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.
