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Phillip's avatar

We should never celebrate the death of anyone, but we are entitled to feel relieved that McCain can't hurt anyone any more. He was more than nasty...he was batshit crazy, emotionally unstable, a militarist whose commanding officer recommended that he get charged with treason and a willing supporter of the cover up of missing POWs in Vietnam. If he were alive today he'd be egging on war with Russia and China. He was a danger to his country and the world.

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J M Hatch's avatar

His legislative history is a gift that will keep on giving for decades, if we're around that long.

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Phillip's avatar

"The evil that men do lives on after them" as they say.

To shift the subject, you may be interested in this, an eye-opening discussion of the Alfred Herrhausen assassination and the end of the Cold War, packed full of revelations about how the empire really works. Herrhausen was a German banker who planned a Marshal Plan for post-Cold War Russia. Truly significant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFzBvavbUXg&list=PLkEoOmUevw4KSf-8orNQDlcg5qtv4b45Y&index=60

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J M Hatch's avatar

Thanks. That really was interesting.

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Phillip's avatar

It certainly helps explain why the Euro elites are so keen not to upset Washington. You don't need to kill too many people to send a message. What infuriates me was how clueless I was when all this was going on. I don't feel guilty, but I do feel a degree of complicity by way of passivity and ignorance.

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J M Hatch's avatar

It also places Obama's comment in a new light, that he had to perform if he didn't expect to have a short and maybe early retirement, but of course he was looking for any excuse to sell himself on what he really wanted to do anyway.

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There is no comparison. Obama was never at any risk from the Deep State. None. He is third generation IC. He was outed by Angelo Codevilla, the onetime ranking civil servant on the Senate intelligence committee. When Obama was first emerging as a possible presidential candidate an investigative journalist in Chicago (Sherman Skolnick, the last of the great muckrakers) alleged that Obama was an intelligence asset...Skolnick died a fortnight later of previously undiagnosed cardiac problems. Webster Tarpley wrote a biography of Obama that also demonstrated the Deep State context of Obama and his closest advisers. Tarpley predicted (in 2008, I think) that if Obama were elected the country was certain to end up in a civil conflict.

The US Left is a Cold War era controlled opposition. Both the domestic and foreign policies of his administration make a lot of sense when you consider things from this perspective.

Codevilla's piece is worth consideration.

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-chosen-one/

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