The policy of perpetual foreign intervention has long been understood to lead, inevitably, to the collapse of Nations who adopted such folly; George Washington understood the risks and dangers, on many levels, associated with the practice and he warned Americans, in his farewell address, to avoid “foreign entanglements” and the certain fate that awaits Nations who succumb to the temptation.
It could be argued that, at least initially, U.S. foreign involvement was an extension of this Country’s evangelizing American Constitutional Ideals no doubt enhanced by its seemingly endless economic capacity and yet it wasn’t long that both of these capabilities were hijacked by predatory economic interests who found it all too easy to use the nation’s economic engine and its resources as bait to be dangled over the pallet of the ever-corruptible politician.
The Iranian contest, and frankly all of Middle East chaos (but not to the exclusion of other areas of the planet but let’s not get ahead of ourselves), as you observe it today, is both evidence and the result of this Nation having been hijacked by predatory interests. Now then!
“The policy of perpetual foreign intervention has long been understood to lead, inevitably, to the collapse of Nations who adopted such folly.”
We should applaud the Administration for their desire to retract the tentacles of the hijacked American Ship of State including its attempts at restoring American Sovereignty to the People however it must never be forgotten that these practices transcend multiple administrations/decades consequently the associated spores have become as treacherous as they run broad and deep. Valid as the previous point may be do not ignore the scarcity of reason caused by the short-term-thirty-second sound-bite mentality of the public and the shallow depths of the average politician’s intellect accented by their what-have-you-done-for-me-lately sense of domestic allegiance. Accordingly, one should not expect the Presidents ambitions to be easily won or understood for the incredibly difficulty their ambitions represent or for the comprehensive support they deserve. I would not be surprised to see Speaker Pelosi encourage the appending of Articles 3 et seq to the Impeachment Narrative.
With consideration to the fact that the Impeachment Process has now become yet another extremity of political-activism, one that has further weakened and/or fractured the Office of the Presidency, it is quite reasonable to assume that the Iranians, in their lead-up to the attack on the American Embassy in Iraq, calculated that the United States’ willingness to defend itself and its interests were rendered feckless or impaired by the Impeachment of the President. A masterfully malignant stroke of insanity!
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
