…by Jonas E. Alexis and John W. Whitehead

JEA: We know that perpetual wars in the Middle East have never been good for America and much of the world. Perpetual wars have been good for Israel, the Neocons, and the entire war machine. It was Jonah Goldberg who posited in 2002 that:

“Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”[1]

You may want to read that again to get the deep philosophical knowledge that Goldberg was bequeathing upon America.



One year later, America picked up a “small crappy little country” called Iraq and, with the help of Neocons like Goldberg, blew it up to hell. Why did America have to do that? Neocon Michael Ledeen has the answer:

“Creative destruction is our middle name. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law.”[2]

Following the Neocons’ lead, America did the same thing in Afghanistan, Syria, etc. So, what did brother Goldberg say when Iraq turned out to be a complete disaster? Well, he wrote an article in the LA Times in 2006 entitled, “Iraq: a worthy mistake.”[3]

Listen to Goldberg here:

“The Iraq war was a mistake. I know, I know. But I’ve never said it before. And I don’t enjoy saying it now. I’m sure that to the antiwar crowd this is too little, too late, and that’s fine because I’m not joining their ranks anyway…. I must confess that one of the things that made me reluctant to conclude that the Iraq war was a mistake was my general distaste for the shabbiness of the arguments on the antiwar side.”[4]

That is a categorical lie. And it is pretty sad that it was repeated in the LA Times. Goldberg must have known that he was repeating a lie precisely because all the documents we possess state that both Bush and much of the Neocon establishment knew that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, that Saddam was not buying uranium from Niger, and that Saddam had no plan to attack the United States.

Yet those categorical lies were summoned by Neocons of various stripes because, like Dracula, they were hungry to drink the blood. This type they wanted to feast on the blood of decent people in the Middle East.

I challenge anyone to pick up Paul R. Pillar’s scholarly study, Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform (Columbia University Press, 2011), Michael MacDonald’s Overreach: Delusions of Regime Change in Iraq (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014), John J. Mearsheimer’s Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), John M. Schuessler’s Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy (New York: Cornell University Press, 2015), and see if Goldberg wasn’t just lying to his teeth.

In any event, we cannot afford listening to people like Goldberg anymore. We need to stop perpetual wars which have always been good for Israel in the Middle East once and for all.

John W. Whitehead

It’s time to bring all our troops home.

Bring them home from Somalia, Iraq and Syria. Bring them home from Germany, South Korea and Japan. Bring them home from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Oman. Bring them home from Niger, Chad and Mali. Bring them home from Turkey, the Philippines, and northern Australia.

It’s not enough to pull American troops out of Afghanistan, America’s longest, bloodiest and most expensive war to date.

It’s time that we stop policing the globe, stop occupying other countries, and stop waging endless wars.

That’s not what’s going to happen, of course.

The U.S. military reportedly has more than 1.3 million men and women on active duty, with more than 200,000 of them stationed overseas in nearly every country in the world.

Those numbers are likely significantly higher in keeping with the Pentagon’s policy of not fully disclosing where and how many troops are deployed for the sake of “operational security and denying the enemy any advantage.” As investigative journalist David Vine explains, “Although few Americans realize it, the United States likely has more bases in foreign lands than any other people, nation, or empire in history.”

Don’t fall for the propaganda, though.

America’s military forces aren’t being deployed abroad to protect our freedoms here at home. Rather, they’re being used to guard oil fields, build foreign infrastructure and protect the financial interests of the corporate elite. In fact, the United States military spends about $81 billion a year just to protect oil supplies around the world.

The reach of America’s military empire includes close to 800 bases in as many as 160 countries, operated at a cost of more than $156 billion annually. As Vine reports, “Even US military resorts and recreation areas in places like the Bavarian Alps and Seoul, South Korea, are bases of a kind. Worldwide, the military runs more than 170 golf courses.”

This is how a military empire occupies the globe.

After 20 years of propping up Afghanistan to the tune of trillions of dollars and thousands of lives lost, the U.S. military may have finally been forced out, but those troops represent just a fraction of our military presence worldwide.

In an ongoing effort to police the globe, American military servicepeople continue to be deployed to far-flung places in the Middle East and elsewhere.

This is how the military industrial complex, aided and abetted by the likes of Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and others, continues to get rich at taxpayer expense.

Yet while the rationale may keep changing for why American military forces are policing the globe, these wars abroad aren’t making America—or the rest of the world—any safer, are certainly not making America great again, and are undeniably digging the U.S. deeper into debt.

War spending is bankrupting America.

Although the U.S. constitutes only 5% of the world’s population, America boasts almost 50% of the world’s total military expenditure, spending more on the military than the next 19 biggest spending nations combined.

In fact, the Pentagon spends more on war than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare, and safety.

The American military-industrial complex has erected an empire unsurpassed in history in its breadth and scope, one dedicated to conducting perpetual warfare throughout the earth.

Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $4.7 trillion waging its endless wars.

Having been co-opted by greedy defense contractors, corrupt politicians and incompetent government officials, America’s expanding military empire is bleeding the country dry at a rate of more than $32 million per hour.

In fact, the U.S. government has spent more money every five seconds in Iraq than the average American earns in a year.

Future wars and military exercises waged around the globe are expected to push the total bill upwards of $12 trillion by 2053.

Talk about fiscally irresponsible: the U.S. government is spending money it doesn’t have on a military empire it can’t afford.

As investigative journalist Uri Friedman puts it, for more than 15 years now, the United States has been fighting terrorism with a credit card, “essentially bankrolling the wars with debt, in the form of purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds by U.S.-based entities like pension funds and state and local governments, and by countries like China and Japan.”

War is not cheap, but it becomes outrageously costly when you factor in government incompetence, fraud, and greedy contractors. Indeed, a leading accounting firm concluded that one of the Pentagon’s largest agencies “can’t account for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of spending.”

Unfortunately, the outlook isn’t much better for the spending that can be tracked.

A government audit found that defense contractor Boeing has been massively overcharging taxpayers for mundane parts, resulting in tens of millions of dollars in overspending. As the report noted, the American taxpayer paid:

$71 for a metal pin that should cost just 4 cents; $644.75 for a small gear smaller than a dime that sells for $12.51: more than a 5,100 percent increase in price. $1,678.61 for another tiny part, also smaller than a dime, that could have been bought within DoD for $7.71: a 21,000 percent increase. $71.01 for a straight, thin metal pin that DoD had on hand, unused by the tens of thousands, for 4 cents: an increase of over 177,000 percent.

That price gouging has become an accepted form of corruption within the American military empire is a sad statement on how little control “we the people” have over our runaway government.

Mind you, this isn’t just corrupt behavior. It’s deadly, downright immoral behavior.

Americans have thus far allowed themselves to be spoon-fed a steady diet of pro-war propaganda that keeps them content to wave flags with patriotic fervor and less inclined to look too closely at the mounting body counts, the ruined lives, the ravaged countries, the blowback arising from ill-advised targeted-drone killings and bombing campaigns in foreign lands, or the transformation of our own homeland into a warzone.

That needs to change.

The U.S. government is not making the world any safer. It’s making the world more dangerous. It is estimated that the U.S. military drops a bomb somewhere in the world every 12 minutes. Since 9/11, the United States government has directly contributed to the deaths of around 500,000 human beings. Every one of those deaths was paid for with taxpayer funds.

The U.S. government is not making America any safer. It’s exposing American citizens to alarming levels of blowback, a CIA term referring to the unintended consequences of the U.S. government’s international activities. Chalmers Johnson, a former CIA consultant, repeatedly warned that America’s use of its military to gain power over the global economy would result in devastating blowback.

The 9/11 attacks were blowback. The Boston Marathon Bombing was blowback. The attempted Times Square bomber was blowback. The Fort Hood shooter, a major in the U.S. Army, was blowback.

The U.S. military’s ongoing drone strikes will, I fear, spur yet more blowback against the American people. The latest drone strike reportedly killed seven children, ages 2 to 10, in Afghanistan.

The war hawks’ militarization of America—bringing home the spoils of war (the military tanks, grenade launchers, Kevlar helmets, assault rifles, gas masks, ammunition, battering rams, night vision binoculars, etc.) and handing them over to local police, thereby turning America into a battlefield—is also blowback.

James Madison was right: “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” As Madison explained, “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.”

We are seeing this play out before our eyes.

The government is destabilizing the economy, destroying the national infrastructure through neglect and a lack of resources, and turning taxpayer dollars into blood money with its endless wars, drone strikes and mounting death tolls.

Clearly, our national priorities are in desperate need of an overhauling.

At the height of its power, even the mighty Roman Empire could not stare down a collapsing economy and a burgeoning military. Prolonged periods of war and false economic prosperity largely led to its demise. As historian Chalmers Johnson predicts:

The fate of previous democratic empires suggests that such a conflict is unsustainable and will be resolved in one of two ways. Rome attempted to keep its empire and lost its democracy. Britain chose to remain democratic and in the process let go its empire. Intentionally or not, the people of the United States already are well embarked upon the course of non-democratic empire.

This is the “unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex” that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us more than 50 years ago not to let endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

Eisenhower, who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, was alarmed by the rise of the profit-driven war machine that emerged following the war—one that, in order to perpetuate itself, would have to keep waging war.

We failed to heed his warning.

  • [1] Jonah Goldberg, “Baghdad Delenda Est, Part Two,” National Review, April 23, 2002; see also Conor Friedersdorf, “The Real Radicals of the Iraq War: Its Proponents,” Atlantic, March 6, 2013; Glenn Greenwald, “Jonah Goldberg’s deeply ‘conflicted’ thoughts on war and torture,” Salon, November 13, 2007.
  • [2] Michael Ledeen, The War Against the Terror Masters (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002), 210.
  • [3] Jonah Goldberg, “Iraq: A Worthy Mistake,” LA Times, October 19, 2006.
  • [4] Ibid.

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  1. This was all predicted by Benjamin Netanyahu in 1990 when he bragged at a table in Fink’s Bar in Jerusalem that America is a golden calf that we will devour and destroy because they refuse to be our slaves. He also claimed that we are big enough that Zionists of all stripes can do it again and again. How right he was! The 9/11 wars have bankrupted us both financially and morally. Twenty years later we are ripe for the picking… AGAIN!

  2. “If China becoming the largest economy in the world 5-10 years from now withOUT relying upon colonialism, endless war, slavery, and racism doesn’t excite you, then you truly have my sympathies.” – Danny Haiphong.

  3. The Boston Marathon “bombing” was not blowback – it was what we in the other half call a “false flag.”

  4. Read Chapter 8 of “In the Shadows of the American Century” by Alfred W. McCoy. It explains the inevitable demise of the U.S. Empire. Its why I insist we Black people must find out own way now, independent of the decisions of the Federal & State governments, and establish our own economic independence, and educate our OWN children with OUR curriculum. “True and Correct History”, as Master Teacher Dr. John Henrik Clarke taught, starts before Ancient Kemet for Black people, and not 1619. Black people certainly had nothing to do with U.S. Empire, and the CIA directly/indirectly murdering nearly 20 million non-white people after 1947.
    I disagree with your assertion “Britain CHOSE to remain democratic…” The so-called Empire’s slaves certainly did not enjoy this “Democracy.” World War I financially broke the British Colonial Imperialists, and the 20 years that followed for them involved pretending they still WERE the preeminent world power. The reason Chamberlain sought “Peace in Our Time”, was he wanted to preserve the so-called Empire he knew a new conflict with Germany would produce. But September 1939 began the final coffin nail. By August 1940, the Empire was finished (GOOD RIDDANCE).
    The Israeli government is merely a different tribe of White Supremacy, just as the Venice, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian, English, French, and Americans were/are the same tribe. “He’s the SAME man…” as Malcolm X said. People always make that distinction without a difference.

  5. [” A very good thought-out contribution, if it would have been thought to the end, because it nothing more urgent, of the peace will and preservation of the humanity, that ALL wars against us are immediately terminated, the people in their unsovereign nations under the NGO dictatorship of the jiraelian-babylonian ZIONISM, ( the real NAZIS, still existing) which celebrate their private commercial ROI parties in their Delta-Illuminati pyramid of the Freemasons, called TRADE WAR since the 18th century. It is priority time to end the current world war phase four against the German and illegal occupation state and on the European people, like all raped peoples immediately? What are the sectarian religious foundations of these wars with so far 3.5 billion calculated victims in the planned repetition phase? From whom do these private commercial wars start? Who controls them? Who finances them, who has which interests and profit intentions with it? The NWO™ BUSINESS.

  6. ii) [“Why are all nations cartel areas which are protected by whom at all? By the private commercial MILITARY-IND. whose BUSINESS CONTRACTS are those to carry for it, the “conquered” nations under control to receive, so that the US-Municipal Government Corporation can be the ADMINs, thus the so called GOVERNMENT and AUTHORITIES and ADMINISTRATIONS to possess and administer and controls the flow of the MONEY in ONE DIRECTION !!. What is at stake? About the plundering of the raw materials of the countries and SLAVETRADE by the RULERS to keep their businesses going through their military contractors and industries. Because WITHOUT MILITARY= criminal organized PIRATES these perverse colonization and the SLAVE TRADE would never be so as MAIN BUSINESS since Rome’s empires until today the business at all. It must be united all 4 allies, GB-US-CHINA-RUS and these are miles away from that…..because it would question ideology-business networks and power over world domination and that is illusion. So, what is otan-nato? A private commercial INDUSTRY. T=treaty instead of M Military Just to think as an eagle high above. Old fashioned MILITARY-TIMES are over. To many COSTS and trouble and do not fit to the new Agendas.”]

  7. iii) [“There will be some to be REPRESENTATIVE for the SHOCK&AWE and JIHAD-BUSINESS to sell the MIL.IND.PRODUCT, BUT, modern AI-Tech makes them not efficient anymore….so make a “COME-HOME-PATRIOTS-SHOW” because the BIO-WEATHER-ENERGY-PSYOP-WEAPONS are smart Installed. 5G 5 Star MUOS 5 EyeSpy, HAARP, NEXRAD, CERN, OWNING THE WEATHER by 2025; EMF ELF EHF, DEW KEW…GEO-STORM…. The real criminal brutal perpetrators sit at quantum computer machines, which control the genocide and the manipulation of the mRNA/DNA-manipulated chipped PERSONS with the AI-Technology. And employed PERSON, PRODUCTNAME: SOLDIER, are likewise nothing else than CONSUMPTION PRODUCTS in UNIFORM, which are irradiated and poisoned and die no more by sword, bullet and bombs, in the fight man against man, but are destroyed by the invisible weapon technologies from the inside, by these ENERGY WEAPONS, which takes no consideration for friend and foe, before which their CONTRACTORS and COMMANDERS take no consideration, they also do not care. Contract is contract and a SOLDIER has to function as a PRODUCT and is consumed. Why are NEU-VETERANEN so kept away from the public? So that these crimes of the own principals at them remain concealed that they were destroyed from the inside”]

  8. “”””the United States has been fighting terrorism with a credit card, “essentially bankrolling the wars with debt,”””””
    And that debt is owned by the vampire money kings who took over this nation, lock stock and barrel over a hundred years ago, from their base in the city of London. They may have moved or set up some the operations to New York and Washington, but it’s still the same bunch. They own, and control EVERYTHING. And there’s not a thing that can be done about it.
    They will continue their bleeding of America until there’s nothing left, but exactly what they want to be left.
    What that will look like is anybody’s guess; except the vampires’.

  9. Much use of the term Neocon without naming the real problem. The Neocons for the most part are Ashkenazi Jews and their bought and paid for “shills”, the whole lot of them informed by the Talmudically derived geopolitical philosophies of Leo Strauss and Saul Alinsky.

    MHO this is due to the blatant and powerful propaganda by the Zionist political leadership.
    There has been deliberate obfuscation by the Zionist NWO “thought leaders” to confuse some very important concepts- RACE, RELIGION and POLITICS and unite by deception, the masses, into a protective “herd” instinct around the ageing trope of “Anti-Semitism” the better to bind in unity behind the Vision.

    The Mossad motto was/is: “We make war by deception”. The World is kept in a permanent state of fear and war so that those with the Vision and the Power prevail with consensus. At last, this ubiquitous geopolitical paradigm is beginning to unravel with the latest Zionist Covid narrative as the money, media censorship and outright Ashkenazi lies are crumbling under the weight of empirical science and observations. ( See infection rates in Israel recently – the most vaccinated population in the world.).
    Unfortunately for the Zio-Mammonists the World is increasingly less fooled.  

    • Very good!
      But those people and their unlimited resources have thought out all likely scenarios to a point, that based on their vast knowledge of human nature, science and economics, combined with total surveillance, data sets and massive AI capabilities, are not going to be caught with their pants down.
      Whatever is seen and perceived to be happening is the result of much planning. There is no way they are going to let this thing get out of their control. They control it all.
      The only consolation is that their diabolical plan is playing right into God Almighty’s ultimate plan, and not what the demoniacs anticipate.

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