with anti-white hatred during four-year periods and then have their populace wheeled-out to elect people who will make sure the Democrats plantations of anti-white hate-cultivation will remain operative and successful in perpetuity.

Let us, for a moment, consider what Americans may encounter on the republic’s coming 250^th anniversary. Such a consideration, must all begin by recognizing the enormous damage that intentionally has been done to America via the utter failure of many of the members of country’s teaching profession, those icons of wokeness armed with outrageously expensive taxpayer support, federally mandated programs of sexual depravity for children, and guidance leading to tyranny. They have not given recent generations of students any semblance of the truth about our history.

At a starter, it is useful to note how few Americans or their media outlets called attention to the recent birthdays of three of the greatest Americans, Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. Each was barely mentioned in the media or anywhere else. How can this be? Well, students are not taught much about them, except that they must believe these men were despicable slave owners and, heaven forbid, white men. Indeed, there are few 20th century U.S. presidents who are remarked upon each year, when they are it usually only because of their birthday or for one of their achievements. Sadly, most presidents since 1898 are noted only for the unnecessary wars they start – usually in the name of the idiot idea of spreading democracy – and which end either clear defeats or pyrrhic victories. As they ended, those wars are disguised as victories by lying bureaucrats, presidents, generals, and the unfortunate but pervasive predilection of Americans to blindly worship their military, despite it having won a true victory since 1945.

The insipidness of “President’s Day”, however, certainly is in keeping with the consistently poor performance of almost all 20^th century American presidents; in that way, it is the perfect refuge for the shameful likes of Clinton, the Bushes, Obama and Biden. The fatuousness of President’s Day is convincingly powerful argument for annually honoring only those presidents who have actually led, built, or protected America and bumping the rest into a deep ditch, or least to take them down a peg or two by informing students about their great failures, such as the America’s participation in two world wars – really European Wars — that Wilson and FDR labored and lied to get America into; Truman’s tyrannical and illegal decision to take America to war in Korea without a declaration of war by Congress; and the other unconstitutional, because undeclared, wars in such places as Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, etc.

In sum, these events inevitably lead Americans to ask who is running the country? Sadly, the only possible answer is — “the President’ – and in Biden’s case an intentionally destructive and apparently depraved and half-dead man. Obviously, this speaks to the centralized tyranny that for multiple decades has been run by a president and that now passes for what is called democracy in the United States.

Americans are also faced with the costs of a forgotten or ignored reality, which is that the Founding Fathers never intended to create something brand new when creating of our national government. Their goal, as a few honest historians have written, is found in the definition of the term revolution as a phenomenon that travels a full circle. The Founders and their fellow British Americans fought a war, and after winning that struggle, toiled to establish a new republican government because the colonists had been deprived by the British king and his ministers of the British constitutional rights and the natural rights they were born with and brought with them to North America. As a result they lived under a growing the tyranny imposed on them by their King and his generals. In turn, the Constitution they created and ratified had zero intention of creating a democracy, which the founders knew would be, at most, the last rest stop on the road to tyranny. That fact that democracy is tyranny’s forerunner is confirmed by the centralized and nearly lawless authoritarian government which Americans live under today.

Likewise, the current child-hating leaders of the nation’s education system, operating under the diktats of the federal government’s soon-to-be eradicated Department of Education, has misinformed generations of students by refusing to teach them the basic truth that the United States was founded as Christian nation with the help of multiple, strong Christian leaders, sects, and the nearly unanimous support of the Founders and the general population. This is not to say that America was founded as a theocracy, nor that other faiths were not welcomed and gradually grew to be tolerated. It is, to say, however, that the United States – and its Constitution and laws – were and are meant to exist and operate as part of a Christian nation, and that the various Christian sects were to be left alone by the federal government to make their own way in the country. They certainly were not to be – as they are today – either harassed or denounced by the federal government or subverted by federal agencies through tax exemptions or by the outright bribery as we have seen in the roles played by corrupt and paid-off Catholic, Christian, and Jewish tax-exempt leaders and organizations. Leaders of each first abetted the Covid-gangsters to murder Americans, and then were richly rewarded to help flood the U.S. with many millions of illegal aliens. They also were key participants in the trafficking of more than 350,000 children – some reports say up to one million — into the United States only to disappear to work for contemporary slave-drivers or for the pleasure of the sexually depraved.

–In addition, teachers at all levels of education, must be required to stop teaching the fatuous idea that Constitution can be rightly identified and exploited as a “living document”, which really means that the federal government, the federal courts, and especially the Supreme helped to Court, the mass media, and the anti-Constitution lawyers produced by Ivy League law schools can, at will, twist, distort, and ignore the Constitution, American traditions, and the will of the people expressed in popular elections. This longstanding lie has now help to produce the centralized authoritarian national government and the many idiot laws that Americans live under today.

Since the early 20^th century, the Constitution has been turned into a full-service dispensing machine for those promoting overspending and tyranny. The domestic political enemies of America – a genuine rogues’ gallery of Wilson, FDR, Truman, Johnson, Clinton, the two Bushes, Obama, and Biden — simply put their demented desires into the machine and out rolls any decision they want, even if it makes a horse’s ass of our Constitution.

To drive this point home, there now must be widespread popular and resolute adult resistance to the argument that the U.S. Constitution requires major changes. Such changes would be the final straw for America, if a straw remains. What the Constitution needs is a full cleansing of many decades of crackpot court decisions; the elimination of the 26^th Amendment’s provision for voting at 18 years of age and return it to 21 years. This is a fair price to be  paid for the Democratic and Republican lunatics, the American teachers unions’ lunatics, and the inattentive or uninterested parents, who together have made most American 18-year olds into perennial anti-adults and the most ignorant, gullible, least experienced, lazy, non-commonsense, and under-educated American citizens who have ever lived.

Also needed is the redirection of the country’s law schools to again make them capable of producing lawyers whose goals are the preservation of the Constitution as written, and to enhance chances for its reliably fair application. Such a fix would begin to end the country’s rampant political subversion, societal and political mayhem, growing perversion, and the domination of half-baked law-school professors. It also would begin the mandatory process of educating future generations of students with the truth about the republic’s history, good and bad, rather than the deranged political, scientific, and social agendas that now dominate U.S. education.

Another deadly threat to the Constitution is found in a looming monster now just over the horizon. It is called the “Convention of States”. It is led by politicians, activists, lobbyists, and smarmy media personalities – some seemingly aligned with, if not beholden to foreign governments. The only product that could be produced by such a convention – given its sponsors, likely attendees, and  coverage by the mainstream media – is one that destroys what remains of the Founders’ Constitution and replaces it with a document that protects, empowers, and enriches America’s current amalgam of enemies, foreign, domestic, and those who are both.

The last, most obvious, and perhaps most important objection to the Convention of States is that there is no way to convene such a body and ensure that the attendees are all – like those at the Founders’ Convention – are Christians or at least attendees who recognize the indispensable role that Christianity plays in the optimal operation of the American republic. Indeed, a major reason for the faltering political, educational, and economic systems, as well as the nation’s social cohesion, has been the decades-long, federal government funded, led, and enforced attack – by federal and state judicial systems and the legacy media – on the prominence of Christianity in American life. This was in fact a reality from the arrival of the Puritans until the 1960s, when the Democrats’ deliberately descended into the pit of perpetual adolescence, began to take orders from the lamentable “hippies” and their spawn; and thereafter proceeded to make hating the republic, the Constitution, and all who opposed America them the required attributes of all loyal Democrats.

Since that development, the Democrats and a significant number of Republicans have cooperated to undermine Christianity’s key role in the success of American republicanism, both with attacks on Christian holidays, public prayer, and prayer in school, and, by the Democrats using their wholly owned teachers’ unions to make atheism  — at least in regard to Christianity — a leading theme of the education process. The federal government also has used the bribery of the Christian and Catholic clergies with tax exemptions and outright cash payments to achieve its ends. The former persuading the clergy to abandon its flocks by closing churches and supporting its lies during the sham and man-maid Covid pandemic, and, more recently, by delivering many tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish “humanitarian” organizations to help Biden’s gangsters bring millions of illegal aliens –especially children — into the United States. One or more of America’s non-Christian faiths also seem to be eager to support neutering the neutering 1^st Amendment by reclassifying as crimes the legitimate written and vocal criticism, the questioning, and, when necessary, the justifiable denouncing of the federal government’s favored portions of the populace. Such a passage in the document produced by the Convention of States surely would please some domestic American malcontents and non-Christians, as well as several foreign countries and governments – usually falsely identified as U.S. “allies” — but it assuredly would mark the Convention’s completed document as a clearly fatal pill to our Constitution, laws, and society, one meriting only burial in very deep and eternally sealed grave.

Mr. President:

I have watched your performance in foreign policy since your inauguration and find that your 4-year hiatus has not improved your understanding of the utter fecklessness of involving the United States ever deeper into the ongoing wars in the Middle East. You and virtually every one of your cabinet appointees have likewise made it explicitly clear that the only thing America fights for in the Middle East is Israel. Sir, wars in that region that will continue so long as Israel exists and deliberately continues to fuel Muslim hatred with its violence, geographical expansion, and ready access to the U.S. Treasury. You seem to be impervious to the fact that we have been roundly and repeatedly defeated in the Middle East by both sects of Islam, Sunnis and Shia. The United States military has never won anything in the post-1945 Middle East except Muslim hatred, a history of wantonly killing Muslim civilians, and a reputation for backing any and all Israeli attacks on Islamists, Iranians, Palestinians and Lebanese, and the populations of Muslim civilians attendant to both sects.

As you know, Mr. President, U.S. forces have been unceremoniously booted out of multiple Middle East states, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and, soon Syria. Indeed, it also has met more than its match in most of the Muslim countries in which it has intervened. Why? The reasons are numerous. One is incompetent and/or left-wing flag officers. General Petraeus (ret’d) is a fine example.Petraeus is a general who lost the Afghan and Iraq wars, then was first rewarded with the post of CIA director and, more recently, spent the past year as a democrat shill, repeatedly claiming – that is lying — that Ukraine was on verge of defeating Russia. Petraeus is so bad that he seems like the second coming of FOX’s General Jack Keane (ret’d), who spent two decades lying to Americans that there was light at the end of the always pitch-black Afghan tunnel.

Then there is the complete failure of any White House, DoD, CIA, NSA, or DHS Intelligence leader, or their lieutenants, to bother to read the words of mujahedin leaders – especially Osama bin Laden – and thereby begin to understand and believe what the Islamists are after, and how they plan to get it. Just as U.S. flag officers ignored General Giap’s words during the Vietnam War, today’s officers and their senior intelligence counterparts have never seriously listened to their Islamist foes. Instead, on the orders of an even dumber presidents, they went to war with no reliable knowledge of their enemies, lost those wars, and returned home disgraced. Astoundingly, however, they were welcomed as heroes by the politicians and media, as well as by the weapons-industry , and by a good part of the citizenry. The gun-makers, of course, do not care who wins or loses wars as they get paid in either event. The citizens who applaud an always losing military need to nurse their intellect to the point that it recognizes the enormous difference between winning and losing, especially on the point of wasting the lives of their soldier-children

It seems, Sir, that the reliable military failure of American forces is baked into the way they are built. The overwhelming priority and super-hero propaganda afforded U.S. Special Forces is a surefire way of losing every war we fight against the mujahedin, who in many ways are much better at performing as special forces because they understand – perhaps intuitively – that victory in insurgencies comes from breaking your opponents’ collective will to endure endless embarrassment and bloodshed, which the mujahedin did to U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Special Forces are designed to work on the periphery of war and not to be used and depended on as a country’s main force. Assassination of key enemy leaders, hit-and-run raids, infrastructure destruction, ambushes, tasks for skilled snipers, intelligence collection, and many other tasks rightly fall to special forces. The task of winning a war, however, is never in their purview. They and other Western special forces have proven – at least against the mujahedin – that they are not competent to do so. Main force that is empowered to be as violent as necessary to end wars as quickly as possible is the kind of military that wins necessary wars. The unquestionable skill and bravery of special forces – perhaps negatively tempered by their arrogance and inflated self-importance – are not war winners. They are, rather, vital players on the periphery of war, as were, their predecessors, men who were once called commandos. The main difference in their performances are that the former help to lose every unnecessary U.S. war since 1960, whine publicly about various issues in retirement, and still have the nerve to strut around like peacocks. The commandos simply marched, did their jobs, and kept their views to themselves, and played roles that complemented main force-actions and so helped to win wars.

On foreign affairs, Mr. President, the creation of a sound and enduring foreign policy is not a tough nut for an American to crack. It is built on the basis of experience, history, reality, commonsense, and the Constitution. The combination of these inputs yield four necessary foreign-policy tenets: (1.) non-intervention, (2.) neutrality, (3.) maintaining a military second to none, and (4.) the cultivation of the freest possible trade via agreements or treaties that contain no political or military commitments than can be triggered to automatically include U.S. participation by the other signatory’s problems, as in NATO. This was the plan of our Founders, and served America with distinction until our presidents, first with Polk and then from Wilson forward – including yourself – became unconstitutional war lords. To correct this clearly dilatory situation you must accept and adhere to three following simple facts.

–A.) You are the president of the United States and you have no constitutional responsibility for the security of other nations or peoples. The only allies America needs were given to it by God, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and – until you decided to begin wrecking the arrangement — the nation of Canada to our north. You likewise have zero constitutional responsibility – and you and your predecessors personal, religious, political, financial or emotional considerations are of no importance – for protecting Israel or for the security of the NATO nations, save Canada. In NATO, Britain, with the eager assistance of two traitorous and Anglophile presidents named Wilson and Roosevelt, sucked us into two unnecessary wars – 1914-1918 and 1941-1945. All told,  our close relationship with Britain since 1914 has been like deliberately sleeping  with plague-carrying vermin. The rest of the NATO members are simply along for the ride and, like Britain, are eager to get their arms wrapped around U.S. taxpayer dollars to cut their own defense costs. The NATO governments, again including Britain, and this time, Canada, are waging wars against their native-born populations, especially whites; annihilating the EU’s representative democracies and free speech (they already have or are in the process of fully disarming their populations) in the EU; and seem irredeemably drunk on the issue of wanting war with Russia.

–B.) As president of the United states, Sir, you have zero constitutional, divine, or commonsensical responsibility for either defending democracy – except, in your own country – or for pursuing an aggressive and militaristic foreign policy in the name of spreading democracy internationally. This deranged mission has been the key-component of most presidents’ foreign policy since 1898, and as such has brought forth almost no new and sound democracies anywhere; caused dozens of unnecessary and always lost U.S. wars; killed, wounded, maimed, or mentally deranged hundreds of thousands of Americans; cost American taxpayers ridiculous sums of money, as well as their children’s lives; created a world in which America has few if any friends; and, as war always does, has fostered the centralization of most political power in our corrupt federal government, greatly eroded the civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and has spurred and fueled the bureaucratic Leviathan  and the ferocious deep-state domination and cruelty that you, as president, are now commendably trying to forever shatter. Since 1789, America has never had a need for “allies” whom we must, by treaty-arrangement, rescue from wars and economic calamities of their own making. America’s partnering in such treaties can never be described as anything but a fool’s errand, and, as  it is popular to say today, the receipts for the idiocy of concluding such moronic associations are close at hand, and they are drenched in our children’s blood and the unending pain it leaves in the hearts of their families and many other Americans.

–C.) Finally, Mr. President, the constitutional key to drafting, executing, and maintaining the above-noted foreign policy is for you to absolutely renounce the idea that you can take this republic to war on the basis of your status as head of the Executive Branch. Your unnecessary, ill-considered, and eventually-to-be-lost war against the Houthis and their Islamist allies is a perfect example of an unconstitutional presidential war. All presidents since Truman have behaved in this manner and the history of those years is crowded with unnecessary and always lost wars, federal government corruption, the centralization of political power, and, naturally, tyranny. Mr. President you have no such constitutional power, though you are pretending to today  in the Middle East on the farcical and insane basis of protecting one of America’s greatest and most maliciously flamboyant enemies, Israel. Under the Constitution, only the U.S. Congress can declare the United States to be at war, any kind of war. Until that declaration is passed by the majority of both Houses, there is no war. Moreover, the Congress has absolutely zero constitutional power to delegate their sole responsibility to declare war to the president so that  the U.S. military can be used by the president to wage war off his own hook. The idea that the Congress’s “Authorization for the Use of Military Force” legally delegates its war-declaring power to the president is a rank nonsense. It is patently unconstitutional and is a despicable political ploy that those elected mountebanks designed to relieve a cowardly Congress from making such a decision, thereby leaving every member of the House and Senate free to cheer the president if the resulting war is won, or attack him with gusto if the war-effort goes belly up. Needless to say, the denizens of Congress have not had a legitimate  chance to cheer since 1945.

So, Mr. President, please think about the foregoing, and especially consider speaking publicly — and soon — to the American people and, as important, to the Congress, and explain to them that a U.S. president never has a legitimate constitutional power to take the republic to war on his order, save perhaps in the case of a surprise attack or invasion. though even the devious, war-wanting, and power-hungry FDR waited for a congressional declaration of war after the Japanese attack. Wars, Mr. President, are the source of the demise of many countries. America’s current run of seventy-years of lost wars must be stopped if the republic is to survive. If you want your presidency to be recalled fondly and proudly, force the U.S.-making of war back into its proper constitutional channel, and thereafter begin to reinstall the Founders’ foreign policy approach, which is the only one in our republic’s nearly 250-year history which has produced enduring peace, as well the prosperity and domestic tranquility that so often accompany peace.

This entry marks the first time I have published in this space the notes [with typos corrected] I prepared to accompany an episode of the Two Mikes’ podcast. I am doing so because I can think of nothing better to make the point that the American government’s relationship with Israel is an ongoing and accelerating disaster for the republic, its future, and its citizens, The news this morning proves this point yet again as President Trump urges actions against the 1st Amendment to quiet people rhetorically opposing Israel’s savage and U.S. funded-and equipped war against Palestinian civilians, and then thunders “warnings” to the Palestinians that he will help Netanyahu and his colleagues wipe every last Palestinian from the face of the earth. (NB: Here I am talking about speech, an peaceful marching, not such clear and punishable illegalities as occupying buildings, blocking roads, or destroying property). On this position, Trump is supported by all members of the Congress and Senate, the bulk of the federal bureaucracy, most senior U.S. intelligence officials, flag officers, most sate governors, all the mainstream media, and far to many of the of the major alternative media programs.

Why? Well the answer is simple, they long have been the creatures of Israel and its Jewish and non-Jewish American supporters. The basic and irrefutable fact is that the United States government, and two-thirds of the state governments, have been suborned and so compromised by foreign forces — Israel itself, Israeli-related politicians and billionaires, and their media, business, and academic sycophants in the United States. The annihilation of  Palestine and Palestinians also been steadily supported by shocking numbers of Evangelical Christians, whom, it seems, puts Israel first, and leaves God and his commandments to take the hindmost.

Trump keeps pledging the annihilation Palestine and its people –via-Israel-and-U.S. weaponry — in a war which always has been irrelevant to U.S. national security, one that should be ignored by Washington, and left to sort itself out. Please read the following and listen to the 1967 experience of a U.S. sailor and the 299 other members of the USS Liberty’s crew as they were butchered by the Israeli navy and air forces, while Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and President Lyndon Johnson ordered the nearby U.S. aircraft carriers not to send air support to the USS Liberty, thereby leaving her to her fate.

Its worth noting that every president, every Congressman, event Senator, every Secretary of Defense, every State Governor, every CIA and NSA Director, every secretary of the Navy, and every other flag officer from the presidencies of Johnson-through-Trump have — for 58 years — refused to reveal the truth about Israel’s deliberate massacre of the USS Liberty, instead claiming the attack was a “mistake”. The answer to this foul cover-up is to press Trump’s administration to release all papers related to the deliberate Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, as well as the papers that are still suppressed in the U.S. Archives dealing with the 9-11 attack and Franklin Roosevelt’s role in baiting Japan to stage an attack on U.S. military bases in the Pacific as the means not only ensure war with Japan, but as an event would help him get the United States into the European war, an action which most Americans still opposed on 7 December 1941. Pearl Harbor and Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States, gave FDR his chance to create a base which thereafter stupidly tied America to Europe until this day, although the steady crumbling of NATO , the UN, and the EU gives all Americans hope that they will soon have a much more non-interventionist foreign policy.

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Today  (4 March 2025), on The Two Mikes, Colonel Mike, Dr. Mike, and Jack Maxey had the great honor of speaking to one of the survivors — Mr. Phil Tourney — of the pre-planned and extraordinarily vicious Israeli air force and naval attack on the U.S. Navy’s communications ship, the USS Liberty in June, 1967. The ship carried a crew of 300 sailors, Marines, and NSA and CIA language experts. At the time of the Israeli attack, the USS Liberty was the world’s most modern communications ship. Following is Mr. Tourney’s story of the attack, much of which has been supported by communications reports declassified by the National Security Agency (NSA).

On the afternoon of 8 June 1967, the USS Liberty was sailing slowly about 12.5 miles off the Sinai Peninsula – clearly in international waters – when its lookouts and radars picked out the presence of Israeli scout planes repeatedly flying around the ship, giving the ship’s crew a clear view of the blue Israeli star on the wings and sides of the aircraft. Shortly after the scout planes departed, Blue-starred Israeli fighters appeared and began to attack the ship with machine guns, bombs, rockets, and napalm. The attack was highly destructive, and successfully destroyed every antenna on the ship, save for one. Such a success rate, of course, is more than ample evidence that the Israel’s slaughtering attack was well planned. The premeditated Israeli attack lasted nearly 30 minutes.

Shortly after those Israeli war planes departed, five Israeli motor-torpedo boats attacked the Liberty, hitting it with one Israeli torpedo that blew a forty-foot-by-forty-foot hole in the hull of the ship at the point where it shielded the communications quarters, immediately killing many sailors and language experts. The motor-torpedo boats also shot the ship’s deployed lifeboats out of the water, with the exception of one that they Israelis took home as trophy. Overall, the deliberate Israeli attacks on the ship killed 34 members of the Liberty’s crew, and wounded 174 more – all Americans — a total that was more than two-thirds of the ship’s crew.

We asked Mr. Tourney why other U.S. naval ships in the region did not come to the aid of the Liberty? He responded that the Liberty notified all U.S. Navy vessels in the vicinity were notified of the attack, and almost immediately the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched aircraft to try and save the Liberty. Before they could reach the Liberty, however, the Saratoga recalled the aircraft under the orders of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara . The order from him was “do not help Liberty, return to base”. Shortly thereafter, the commanders of the Saratoga and the nearby aircraft carrier America again sent fighters to assist the Liberty. The Commanders of both ships would not accept another order from McNamara, and said that another stand-down order “would have to come for higher authority”. Before the U.S. fighters could get to the Liberty, President Lyndon Johnson personally recalled the planes. The entire story of the deliberate failure to get help to the Liberty – especially the immediate availability of the Secretary of Defense and the President to intervene on Israel’s behalf – surely suggests that both men and their Washington-based admirals knew the Israeli attack on the Liberty was planned. Indeed, Mr. Tourney said that he has learned from others and from intelligence documents that U.S. Strategic Air Command bombers were in the air heading toward Cairo to attack in support of Israel’s then ongoing war with Egypt. That attack apparently was cancelled due to the deliberate Israeli attack on the USS Liberty.

The Liberty eventually received post-attack U.S. Naval assistance and was ordered to sail to the harbor in Crete, though getting there was a much longer voyage  than to the nearby port of Malta. While in Crete, the Liberty’s surviving crew members were exhaustively debriefed by an Admiral who was also a lawyer. During the sessions, the Admiral had been told by the survivors that they saw and experienced, namely a deliberate Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, and added that their experience foreclosed any claim that the Israeli attack could be seen as a mistake or accident. At that point the Admiral concluded the session and told the sailors that if anything they had told him was told to the media or otherwise made public, the sailor or sailors doing the telling would be “sent to prison or worse”.

It seems clear that the USS Liberty and its crew were set up for an attack via Israeli-U.S. cooperation on an operation that saw Israel’s air and naval forces do their best to sink the Liberty and kill all its crew. To this day, the U.S. government and military continue to claim that the Israeli attack was a “mistake”, these apparent liars have yet to tell the truth and to provide full honors to the Liberty and her crew for their heroic but unaided performance during the Israeli attack.

Currently there are less than 50 survivors of the Liberty’s, June, 1967 crew. On the weekend of 6-8 June 2025, many of them will gather in Norfolk, Virginia, at the Sheraton Inn, for their annual remembrance of the Israeli slaughter of their fellow crewman and to discuss the truth of an issue that the U.S. government wants to remain buried forever. With the assistance of VFW Post 4809 (Norfolk, VA), the attendees will honor their fallen colleagues and discuss many the facets of the attack. The public is welcome to attend, listen, ask questions, and learn. Perhaps President Trump, Secretary Hegseth, and the CIA and NSA directors might spare some time to hear the truth about the murderous, 8 June, 1967, behavior of the country they endlessly identify as “our best ally.’’

Given the relatively few remaining survivors of the Liberty’s crew, the survivors’ organization is always happy to receive donations from people interested in doing right by the ship and crew that were attacked by Israel, with what surely appears to be the approval of President Johnson. If you would like to make a donation to these American heroes, your gift can be sent to the group’s website, https://ussliberty.org/ or to the USS Liberty Veterans Association, Attn: Moe Shafer, PO Box 3000, Pawley’s Island, SC 29585

They say the more things change, the more they stay the same. This certainly is not true across Trump’s cabinet and government, but suddenly AG Bondi came forward with her best Merrick Garland – and perhaps Trumpian? — voice and decries the supposedly great increase in anti-Semitism in the United States and the need to take aggressive action to smash this terrible speech-scourge. The cost of eradicating what she considers a threat to the republic is, as it always is, to  ignore the Constitution and Bill of Rights and make them dead letters.

Now, if Ms. Bondi has any genuine experience in the real world of working Americans – that is non-bureaucrats – she knows that the speech of work-a-day Americans can be rough, derogatory, cuss-filled, and often peppered with the kind of words she and her kind regard as punishable violations of law due to their inability to cope with the hard fact that the 1^st Amendment – like the 2^nd, 4^th, and 10^th, at least – are absolutes. Each is clear to every American drawing breath, working for a living, and not on the lifelong dole. Most Americans need no modernized, airy-fairy misinterpretation of the Constitution and its first 10 amendments of the kind always on offer by politicians, lawyers, bureaucrats, professors, journalists, war-lovers, movie stars, retired flag officers, all individuals whom, in one way or another, have been or are now on the take from organizations bent on killing the Constitution by killing the 1^st Amendment and the 2^nd Amendment, the latter of course, is the only reliable defense of all of the liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

But even the reputedly well-educated and conservative Ms. Bondi cannot let the constitutionally definitive original wording of the 1^st Amendment stand, she with the others who want to destroy the republic believe the fashionable horse-shit that claims the Constitution as a “living document” that can be grotesquely twisted in anyway necessary to make the already over-centralized federal government into an even bigger tyranny.

Ms. Bondi has now raised her favorite flag, the one carrying not the stars and stripes but rather the bywords of all American politicians in both parties, namely Israel First. Filled with worry and fret, but with eyes gleaming over the thought of the Jewish-American funds that will come her way as a consequence of declaring the annihilation of anti-Semitism to be a “major” issue for America and Americans, and because she will start and lead the republic’s battle against what her ridiculous words suggest is the terrible threat that anti-Semitism poses not only to Jews but also to the republic’s well-being and security.

Not so, the threat that angry, nasty, or cruel words about Jewish people or Israel pose is the threat that U.S. politicians who would have to live on their salaries, without the wages-of-treason that reliably flow so long as they are on the take from AIPAC, the ADL, and Jewish-American billionaires.

Blinded by such a clear, nearly mad delusion, how will Ms. Bondi proceed? No sweat on that score, she will simply use the framework built by the Biden Administration, the completely corrupted FBI – and let us hear no more lying drivel claiming it is only corrupt leaders on the “seventh floor” – and its allies and employees at the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the gang of Jewish-American billionaires who rushed to kill the 1^st Amendment and the universities they once bragged about supporting by paying for “distinguished professors” to teach Marxism, Multiculturalism, Communism, anti-white racism, Socialism, gender madness, and, most of all, anti-Americanism. But when American students had the audacity to demonstrate against what appeared to all who were not wearing pirates’ patches over both eyes, or on the take from Jewish-American organizations, to be Israel’s deliberate massacre of Palestinian civilians in preparation for stealing what is left of their land, a new war was ignited against the 1st Amendment.

Ms. Bondi will use Biden’s kill-the-1^st-Amendment framework and direct the corrupt core of federal agencies — FBI, DHS, DOJ, ATF, IRS, – and their silent but key allies at CIA and NSA – to exploit the so-called “intelligence” the ADL and the SPLC  gathered – while on the payroll of the Biden’s government – to go after all Americans who oppose the Democrats; say a negative word about Israel or Jews; are devoted Catholics;  people who oppose abortion own weapons, or support Trump and conservatism; Blacks who opposed Biden’s authoritarianism and life on his plantations; all Americans who opposed open borders; the foes of indoctrinating their children on the glories of sexual depravity and DEI, and all Americans who ache for the trial and lethal punishment of Bill Gates, many state and federal politicians, Biden’s puppet masters, the bosses of Big Pharma, the AMA, and the senior federal health officials who lied to Trump about the pandemic; and all of the legacy media, including FOX,  for the deaths, crippling, and general economic destruction caused by the lethal vaccines that deliberately were used to murder so many tens of thousands of Americans. (NB: As an aside, I cannot understand why Trump has never had the courage to apologize to Americans, explain that he got slicked by Fauci, Birks, his own cabinet, and many other senior federal health bureaucrats, and that he now intends to make them pay for their mass-murdering crimes. Pride goeth …)

Yep, Ms. Bondi inherited all of this data from Biden’s fascists, and when using it in defense of the politicians’ dole from AIPAC, Israel, and wealthy Jewish-Americans and their organizations,  she, her lieutenants, and the media will never stop spewing about the “righteous cause of ending anti-Semitism” and the need to stop people from saying nasty words about Israel and Jews – even if it means neutering the Constitution – as well as Israel’s suborned, slave-like allies in Congress, the Senate, the military, the federal and state bureaucracies, the federal judiciary, the media, Hollywood, and an assortment of other compromised and perhaps traitorous U.S. organizations.

If Ms. Bondi’s intentions regarding anti-Semitism are evidence of what “Making America Great Again” is all about, it tends to suggests that American ‘greatness” only exists if it continues to do the bidding, funding, and arming of Israel, while controlling the speech of those obviously despicable and traitorous American citizens who believe that the U.S. relationship with Israel is built mainly on the wishes of Israel and its U.S-citizen coreligionists and their amazing, almost magical, ability to suborn as slaves to its interests so many American presidents, governors, senators, generals, journalists etc. etc.,

In sum, Ms. Bondi’s anti-Semitism campaign, if successful, means three things are certain: (a.) the crippling of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill or Rights; (b.) endless U.S. funded and probably fought wars for Israel in the Middle East; and (c) the sickening, but side-splittingly comical image of the North American continent being pulled along via a ring through its nose by an oversized Middle East sandbox run by arrogant and criminal politicians, Bolsheviks, Christian-haters, and the owners of the world’s largest begging bowl. This image, of course, will get the most laughter from Israeli Firsters in America and the war-lover Netanyahu and his pals in Israel. And, to be fair, who would not laugh over an image of the United States being led helplessly toward hell by a modern set of vicious and venomous Lilliputians.

—An afterthought: Just a reflection after yesterday’s fancy public release of nothing new about Epstein’s operation and its criminal legacy. Might Ms. Bondi’s fixation on supposedly rife U.S. anti-Semitism be based on the need for a diversion after she has found that the papers  Epstein and the JFK and RFK assassinations can never be released because of some – or perhaps more than some – involvement of our sainted Israeli ally in all three crimes. No surprise on the Epstein matter, as no American would be surprised if Mossad, Mi6, FBI, Shin Bet, and CIA were the key supporters of Epstein. But too few Americans, however, recall that the Kennedy brothers were both far from eager to see Israel obtain nuclear weapons. Is it time, Ms. Bondi, to edit out much of the truth in the papers whose release you control? Is that why you have said you intend to release “some” of the materials.  Or will you now mark time and allow some renegade employees to shred them and then set up the shredders for breaking the law? That would be a nice way to bury the issue by explaining the documents have been destroyed and blame the action on Biden and his loyal band of U.S. Intelligence Community gangsters, and those you and the FBI set up to take the fall. The whole business probably would give the Trump Administration a rough ride for a month or two, but the action would kill four birds with one stone  (a) Epstein and his crimes would gradually fade into a disgusting memory, (b) the participation of the U.S., British, and Israeli intelligence services would remain undocumented, (c) the Trump Administration and the bilateral political elite would keep getting their paychecks from Israel and its supporters; and (d) with Israel off the Epstein hook, Attorney General Bondi can fire-up her campaign to fulfill her Garland-like goal of destroying the 1st Amendment via waging a war against the non existent threat of anti-Semitism in the United States

As a whole, Trump’s government, in this short period, has been remarkable in its accomplishments, as well as in Trump’s ability to stay on course at home with the domestic aspects of an American First policy. The discoveries Elon Musk’s crew have made in USAID have been – to say the least – shocking. The organization’s laundering of many billions of dollars through its network of NGO beneficiaries and other organizations and governments and then back to the federal bureaucracy for distribution to Democrats of all kinds and senior federal bureaucrats, as well as some Republicans. Naturally, the Clinton family seems to have been a regular recipient of this graft in exceedingly large dollar amounts. There are also reports that Obama used USAID for laundering CIA money bound for overthrowing foreign governments, starting wars, and other nefarious activities. The laundered money also went to American Catholic charitable organizations which, in turn, responded by helping illegal aliens evade the law and enter the country, they also seem to have helped “disappear” the 350,000 children brought into the country by illegals that cannot be located. It’s also is precisely what this globalist, satanic, and intensely anti-American Pope and his money-hungry minions had coming to them. That’s some record of serving God, don’t you think? But just what you would expect from a South American communist. (NB: Some truth in advertising, I’m a life-long Roman Catholic)

 Trump also has lit another fire under the initiation and acceleration of his plan to get all the illegals out of America. This process will take time, but will be immediately helped by the surprisingly fast pace at which the border wall is being completed. As getting rid of illegal aliens continues, Trump – on the basis of Musk’s findings – already has eliminated several hundred thousand federal workers, although reporting suggests the process of removing these lazy tax-eaters has a long way to go.

The nagging question that remains regarding these domestic actions lies in the fact that while Trump’s people have uncovered enormous criminal waste and other forms of corruption – apparently running into the many billions of dollars — there has yet to be a single indictment. Without indictments, trials, and convictions, Musk and his staff have provided a much-needed, good, and informative show, but as of yet there is no guarantee that this government-wide, is to be terminated. Without a large number of these money-laundering operatives, elected grifters, and slavishly obedient bureaucratic place-holders being indicted and tried, the scum so far identified will fade into invisibility and then return when next the Democrats are in power. Oh, yes, also high on Trump’s agenda must be ending taxpayer funding for NGOs. The Congress, too, must be demanded to pass laws ending the delivery of taxpayer money to any religious group in America – Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, or any other faith – not only because they have broken the law but, perhaps more important, to reestablish the separation of church and state. The Democrats, always two-faced bastards, have long used this feature of the Constitution to kill faith in America, but now we are finding out that they simply wanted to turn these avaricious NGOs for criminal and anti-faith uses by providing faith organizations with tax exemptions and favoring faith-based and fully-bribed NGO’s as tools for bringing the republic to its knees. The country’s pastors and leading church officials already have dug themselves into a deep hole by making churches unavailable to believers during the Covid dictatorship, Mr. Musk also should look for graft on that score, he will find it. Now we find these entities have long been digging away in their hole of iniquity in return for vast taxpayer-provided payoffs to aid illegal aliens and help the Democrats make 350,000 children disappear.

Trump’s supposed America First foreign policy, on the other hand, makes almost no sense, unless the name of his game is bluff. What can you possibly say about Trump’s understanding of non-intervention. Does non-interventionism include clearing Palestine of all Palestinians and making it into a new playground for his son-in law and the rich? The answer is none. Does it mean starting a war with Iran because Israel and their Congressional lackeys demand it. What possible U.S. national-security interest is at risk because of Palestinians living in Palestine? If the Israelis face such a risk, they constructed and nourished it over the past 80 years. What would happen if we engineered such a Palestinian removal, which it seems fair to say, sounds like a plan thought up by a former CIA officer, who also is said to have been a pal of John Bolton? This man also was an expert on and a fan/supporter of the United Nations, which may explain Trump’s absurdly enthusiastic and completely ahistorical support for the UN’s “great potential”. No world government organization has any potential but for war, graft, waste, and anti-Americanism. Americans knew that it 1918-1919 and some heroic and commonsense Republican senators kept us out of the League of Nations. They knew what “America First” meant and fought to the death against that bastard Woodrow Wilson to entrench it in the mind of America.

Anyway, if there is a better measure than the ludicrous Palestinian Plan to draw America into another land war in the Middle East, I cannot identify it. We have lost wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and will soon lose another pair in Syria and Jordan. How many dozens of these results can the republic stand? Clearly, we do not need such wars, but Israel does and therein lies the big question: Is Trump an American First president or is he most happy when he is shilling for the Israelis and selling them 2,000 pound bombs that Israeli government will use to kill Palestinian civilians and steal land in the name of Greater Israel. If Trump wanted an American First foreign policy in the Middle East, he would leave Israel free to do whatever it wants in its region, but then cut off all kinds of U.S. aid to that country, whether traditionally given above-board or surreptitiously. His next, and equally important action, is to send the new FBI Director and Attorney General on a mission to detect, remove, and arrest Israel’s operatives – Israeli, Jewish-American, and American — within the federal bureaucracy, the intelligence community, and the U.S. military. Then, afterwards, force AIPAC, the ADL, and the SPLC to register as agents of a foreign power, and then investigate them – and their pals at the FBI and DHS – for gathering data on Conservatives, Catholics, gun owners, Trump supporters, patriots, etc. for the purpose of eventually rounding them up and imprisoning them. Finally, and on his own part, Trump must also speak directly to Americans and guarantee them that, notwithstanding his ocean of Jewish-American campaign funding, his will fight and stop the plan to adopt as federal law a measure making anti-Semitic speech a criminal offense. That plan, of course, is mad, fascistic, and utterly unconstitutional, and it must be  forever eliminated from the domestic political agenda in one way or another.

Finally, while most Americans rejoice at the fact that Trump is building the border wall and giving the illegals the boot, his apparent intention to engage U.S. military land forces in a campaign inside Mexico to destroy the Mexican cartels comes with an attendant set of dangers. All Americans – especially families with relations in the U.S. military — should remember that the Mexican cartels are large, powerful, wealthy, well-armed, vicious, and are deeply rooted in Mexican and increasingly American society. They are likewise entrenched within the Mexican national and state governments, and the law-enforcement agencies of both. Also, worth recalling is that a good deal of Mexican territory resembles that of Afghanistan, giving its cartel defenders some of the same advantages enjoyed by the Taliban when they fought and defeated U.S. forces. Though America is cursed with a military that cannot win wars, much can be accomplished against the cartels with air-power, limited special forces raids, and a perhaps a blockade of several of Mexico’s Pacific ports, but the entry of large U.S. ground forces into Mexico might well create precisely the same kind of “cakewalk” as Americans saw in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Years ago, while working at CIA, I was surprised to find out the Agency and other intelligence agencies were sending officers deemed to hold promise for service in top Intelligence Community positions to elite U.S. universities for various periods of time. The Pentagon also was sending those headed for service as flag officers in the military services for such educational experiences.

Where are these men and women being sent for this experience? Well these candidates for top-level promotions are sent to Harvard, other Ivy League schools, and other highly related universities outside the northeast. Really, my reaction was less surprise, than it was anger that taxpayer money was being be used by the Intelligence Community and the Pentagon to send their best and brightest to the greatest and most poisonous hives of anti-Americanism, schools that proudly play a leading role in inculcating republic-killing ideas into those they teach, starting with multiculturalism — teaching the insanity that the more divided a nation is, the stronger it is – as well as other ridiculous ahistorical ideas, including anti-white racism, the Civil war was fought to free slaves and not to defeat the South’s legitimate war for independence, that American Indians were non-violent, peace lovers, that the world would be a better place if governments could sensor speech and publications, and that the lives of U.S. soldiers, Marines, flyers, and sailors should be joyously spent for the honor of making the world more like America, though it currently is the home of rampant political corruption, female authoritarianism, fascism, thirst for blood, fast-spreading sexual depravity, and more than 300,000 missing children due to Biden’s open borders.

What has been the influence of preparing our men and women bound for flag-officer rank at our leading universities? It is admittedly hard to tell. I am sure, however, that those destined for one or more stars could not find a way to flunk out of their elite-school assignment. Likewise, such schools are unlikely to be presenting tough classes that would risk such negative outcomes and, not incidentally, halt the hefty flow of federal funds to the elite schools. These schools, of course, do not specialize in quality education, rather they specialize in making profits to expand their already enormous endowments and  to adbance their campaigns to destroy the American republic.

there appears to be some evidence showing this educational scheme may be creating a corps of flag officers who, after their semester or academic-year schooling, are less professional military leaders than they were before they matriculated. Certainly, it is evident that the experience has helped to move much of the U.S. general officer corps in an increasingly anti-American, woke, insubordinate, and partisan political direction. Their public words, spoken and in print, during the recent presidential campaign is irrefutable evidence of that decline. Ditto for the fifty senior intelligence officers, and their master Anthony Blinken, who falsely assigned the Hunter Biden laptop to the realm of Russian covert action in order to prevent Trump winning the 2020 election. It also is safe to assume that the senior Intelligence Community officers who have been dipped in the Ivy League’s pot of aggressive anti-Americanism and wokism, have gained nothing that strengthens their capabilities from an educational experience having little, if anything, to do with the way world actually works.

Instead, these grandees from both the intelligence and the military communities return to work as perpetual adolescents, generals who madly believe the Ivy League drivel they were taught, and so think they can reshape the world in whatever is the image-of-the-day that, the politicians, and the media favor. That remaking, of course, must always be based on a using the tools of military power and war, but both used only aggressively enough to ensure America always loses the interventionists wars that presidents starts or enter, but never intend to win. No American alive today has ever heard from an American flag officer or senior Intelligence officer who has been on the winning side of a post-1945 U.S. interventionist war, with the exception of those CIA intelligence officers who aided the Afghans’ defeat of the Red Army, and a goodly number of those men and women were the Agency’s superb and always under-celebrated Logisticians

As noted, U.S. generals have lost all the unconstitutional interventionist wars their presidents have tasked them to win since Japan’s surrender. Mired in this endless failure, they have been, amazingly, treated as gods on earth. From dawn to dusk, they have been fawned over by presidents, the public, the Congress, the federal government, the media, and the arms-makers. With none of the fawners ever have the commonsense or courage to ask the generals why they are the proud owners of a losing streak equal in years to those once held by the Red Sox and Cubs. Today, more than ever, these flag-officers stand out as the unserious, modestly talented, and genuinely hapless individuals and have proven on the battlefield.

There are a number ways to bring these political generals to book: early retirements, investigations into their crystal-clear incompetence, and military-law punishment for out-of-line political activities, etc. One other key and commonsense way to do so is to keep military officers ear-marked for a future star as far away as possible from an assignment — at taxpayers’ expense — to Ivy League and other elite U.S. universities, and thereby the Marxist and anti-republican agendas those schools use to seek the destruction of the republic, its Constitution, and the U.S. military and intelligence communities.

It is harder to know what to do about those post-Ivy League intelligence officers bound for top Intelligence Community positions. The CIA, for example, has been staffed by a large number of Ivy-League graduates since its inception. As is to be expected, those graduates hire more of their kind and over the course of the Agency’s existence their arrogant, elitist, and anti-American style of thinking, strenthened in them by their universities, have been transferred to Langley. One only needs to recall, first, the Agency’s always gung-ho readiness for unnecessary and always lost interventionist wars, its willingness to ignore the law to please and secure the protection of their budget providers, and, for at least the past two decades, their utterly disgraceful and illegal eagerness to avoid protecting Americans as they, instead, arduously labor to destroy the U.S. Constitution and help the FBI harass, defame, and probably incarcerate Americans on the orders of their various Ivy-League educated presidents and organizations that should be, but are not, designated as agents of foreign power.

This morning’s news reports about “terrorist” attacks in Las Vegas and New Orleans ought to cause Americans to stop and think about the costs of continuing to expand the U.S. position in the Muslim world and to allow Muslims – and all other foreigners — to enter this country illegally. The key to thinking about this situation can be found in the lies of two former presidents.

–The claim of Obama – and his half-wit and anti-American intelligence advisers Brennan and Clapper – that the killing of Osama bin Laden was the road’s end for Al-Qaeda. This was either a damned-lie or was spoken by men who knew nothing about militant Islam. I believe it was both. The day the U.S. killed Bin Laden was long after Al-Qaeda’s chief had clearly achieved — with the help of Allah and the military stupidity of U.S. flag officers — his main goal of creating a self-perpetuating jihad that would carry on after he, and even al-Qaeda, had gone to their reward in the hereafter.

–The claim of Trump – which has been rebroadcast often in the past hours – that the U.S. air campaign he waged, in cooperation with Russian air forces, against ISIS and al-Qaeda in Iraq wiped those groups out and closed the book on them also was a lie, although he was surrounded by senior U.S. military veterans, many of whom were working against him. In any event, he and his unfriendly advisers probably never had a clue about the nature, faith, and endurance of the Islamic fighters who beat their military butts like a drum in Afghanistan and Iraq. He and his generals hated them, but never bothered – they were Arab turban wearers, after all – to try to understand what the Islamists were up to or why they were up to it. Indeed, they and Obama’s gang rained abuse on those subordinates who urged them to wake up to the dangerous strategy and intentions of the Islamist enemy, as well as its determination, grit, and patience.

So, as Americans, we stand today on what might be a resurgence of Islamist fighting groups here in the United States. Why?

–a.) U.S. military forces have never defeated the Islamist militants in any war in which we have fought them, save the U.S.-Muslim war in the Philippines in the 2oth Century’s first decade. The Pentagon and its NATO allies are the very essence of “ignorant losers” when it comes to Islamist insurgencies, or the recent insurgent-like attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas, and Europe. These flag-officers are great at killing the innocent and the fighters, but they cannot or will not accurately analyze the Islamist enemy’s motivation, durability, and thinking processes. Nor are they capable of winning a war against an Islamist opponents, men who are armed with few or no whiz-bang super weapons, but are battle-hardened, driven by their faith, almost unbelievably patient, and armed by Biden with $86 billion of U.S. weaponry he donated to them in Afghanistan, with more money and guns flowing in from Arab leaders, private funders, Western intelligence agencies, and gun-runners operating out of Ukraine.

–b.) The survival of Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other Islamist insurgent groups has not only to do with America’s inability and unwillingness to defeat them, but with two other points as well. First, the sickening arrogance and stupidity that, since at least 1995, made U.S. and European political and military leaders uninterested in reading and understanding the spoken words the leaders of the worldwide Islamist movement. These men and women are even worse than those who failed, with calamitous results, to read Mein Kampf or listen to General Giap. Second, the operating assumption of the U.S. and Western intelligence services, as well as many presidents, generals, and prime ministers, and all members of Congress and Parliaments, is that if the Islamists are not attacking us, they are defeated, they have quit, or they were not as strong and durable as some reputed them to be. The only correct assumption about such a period of Islamist inactivity – short or prolonged – is one that says they are planning more war, praying for Allah’s approval, and deciding where and when to wage the fight, while knowing their enemies lose sight of them due to the lack of attacks, intellectual disinterest, and plain old sloth.

–c.) Americans also need to recall that Bin Laden explained in his speeches and written works, that al-Qaeda’s attacks outside Afghanistan were designed to bring the United States and its allies to commit their military forces to a land war in Afghanistan. He sid that foreign operations took too long to plan and train for, were very expensive, were hard to run securely, and often delivered not much more than glancing blows, as in East Africa and Yemen. The 9/11 raid, however, did the trick, and the U.S. and NATO militaries struck out for Afghanistan without a plan for what they had to to do, and then left twenty years later, running away like a chaotic bunch of grammar school girls confronted by a snake.

 Finally, noting two more aspects of Usama bin Ladin’s thinking is a good way to end. (d.) He did successfully entice the United States to accept his gracious invitation to come to Afghanistan and get thoroughly licked, and (e.) by all reporting, he never stopped praying to Allah that he, al-Qaeda, and all Islamist groups, would – through their prayers and actions – prove themselves worthy of his support in driving the Americans and their allies from the Muslim world, particularly the Middle East. Naturally, no one knows the workings of the divine mind. It ought to be said, however, that all of the problems Bin Laden spoke of in staging attacks in the United States have, since his death, been wiped clean away by an insane U.S. immigration policy; the U.S. and NATO governments bringing tens of thousands of the Afghan military personnel, whom their generals had  trained, into the United States and Europe during and after the disgraceful crushing of the U.S. and NATO in Afghanistan, which also prove that the third British occupation of the country wasn’t much of a charm for the UK. These Afghans and their kin have received preference over native-citizens, pampering, and protection from the law by the U.S. and European regime. Also in America, the Afghans and their fellow Islamists have garnered indispensable aid from the Democratic Party, its host of reprehensible NGO allies — all bent on destroying the republic — as well as from the Biden administration’s neutering of U.S. law enforcement capabilities at all levels of government. These efforts have yielded a fine and fairly secure environment for U.S.-based Islamist leaders to build networks in many areas of the country, as well as to train fighters to use when the time is right for attacks.

Mr. Trump.                                                                29 December 2024

I believe you will recall that you won the presidency by receiving unflinching support from many tens of millions of Americans on dozen or more issues, but for none of those issues was their support more unanimous than for removing all illegal aliens from the United States and for the United States to stop causing wars and start staying out of other peoples’ wars. The second issue is the one I wanted to speak to you about on this occasion.

It is time, Sir, for you to square with your supporters and all Americans. “No more wars” means exactly that, and yet you never miss chance to threaten Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, Syrians, and other Muslim peoples because they dare to defend themselves against their own governing tyrannies and/or the worst neighbor – Israel — that has existed as a nation state in the Middle East since 1945. In your first term, during the recent election campaign, and now in the pre-inauguration interregnum, you, too many of your cabinet members, and other of your appointees have formed a billionaires’ band playing the “I love Israel to death” song, as well as that raucous ditty “U.S. military might must be used to annihilate the foes of Israel and Zionism.” Perhaps you genuinely enjoy a job at which you so clearly excel; namely, being Israel’s most famous, bloodthirsty, and loud-mouthed international stooge.

Your first term demonstrated your readiness to throw genuine U.S. national security interests to the wind by supporting Israel’s every imperialistic decision and action. You and your administration, for example, recognized the legality of Israel’s imperial land-grab of the Golan Heights area, and you eagerly tugged your forelock at Israel’s command to move our embassy to Jerusalem. On the latter, I think it’s a safe bet that you and most other post-1945 presidents would have withdrawn our embassy from any country other than Israel if it consistently and joyously behaved as savagely as Israel does toward Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. You and all presidents since Nixon, on other hand, have abetted, approved, and funded just that sort of Israeli violence. Even your much-ballyhooed “Abraham Accords” certainly would have worked out in Israel’s interest, making it stronger, wealthier, and ever more capable of killing Muslim civilians and stealing more of their land.

What is it, Mr. Trump, that makes you so eager to be Israel’s mindless, pontificating shill? The faith of your daughter and her husband? The tens of million dollars in Jewish-American campaign contributions you received to help win the recent election? A simple envy of Netanyahu, his dictatorship, and his ability, when the whim hits him, to murder civilians at home and in other countries? Or could it be you are just a well-disguised Zionist?

And why is it, Sir, that you have on all occasions supported AIPAC, the ADL, and the SPLC and treated them as the defenders of Israel, rather as the eternal and lethal enemies of the United States, the role for which they were formed? These agents of a foreign power were tasked task by Biden and his fellow traitors to depict your supporters as “White Supremacists”, “Terrorists”, and “America’s enemies” and you did nothing to tell Americans that each of these anti-U.S. organizations were being paid by, at least, the Pentagon, the FBI, DHS, and DOJ to pretend to do “research” that found “hard evidence” showing most white Christian Americans fall into those categories of enemies. You would know – if you just fire-up your Ivy League-trained brain — that those organizations make long lists of Christian Americans for Biden’s brown shirts, especially highlighting those who oppose abortion, who intransigently oppose foreign wars, and who wildly oppose Israeli, Jewish-American, and all other foreign control of the federal government, many state governments, and much of our economic and academic elites. It is also worth your time to explain to the American people that the above-named agents of a foreign power are buying-off/bribing 534 of the 535 elected members of the two houses of Congress, making each of 534 members receiving such funds an agent of a foreign power, a traitor, or both.

Though I may be misremembering, Sir, I recall that you unequivocally sided with the organizations named above, and with those wealthy Jewish-Americans, who withdrew their massive donations to U.S. universities, when the leaders thereof did not support abrogating the First Amendment for all students protesting Israel’s deliberate murder of Palestinian women and children. What would move you as a presidential candidate, Sir, to side with such transparent and deadly foes of our Constitution and Bill of Rights? At least you might have mentioned that earlier those vengeful anti-U.S. Jewish Americans had no qualms, indeed, they were enthusiastic, about sending many tens billions of dollars to the same universities, if those schools would indoctrinate their students in the damnable tenets of socialism, anti-Americanism, Bolshevism, Communism, Wokism, abortion-on-demand, Israel-love, DEI, multiculturalism, an epic list of sexual depravities, and that truly demented and society-destroying Hillaryite motto “diversity makes us stronger”. Mr. Trump, does the Jewish-American funding of U.S. universities to enable this list of atrocities to be embedded by their shill professors in the minds of our students really strike you as desirable?

Mr. Trump, your greatest, and seemingly deliberate, failure has been not only your refusal to explain to Americans the obvious fact that Israel and its wealthy Jewish-American supporters have been the enemies of the America republic since Israel was founded in 1948. You also have not, in addition, publicly spoken of the fact that the base of America’s dire Israel problem lies not only with that arrogant, racist and war-mongering state and its wealthy Jewish-Americans billionaires, but as importantly with the relentless avariciousness of American politicians at all levels of government and all walks of life in which Israel and their Jewish-American acolytes need to force their cooperation via compromise-operations, payoffs, or threats. Mr. Trump, there is no chance of America becoming what the Founders intended, a peaceful and non-interventionist country, but always willing to defend itself if attacked, until the United States sheds itself of binding ties with Israel and NATO, ties that demand America’s participation in wars whether or not U.S. interests are at risk and without the crystal-clear and iron-clad constitutional responsibility of Congress to debate and publicly vote yes-to-no on a proposal to go to war. The Constitution says, Mr. Trump, if there is not a majority Congressional vote for war, there can be no war. Currently, U.S. post-1945 presidents are less presidents than they are Warlords. Perhaps that status appeals to your imagination, and, if so, wars on Israel’s behalf are clearly the way to cement your own war-lordship and thereby continue the destruction of the Constitution’s most vital provisions.

Finally, Mr. Trump, it is worth remembering that Israel’s major claim when demanding U.S. and really universal aid in all the wars and killing it uses is the claim that “Israel has a right to exist.” That assertion, Sir, is the purest of pure ahistorical horseshit. There is precisely no historical record of a nation-state surviving just because it publicly, tiresomely, and endlessly repeated the claim that it has a “right to exist.” Are we really saying, Sir, that if Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito – or Saddam, Kaiser Wilhelm, Mullah Omar, Bashar al-Assad, Gaddafi, or Ho Chi Minh, for that matter — had simply broadcast radio speeches claiming that Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan had “the right to exist” that, in recognition of that right, the United States and its allies would have agreed and – as they have in the case of Israel – then started attacking countries and targets chosen by Berlin and Tokyo. Only a madman – or a well-compensated mad man — could find that a correct course of action. Yet that is precisely what the United States government has done via presidential and congressional defiance of the Constitution – under both parties — vis-à-vis Israel since 1948.

I have chosen, Mr. Trump, not to leave this piece as simply a well-earned criticism of your lack of respect for genuine and commonsense American national security interests, Christianity, the liberty of American citizens, the proper constitutional behavior of a president, even though you have added to those faults your own sickening butt-kissing of Israel, its leaders, and the Jewish-American moneybags who pay the bills. So, to end on a more helpful note, I am appending some reading suggestions for you and your advisers; perhaps the latter could summarize them for you. I can promise you, Mr. Trump, that you, your team, and those people who you are now poised to govern, would greatly benefit from such a review of the literature below.

Start, naturally, with George Washington’s Farewell Address, a work as vitally relevant to the republic’s survival today as it was 1796; the speeches of Virginia’s great non-interventionist John Randolph of Roanoke; the war-related, pre-World Wars speeches of Republican Senators William Borah and Robert Taft; the startlingly accurate work of journalist John Flynn, on how the New Deal and Roosevelt’s war opened a path toward Fascism in America; a selection of the fiction and non-fiction works of Gore Vidal; the brilliant anti-imperialism writings of Mark Twain; and, for an understanding of why war inevitably causes the destruction of American culture, society, unity, economic well-being, liberty, and patriotism, see the invaluable non-fiction and fictional works of Bill Kauffman, the poet and novelist Wendell Berry, and the philosopher Richard M. Weaver.

As a lead-in to the foregoing, I have appended below a speech made by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh – latter promoted to General – in Des Moines, Iowa, on 11 September 1941. The speech is titled “Who are the War Agitators?”. The speech provides a brilliant example of the arguments and true intentions of non-interventionists; namely to persuade as many Americans as possible that, to preserve the republic, the U.S. government must resolutely stay out of other peoples’ wars, and to avoid electing presidents – like FDR – who will connive, deceive, and seek aid from foreign powers to force Americans to enter wars in which the republic has very few if any genuine national interests at risk. The FDR regime, its media operatives, and its allies — or masters? — in the British intelligence services responded to this speech with a deliberate effort that ruined the previously splendid, heroic, and well-earned reputation of Colonel Lindbergh, who until the time surely was considered the greatest American in the first 41 years of the 20th Century. The FDR-directed response to the speech also is one of the greatest, most obvious, and best-documented examples of a federal-government planned and managed effort to severely limit the right of free speech on the topic of non-intervention at times when the sitting president is eager to get the United States into an interventionist war.

–On 11 September 1941, Colonel Lindbergh said to his audience:

“It is now two years since this latest European war began. From that day in September, 1939, until the present moment, there has been an over-increasing effort to force the United States into the conflict.

That effort has been carried on by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people; but it has been so successful that, today, our country stands on the verge of war.

At this time, as the war is about to enter its third winter, it seems appropriate to review the circumstances that have led us to our present position. Why are we on the verge of war? Was it necessary for us to become so deeply involved? Who is responsible for changing our national policy from one of neutrality and independence to one of entanglement in European affairs?

Personally, I believe there is no better argument against our intervention than a study of the causes and developments of the present war. I have often said that if the true facts and issues were placed before the American people, there would be no danger of our involvement.

Here, I would like to point out to you a fundamental difference between the groups who advocate foreign war, and those who believe in an independent destiny for America.

If you will look back over the record, you will find that those of us who oppose intervention have constantly tried to clarify facts and issues; while the interventionists have tried to hide facts, and confuse issues.

We ask you to read what we said last month, last year, and even before the war began. Our record is open and clear, and we are proud of it.

We have not led you on by subterfuge and propaganda. We have not resorted to steps short of anything, in order to take the American people where they did not want to go.

What we said before the elections, we say [illegible] and again, and again today. And we will not tell you tomorrow that it was just campaign oratory. Have you ever heard an interventionist, or a British agent, or a member of the administration in Washington ask you to go back and study a record of what they have said since the war started? Are their self-styled defenders of democracy willing to put the issue of war to a vote of our people? Do you find these crusaders for foreign freedom of speech, or the removal of censorship here in our own country?

The subterfuge and propaganda that exists in our country is obvious on every side. Tonight, I shall try to pierce through a portion of it, to the naked facts which lie beneath.

When this war started in Europe, it was clear that the American people were solidly opposed to entering it. Why shouldn’t we be? We had the best defensive position in the world; we had a tradition of independence from Europe; and the one time we did take part in a European war left European problems unsolved, and debts to America unpaid.

National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America. But there were various groups of people, here and abroad, whose interests and beliefs necessitated the involvement of the United States in the war. I shall point out some of these groups tonight, and outline their methods of procedure. In doing this, I must speak with the utmost frankness, for in order to counteract their efforts, we must know exactly who they are.

The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.

Behind these groups, but of lesser importance, are a number of capitalists, Anglophiles, and intellectuals who believe that the future of mankind depends upon the domination of the British empire. Add to these the Communistic groups who were opposed to intervention until a few weeks ago, and I believe I have named the major war agitators in this country.

I am speaking here only of war agitators, not of those sincere but misguided men and women who, confused by misinformation and frightened by propaganda, follow the lead of the war agitators.

As I have said, these war agitators comprise only a small minority of our people; but they control a tremendous influence. Against the determination of the American people to stay out of war, they have marshaled the power of their propaganda, their money, their patronage.

Let us consider these groups, one at a time.

First, the British: It is obvious and perfectly understandable that Great Britain wants the United States in the war on her side. England is now in a desperate position. Her population is not large enough and her armies are not strong enough to invade the continent of Europe and win the war she declared against Germany.

Her geographical position is such that she cannot win the war by the use of aviation alone, regardless of how many planes we send her. Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.

As you all know, we were left with the debts of the last European war; and unless we are more cautious in the future than we have been in the past, we will be left with the debts of the present case. If it were not for her hope that she can make us responsible for the war financially, as well as militarily, I believe England would have negotiated a peace in Europe many months ago, and be better off for doing so.

England has devoted, and will continue to devote every effort to get us into the war. We know that she spent huge sums of money in this country during the last war in order to involve us. Englishmen have written books about the cleverness of its use.

We know that England is spending great sums of money for propaganda in America during the present war. If we were Englishmen, we would do the same. But our interest is first in America; and as Americans, it is essential for us to realize the effort that British interests are making to draw us into their war.

The second major group I mentioned is the Jewish.

It is not difficult to understand why Jewish people desire the overthrow of Nazi Germany. The persecution they suffered in Germany would be sufficient to make bitter enemies of any race.

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. But no person of honesty and vision can look on their pro-war policy here today without seeing the dangers involved in such a policy both for us and for them. Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way for they will be among the first to feel its consequences.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastations. A few far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not.

Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

I am not attacking either the Jewish or the British people. Both races, I admire. But I am saying that the leaders of both the British and the Jewish races, for reasons which are as understandable from their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the war.

We cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own interests, but we also must look out for ours. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.

The Roosevelt administration is the third powerful group which has been carrying this country toward war. Its members have used the war emergency to obtain a third presidential term for the first time in American history. They have used the war to add unlimited billions to a debt which was already the highest we have ever known. And they have just used the war to justify the restriction of congressional power, and the assumption of dictatorial procedures on the part of the president and his appointees.

The power of the Roosevelt administration depends upon the maintenance of a wartime emergency. The prestige of the Roosevelt administration depends upon the success of Great Britain to whom the president attached his political future at a time when most people thought that England and France would easily win the war. The danger of the Roosevelt administration lies in its subterfuge. While its members have promised us peace, they have led us to war heedless of the platform upon which they were elected.

In selecting these three groups as the major agitators for war, I have included only those whose support is essential to the war party. If any one of these groups–the British, the Jewish, or the administration–stops agitating for war, I believe there will be little danger of our involvement.

I do not believe that any two of them are powerful enough to carry this country to war without the support of the third. And to these three, as I have said, all other war groups are of secondary importance.

When hostilities commenced in Europe, in 1939, it was realized by these groups that the American people had no intention of entering the war. They knew it would be worse than useless to ask us for a declaration of war at that time. But they believed that this country could be entered into the war in very much the same way we were entered into the last one.

They planned: first, to prepare the United States for foreign war under the guise of American defense; second, to involve us in the war, step by step, without our realization; third, to create a series of incidents which would force us into the actual conflict. These plans were of course, to be covered and assisted by the full power of their propaganda.

Our theaters soon became filled with plays portraying the glory of war. Newsreels lost all semblance of objectivity. Newspapers and magazines began to lose advertising if they carried anti-war articles. A smear campaign was instituted against individuals who opposed intervention. The terms “fifth columnist,” “traitor,” “Nazi,” “anti-Semitic” were thrown ceaselessly at any one who dared to suggest that it was not to the best interests of the United States to enter the war. Men lost their jobs if they were frankly anti-war. Many others dared no longer speak.

Before long, lecture halls that were open to the advocates of war were closed to speakers who opposed it. A fear campaign was inaugurated. We were told that aviation, which has held the British fleet off the continent of Europe, made America more vulnerable than ever before to invasion. Propaganda was in full swing.

There was no difficulty in obtaining billions of dollars for arms under the guise of defending America. Our people stood united on a program of defense. Congress passed appropriation after appropriation for guns and planes and battleships, with the approval of the overwhelming majority of our citizens. That a large portion of these appropriations was to be used to build arms for Europe, we did not learn until later. That was another step.

To use a specific example; in 1939, we were told that we should increase our air corps to a total of 5,000 planes. Congress passed the necessary legislation. A few months later, the administration told us that the United States should have at least 50,000 planes for our national safety. But almost as fast as fighting planes were turned out from our factories, they were sent abroad, although our own air corps was in the utmost need of new equipment; so, that today, two years after the start of war, the American army has a few hundred thoroughly modern bombers and fighters–less in fact, than Germany is able to produce in a single month.

Ever since its inception, our arms program has been laid out for the purpose of carrying on the war in Europe, far more than for the purpose of building an adequate defense for America.

Now at the same time we were being prepared for a foreign war, it was necessary, as I have said, to involve us in the war. This was accomplished under that now famous phrase “steps short of war.”

England and France would win if the United States would only repeal its arms embargo and sell munitions for cash, we were told. And then [illegible] began, a refrain that marked every step we took toward war for many months–“the best way to defend America and keep out of war.” we were told, was “by aiding the Allies.”

First, we agreed to sell arms to Europe; next, we agreed to loan arms to Europe; then we agreed to patrol the ocean for Europe; then we occupied a European island in the war zone. Now, we have reached the verge of war.

The war groups have succeeded in the first two of their three major steps into war. The greatest armament program in our history is under way.

We have become involved in the war from practically every standpoint except actual shooting. Only the creation of sufficient “incidents” yet remains; and you see the first of these already taking place, according to plan — a plan that was never laid before the American people for their approval.

Men and women of Iowa; only one thing holds this country from war today. That is the rising opposition of the American people. Our system of democracy and representative government is on test today as it has never been before. We are on the verge of a war in which the only victor would be chaos and prostration.

We are on the verge of a war for which we are still unprepared, and for which no one has offered a feasible plan for victory–a war which cannot be won without sending our soldiers across the ocean to force a landing on a hostile coast against armies stronger than our own.

We are on the verge of war, but it is not yet too late to stay out. It is not too late to show that no amount of money, or propaganda, or patronage can force a free and independent people into war against its will. It is not yet too late to retrieve and to maintain the independent American destiny that our forefathers established in this new world.

The entire future rests upon our shoulders. It depends upon our action, our courage, and our intelligence. If you oppose our intervention in the war, now is the time to make your voice heard.

Help us to organize these meetings; and write to your representatives in Washington. I tell you that the last stronghold of democracy and representative government in this country is in our house of representatives and our senate.

There, we can still make our will know. And if we, the American people, do that, independence and freedom will continue to live among us, and there will be no foreign war.” (1)

–Endnote:

–1.) Charles A. Lindbergh, “Who are the War Agitators”, Des Moines, Iowa, 11 September 1941, http://www.charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/speech.asp. (NB: This is a terrific and thoughful website on Lindbergh, his life, his accomplishments, and his never-ending readiness to take private and public jobs that allowed him to help the United States better defend itself, often at a risk to his own life. It also provides useful information on his wife and family and about the America in which he lived and worked.

After several days of listening to the mainstream media crow about the glorious eviction of Assad from his perch in Damascus, I can only think that the U.S. governing elite’s knowledge of the Middle East is as half-assed and self-serving as it was when Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States in late 1996. At that time, America’s senior foreign policy leaders Clinton, Gore, Berger, Albright, Tenet, and Clarke, scorned the declaration of war by a turban, robe, and sandal wearing Arab, a man who was a Saudi and all brilliant American political leaders, generals, and ace journalists were certain that a Saudi could threaten no one but the female Western flight attendants who stayed between flights in Amman’s the ritzy hotels. At one point in the run-up to the 9/11 attack, Clinton asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, then General Hugh Shelton, if his ninjas — special forces — could eliminate bin Laden. Shelton answered he would not risk his troops on Bin Laden and his fighters because they trained on what looked like playground equipment.

A few points might help to partially negate the nonsense now being dispensed about a major Western and Israeli victory in Syria by adolescent politicians, TV generals, journalists, and reality-resistant ambassadors.

–1.) The violent overthrow of a regime in the Middle East – and in much of the world – seldom yields a happy-ever-after scenario. It yields violence, usually extended, and more important a beachhead for Islamist militants as they proceed with plans to remove the cancer on Islam they consider Israel to be. By the way, the mujahidin have never been closer to that goal then they are today.

–2.) The U.S. government, the EU regimes, the UN, and the World Economic Forum are all rejoicing because the security provided by Assad’s regime – and previously by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein – for Christians is over, and they will be exterminated by the Islamists as time passes. Another point to keep in mind is that the Obama and Biden administrations have long been working and funding Islamist guerilla groups in the Middle East, as part of their strategy to make-friends with America’s Islamist enemies using multi-billion payoffs of Iran, support for some of the Islamist groups now in play, and the pathetic sight – more than a decade ago — of the U.S. ambassador to Syria wandering around Damascus urging Syrians to rebel against Assad’s regime, thereby aiding the start of  the civil war that was devoured the country. The just mentioned would-be Islamist allies of Obama and Biden, of course, graciously accepted funding by American taxpayers. They then did as they pleased or cooperated in operations they and their U.S. backers favored, all of which provided steps forward for the Islamists and their goals.

–3.) Jordan, the last block to the Islamists’ ability to engage Israel along its eastern border, is no reliable Gibraltar. Since the present Hamas-Israel War began there has been restlessness in the Jordanian army about the king’s failure to assist the forces attacking Israel. Jordan is thought to be in America’s pocket, but that pocket holds virtually none of the Jordanian people and nothing which can salve popular Jordanian hatred for Israel. In the ahistorical minds of Western leaders, Jordan may be a rock blocking the Mujahedin’s westward advance, but it is a rock made only by a mix of paper Mache and massive over-confidence in the ability of Jordan’s king to hold the fort.

–4.) The key to the future in the post-Assad Middle East, as always, lies in Israel’s ability to effectively exercise its bought-and-paid for ownership of the U.S. Congress, president, flag officers, and TV generals. Badly damaged by Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Iran, the IDF – although backed by Israeli arrogance, racism, bribing power, and spectacularly wasted U.S. arms and money, cannot go it alone for any prolonged period against the mujahedin if the latter begin to solidify control of Syria and, as more fighters join them, strike against Jordan’s supposed strength. Netanyahu likely will send his troops and tanks into Syria to kill as many Muslims as possible, gun-carrying or otherwise. The Israeli government has never had much respect for Muslim fighters, and, even after their recent drubbing, are reliably afflicted with the same blindness. Odds are that the IDF and its armor will make initial quick advances and then begin to slow as increasing numbers of mujahedin arrive to reinforce the Islamist fighters in Syria. At first they will come from Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, the Gulf States, Turkey, and Europe. Those coming from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, the United States, the Philippines, Canada, the Balkans, Indonesia, Thailand, Chechnya, and Malaysia will take a bit longer to arrive. The Islamists in these countries have been stewing in their anger for governments that have done little to help those who have been fighting Israel for more than a year. Most governments in those countries surely will prefer to send their domestic mujahedin problem abroad rather than cope with its presence – and anger – at home.

–5.) What does that mean for American parents? Well, it at least means that the Pentagon ought to be adding new acres to Arlington Cemetery. The future of the now developing situation in Syria is pretty much predictable. The IDF’s troops, armor, and air-cover will make quick gains and then find itself gradually confronting more and better armed mujahedin, a force that enjoys access to the virtually unlimited manpower of the Muslim world. Israel’s advance will slow and plans that have long existed between the U.S. government, Pentagon, CIA, and Israel will be activated and U.S. military forces will be committed to die in an effort to try to save America’s number one enemy, Israel.

–6.) At that point, Americans will begin to hear the same old song they have heard during every war the U.S. military has lost since 1945, and that means all the wars our presidents have started in violation of the Constitution. The lyrics coming from the Trump Administration will strike the ear as quite familiar: “Israel is our ally” [a lie, it is our fierce and very destructive enemy], “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East” [except for its Muslim and Christian populations], “America is an exceptional nation and is duty bound to defend democracy wherever it is threatened” [a lie, Americans are people like all others, fallen beings capable of great good and – as demonstrated by Biden’s bunch – despicable, deliberate, and deadly evil]; and, finally, “The U.S. military is the finest and strongest in the world and can achieve any goal it is assigned (another lie, the U.S. military is led by woke flag officers, loyal to Biden not to the Constitution or the citizenry. It has been crippled by Biden, Austin, and woke flag officers intentionally infecting it with mandatory sexual deviance and a death-sentence in the form of mandatory inoculation with Covid vaccines.

–7.) Aside from its nuclear forces, the U.S. military is a tottering and badly led wreck, capable only of spending a combined total of 40-plus years being defeated in Afghanistan and Iraq, and then running like frightened school girls to get out of Kabul, leaving the strategic Bagram airfield for the Chinese and over $80 billion of first-class arms for the Taliban. The latter can now be shared with or sold to Islamist fighters bound for Syria, whose goal will ultimately be the Muslim-world-uniting word “Jerusalem”.

–8.) At the moment, Americans seem stuck with no choice but to watch their sons and daughters being sent to fight and die for Israel’s manic dream of “Greater Israel”, a goal that is as far away as is possible from a life-and-death American interest. It is now clear that President Trump’s “no more foreign wars” carries the clear caveat “Except for Israel”, and then it will be war whenever Israel tells its American poodle to fight. Trump in his first term and recently has sounded more like a dedicated Israeli, not an American interested in seeing his country abandon a nearly 75-year record of unnecessary and always lost wars. And up and down the line of the new administration’s appointments – from Hegseth, to Radcliffe, to Gabbard, to Rubio, to Kennedy, to Stefanik, to Rev. Huckabee, to Patel, to Vance, etc., etc. etc., one finds ardent warmongering Israeli Firsters eager to expend enormous revenue and plenty of American lives whenever our Israeli ally tells its poodle to jump. Needless to say, there will be no help from either house of Congress for keeping us out of other peoples’ wars, especially that most useless of all wars, one fighting to protect Israel’s interests, arrogance, racism, anti-Americanism, and expansionism against much more than a billion Muslims. Among all nation states, Israel has long been one of the worst and least trustworthy neighbors the earth has seen. American policy should be to let Israel settle its own problems with its neighbors, without the waste of any more American blood, money, or the further rapid Ukraine-and-Israel driven dwindling of the U.S. military’s reserve stocks of weaponry.

–9. A genuine America First policy would see Trump’s administration telling Israel to shove off; quickly and accurately defining the ADL, the SPLC, AIPAC, and perhaps other groups as agents of a foreign power, begin to investigate their nefarious and hugely anti-American activities; prosecute influential American citizens – especially politicians and civil servants — who have taken money from the groups; strip every Congressman, Senator, flag officer, senior civil servant – and President? – of the Israeli passports they carry, and then seek to pass a law that completely bans all American citizens from holding any but a U.S. passport, and start legal actions against the federal and 37 state governments that are economically and unconstitutionally persecuting American citizens because they oppose Israel’s policies and actions and/or support an economic boycott of Israel.

–10.) After nearly a decade of Trump claiming his intent to create, maintain, and pursue an America First foreign policy, this is precisely the moment when he as to gallop or get off the horse. No nation has ever controlled the United States to the extent Israel does today. Not even the perfidious British were able to exert such control, although they did greatly influence two Anglophile presidents – Wilson and FDR – to intervene in two European wars that were none of our concern. British intelligence agencies also ran illegal covert operations – supported by FDR’s regime, rich Eastern elites, and Hoover’s FBI – to destroy the leaders and organization of the American First Movement in 1940-1941. At that time, the British, FDR and his coterie, and prominent Jewish-Americans – especially the movie-makers — cooperated to further develop and sharpen the barbarous but effective weapon of damning American citizens as “anti-Semites” if they chose to put their own country first at all times. So, what will it be, Mr. Trump, America First or continued and willing slavery to a nation irrelevant to genuine U.S. national-security interests?