The Corporate Media and other denizens of the Deep State never tire of ridiculing religious faith, except when the cults that they support---like the Moonies and the Wahhabis---instigate or commit some act of politically-correct violence. Here in the Prozac Nation, we're accustomed to pundits on both the Far Left and Far Right suggesting that political issues are best solved by extirpating one's opponents. Thus we've already seen during Holy Week mass-shootings in San Bernardino, Atlanta, and Tucson.
Though there is some positive news: a Wisconsin Anarchist who threatened attacks on churches this Easter has been caught after a 10-day manhunt. Good thing we're not a Third-World country like Egypt, where churches get blown up at Easter...no, we're exceptional. People like Joseph Jakobowski and Dylann Roof notwithstanding.
Over the last few decades of rampant narcotic-abuse and fake-news, these violent political impulses have seeped into foreign policy. George Bush Senior---one of the architects of the Deep State---learned that by dumbing-down schools and playing the press, pipsqueak dictators like Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein could be portrayed as serious threats to the United States. War could sold and packaged like fake spectator-sports which the Ameroboob could watch on his big-screen while smoking pot and eating popcorn. Haiti, Serbia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Libya, Syria---all of these with their comic-book crazed super-villain leaders waiting for the heroic Americans to liberate them---was cheaper for the Media than producing actually good fiction.
The Corporate Media also found that not only does war sell, but domestic violence does too. Recently, the Jodi Arias Case was more important to the national interest than say, upgrading our collapsing infrastructure. They also learned that by making psychotic mass-killers famous, they could spawn copy-cat killings and cash in on even more violence.
So in the spirit of the season, an interesting story came out today from the Cincinnati Metro Area: another hotbed of drug-addiction and violence. Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones has advocated deploying the MOAB on Mexico.
"I've been saying this for 10 years." Jones tweeted, "Enough is enough! This MOAB can be used on Mexican drug cartels. These are good days ahead."
Now, wouldn't Jesus be proud? It interesting to note this Easter that the same Roman Empire who crucified Christ was eventually converted to Christianity---and not by dropping mega-bombs. Mexico might actually appreciate the US a little more if the Deep State would stop arming and funding these drug cartels; if the US actually started doing something about our addiction rates that create economic demands for these cartels; if we gave the Mexican Army and police some practical assistance on defeating these gangs---and maybe---just maybe---instituting some fair trade practices that help mutually boost our economies; then we'd likely see more long-benefit than dropping MOABs on Mexican cities.
Of course, the Christian thing to do is lost on Neocon pinheads like Sheriff Jones. Pope Francis actually visited a jail recently and performed the Easter ritual of foot-washing on some prisoners. No doubt the smart boys like Sheriff Jones are smirking and consider Francis a chump; even though the Pope was emulating Christ's example. Francis was illustrating the truth that no matter what sins one has committed; or what one's situation in life is, one is never beyond the reach of God in prayer. "His Hand is stretched out still" as the prophets say; but our postmodern Moabites need human sacrifices for the new Molochs.
It wouldn't hurt most of our own Elites to open a Bible occasionally and realize that the ancient Moabites came to a rather bad end; while the Prince of Peace was born just across their border. But try and explain this to the Ameroboob---too caught up in his own hubris to believe he's anything but some version of God's Chosen People, and you're struck with immediate outrage on MOAB-levels.
While Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is anticipating planting the Rainbow Flag over Pyongyang, emboldened Wahhabi gangsters unleashed a wave of terrorism across Africa this weekend. At least we don't have to think about violence in Chicago any more.
In Egypt, Palm Sunday worshippers were massacred in two separate bomb attacks with a police station blown up for good measure. President Sisi has declared a three-month State of Emergency---killing Christians in Egypt is still considered a criminal offense. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks, just a day after Sisi broke with Trump and issued a statement supporting Assad. Egypt has military and civilian contractors in Syria fighting alongside the other Allies.
In Somalia, the vicious Al-Shabaab jihadists are on the move again; capturing the strategic village of Ceelbuur. A week ago, the Trump Administration gave the gay-friendly Pentagon full authority to act independently in Somalia. They quickly responded by pulling African Union peacekeeping forces from Ceelbuur---which fell to Al-Shabaab without a shot being fired.
This is making America Great Again?
Meanwhile, the RINO UN Ambassador is welcome on CNN once again. She told the fake-news outlet in an exclusive interview this morning that the Deep State is considering sanctions on Russia and Iran for supporting Assad's fight against Jihadists and Western Liberalism in general. No word yet on how Egypt will punished; but Haley informed the gullible Corporate Media that "Trump and his Administration were shown classified information proving that Assad had been involved in the chemical weapons attack at Idlib." Not mentioning of course that this information came from Obama's stooges General Joseph Votel and the Moslem Brotherhood-ruled Turkish and Jordanian governments. Or that it was supported by the Al-Qaeda front-group The Syrian Observatory on Human Rights and the Soros-backed White Helmets.
The Deep State---a confederation of organized crime, religious cultists, and political extremists---came into being during the geopolitical chaos occasioned by the fall of the Soviet Union. Grafting itself onto Cold War Era intelligence infrastructure, the Deep State turned away from Cold War policies of encouraging Democracy and World Peace. Instead, they pushed the doctrine of a Pax Americana: a false theory by which a handful of American-based pseudo-Elites controlled global economic systems and ruled with the military power of the ancient Caesars. This shift was reflected in American politics, wherein we saw a resurgence of pre-Independence dynastic governments such as the Bush and Clinton families; and economic monopolies to which the once-independent Media and Academia were subjugated.
During the 2016 Elections, some Conservatives feared the possibility that Trump would align himself with the Deep State; given his connections to Wall Street and his proclivities for elevating family members to high political positions. Yet we hoped that this was not so.
It could well be that Trump's political inexperience and bad advice is coming into play here. Other presidents have succumbed to this tendency; and if so, it is up to Republican Party activists to correct the Administration.
What many well-meaning Conservatives who support Trump's militarism fail to understand is that there is an enormous difference between domestic and foreign policy in terms of how it is conducted. Draining the Swamp at HUD and cracking down on government corruption is not the same as dropping an atomic bomb on North Korea. Interventions in foreign countries bring about the interests of other countries who, like us, are working in the interests of their own people. Creating power vacuums in countries like Syria or North Korea will inevitably lead to others rushing in to fill that vacuum---many of whom are already in conflict with one another. This came close to happening in Iraq during Obama's tenure when the Iraqi Government seemed on the verge of falling to ISIS, for example. Iran and Turkey were preparing to intervene militarily and both sides had made it very clear that they would not let the other have Iraq to itself. Had such a war erupted, the radicals would have sided with Turkey and the Shia countries with Iran---sucking in the entire region.
Similar scenarios could happen nearly anywhere. As we said before, "geopolitics is a dangerous place to play games." Removing a corrupt bureaucracy in the EPA means simply replacing it and enacting new policies. Regime Change in a sovereign state leads to chaos. Even when it is justified---as in WW1 and WW2---the wartime casualties and post-war chaos shows clearly that such undertakings come with a very high price tag and should never be undertaken unless the sacrifices involved justify it, as St. Augustine said centuries ago.
