The $1.5 trillion in military outlays each year is the scam that keeps on giving—to the military-industrial complex and the Washington insiders—even as it impoverishes and endangers America and the world.
On the surface, US foreign policy seems to be utterly irrational. The US
gets into one disastrous war after another -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,
Libya, Ukraine, and Gaza. In recent days, the US stands globally
isolated in its support of Israel’s genocidal actions against the
Palestinians, voting against a UN General Assembly resolution for a Gaza
ceasefire backed by 153 countries with 89% of the world population, and
opposed by just the US and 9 small countries with less than 1% of the
world population.
In the past 20 years, every major US foreign policy objective has failed. The Taliban returned to power after 20 years of US occupation of Afghanistan. Post-Saddam Iraq became dependent on Iran. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad stayed in power despite a CIA effort to overthrow him. Libya fell into a protracted civil war after a US-led NATO mission overthrew Muammar Gaddafi. Ukraine was bludgeoned on the battlefield by Russia in 2023 after the US secretly scuttled a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine in 2022.
To understand the foreign-policy scam, think of today’s federal government as a multi-division racket controlled by the highest bidders.
Despite these remarkable and costly debacles, one following the other... READ MOREhttps://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corruption-of-us-foreign-policy
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