A Warmonger’s Guide

When Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was an undergraduate at Harvard he took time out to become a “Publius Fellow” at the “Straussian” neocon Pentagon propaganda mill known as the Claremont Institute in Claremont, California.  After graduating he returned to Claremont Graduate School to pursue graduate studies in “government” under the tutelage of the “Straussians” there, but dropped out to pursue a law degree instead.  He then joined the U.S. Army, eventually going to Iraq to kill Muslims.   All of this is why he is a darling of the most crazed neocons, especially Bill Kristol and his ilk.  Since these crazed warmongers, who are now trying to start wars with Russia and China, control the Republican Party, they saw to it that the young Tom Cotton was elected to the U.S. Senate from The Land of Bill Clinton — Arkansas.

Calling the Claremont Institute a “Pentagon propaganda mill” is no exageration.  After the entire world understood that the invasion of Iraq was entirely based on a Big Lie, promoted by such people as those associated with the Claremont Institute, the Claremont Institute awarded its annual “statesman of the year” award to Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaugh and Victor Davis Hanson for their respective roles in instigating and prosecuting this senseless and catastrophic military intervention that even the Bush administration’s British political sock puppet Tony Blair has apologized for.Senator Cotton seems unaware of these plain historical facts when he says in his speech that “Another principle of foreign policy rooted in the Constitution is that the Union must have a strong military.”  Equally mysterious is his absurd contention that “the American tradition has never been to seek war, or to seek it first in a dispute.”  Well, what can one say about this other than it is sheer nonsense.  Lincoln did “seek war” when he sent warships to Charleston harbor.  The U.S. government did “seek war” when it waged its campaign of genocide against the Plains Indians from 1865 to 1890.  It did seek war with the Spanish empire in the Spanish-American War.  It did seek war during the Filipino Insurrection when it killed more than 200,000 Filipinos for opposing becoming part of the American empire.  Woodrow Wilson did seek war when he promised nonintervention as a presidential candidate and then plunged America into the European war.  FDR did seek war when he ordered an oil embargo of Japan and all but invited the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor, as Robert Stinnett proved in his book, Day of Deceit.  Truman sought war by senselessly intervening in Korea; and Lyndon Johnson used the fake “Gulf of Tonkin incident” as a justification for the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War.  And of course today, the crazed neocons who run the Republican Party, and who view Senator Cotton as their new poster boy for warmongering insanity, seem to be seeking war with all the rest of the world – another World War.

Senator Cotton ended his speech with the additional absurdity that to “defend our national honor today, we will need significantly  more defense spending” because Iran is “our mortal enemy.”  Huh?  Iran threatens us?  Surely that is the exact opposite of the truth.  But that, you see, is what “Straussianism” is all about:  telling you that “the truth” is actually the opposite of what your own lying eyes say it is – at least when it comes to war and foreign policy.

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