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In his farewell address to the people of the United States, George Washington warned that:
a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
The aim of this political weblog is to inform about the “variety of evils” that ensue from America’s (and some other countries’) passionate attachment to Israel.
Creator and Editor
Maidhc Ó Cathail is an investigative journalist and Middle East analyst. In addition to writing a monthly column for a popular Irish language magazine, his work has been published by Antiwar.com, Arab News, Forward Magazine (Syria), Journal of Turkish Weekly, Khaleej Times, Ma’an News Agency, Middle East Monitor, Palestine Chronicle, Tehran Times, The Nation (Pakistan), Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and many more. Ó Cathail is the creator and editor of The Passionate Attachment blog, which focuses primarily on the U.S.-Israeli relationship. He has been interviewed by Press TV, Sahar TV, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, and Jeff Blankfort’s “Takes on the World” programme on California National Public Radio station KZYX. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter @O_Cathail.
A note on pronunciation: For those unfamiliar with the eccentricities of Irish orthography (i.e. almost everyone), my given name, Maidhc, is simply the Irish spelling of “Mike.” My surname, Ó Cathail, is pronounced something like “Oh-Caw-hill.”
Contributors
Jeff Blankfort is a Middle East analyst who has written extensively on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is a former editor of the Middle East Labor Bulletin, a photo journalist and currently hosts a program on international affairs called “Takes on the World” for KZYX, the public radio station of Mendocino County in California.
Jeff Gates is a widely acclaimed author, attorney, investment banker, educator and consultant to government, corporate and union leaders worldwide. His latest book is Guilt By Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War.
Philip Giraldi is the executive director of the Council for the National Interest and a recognized authority on international security and counterterrorism issues.
Stephen J. Sniegoski is the author of The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel.
On Tue, 5/29/12, NO Entangling Alliances wrote:
Thursday late, May 17th ~ interrupted by ten day Israeli Occupied Ameri(K)a Depression Break ~ Resumed on Sunday May 27th, 2012 AD, and continued, ( & completed?), on Corporate Monday Holiday “Memorial Day”/”Decoration Day” May 28th, 2012 AD and into the wee hours and beyond on Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 AD.
ASSESSING RON PAUL’S LEGACY? OBITUARY TALK? THE “LAST MONEY BOMB”? PRESIDENT OBOMNEY? WHOA PARDNER, HOLD ON HERE! WE WANT TO HEAR RON’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS, NOT HIS EULOGY!! VICTORY NOW, NOT “BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE”! RON NOW, NOT RAND AND THE OTHERS SOMEDAY. WE’RE NEEDY CITIZENS IN NEED OF A “TURNAROUND” NOW, NOT POLITICAL INVESTOR SPECULATORS. WE”VE GOT A DYING COUNTRY UNDER VICIOUS INFECTIOUS ASSAULT FROM WITHIN, NOT A CIVICS PROJECT!! A “DYING PATIENT” IN NEED OF A REAL DOCTOR, NOT A CHOICE BETWEEN A PAIR OF HAPPY FACE CLOWNS WITHOUT A DIME’S WORTH OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM, OR THE ENTIRELY BOGUS POLITICAL “PARTIES” WHO STAND TO GAIN FROM THEIR “ELECTION” AND WHO ARE DEEPLY THREATENED BY ANY SIGNS OF AUTHENTIC INTEGRITY.
OUR 2012 CENTS WORTH ………… UNSOLICITED.
Mr John Tate, Ron Paul 2012 Campaign Manager
Dear John,
I have just now, moments before midnight California time, made our embarrassingly modest $20.12 contribution to the Ron Paul May 17th Money Bomb ~ which we most certainly hope is NOT the “last of Ron Paul’s political career” but rather one of many, many more to come for years and years to come! Indeed, why not monthly? Wouldn’t that amount to $20.12 x 12 = $241.44 per year? And if 1000 patriot families gave that, wouldn’t that come to $241,440.00 in a year, or $2,414,400.00 from 10,000 families, or $24,144,000 from 100,000 families, or $241,440,000 from a “million family march” for freedom and to recover our lost America? Pretty soon you’re talking about some REAL money!! We could afford that. Every family could. We could get our country back.
Or, maybe even, $2,414,400,000.00 from ten million proud patriot Paul families? 2.4144 BILLION!! Why not?? We ten million can afford that, and OUR beloved “homeland” is worth it, a mere fraction of what is extorted from us every year so that Israel can enslave Palestine, and many times what the Israel Firsters spend in stolen money to thoroughly corrupt our political process here in OUR “homeland”. Maybe we could ALL pool together ~ our money, sweat, hearts and souls, indeed, maybe even “our lives, our honor and our sacred fortunes” ~ and ACTING TOGETHER as AMERICA FIRSTERS buy back our beloved country: buy her BACK from the traitorous vermin who have enslaved her and disgraced us throughout the world with their murderous, arrogant policies, AND PRACTICES!! They who have turned our mercenary youngest and best into murderers, war criminals, killers, cripples and corpses. A thousand year stain on our history committed since 9/11 and under ten bad presidents since the 1960′s, and since 1945 and 1933 and 1917 and 1898.
Why can’t WE buy our sweetheart Miss Liberty out of bondage? Why not? Don’t let us down President Paul. Don’t leave us now. Without YOU we will be NOTHING again, and with no hope in sight and these worthless bastards who have been having their way with us sooo long now already will be even WORSE, emboldened by your acceptance of this fraudulent “victory” by this year’s Mitt & Barry “Obomney Twins” and the CORRUPT Tweedledee and Tweedledum political whorehouse duopoly these types have imposed on us since the earliest days of these evil “political parties”, made worse by the 12th amendment which mainstreamed these swinish opportunists plundering at the public trough, no better than the party hacks of the old USSR, while the 99% they have such contempt for toil and pay for their “honorable” titles and limousines and perks, prestige, privileges and pensions. What a generation of vipers they are! Money changers in the temples of our democracy.
While we are all HOPELESSLY in debt to the GREAT and “tireless minority” of freedom fighters of the Paul Campaigns and R3VOLUTION, and the Tea Party movement, America’s very own RAF, including the high commands thereof and also our esteemed founder and leader Dr. Ron Paul, not too mention those earlier unsung heroes and heroines ~ true conservatives of the paleo stripe, and NOT neocon cheerleaders for war and welfare and nanny state cartel fascism: yes, we are hopelessly indebted to the TRUE America First and Last and ONLY conservatives who have fought against the mindless collectivism of the socialist left for over one hundred years ~ nay, longer still, and since even before the Nazi, New Deal, Communist, Fascist, Imperialist, Zionist, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Hirohito, Tojo, Mussolini era WWII dictators were in knee pants and Karl Marx and his Yiddish homeboys were brewing these poisonous and intellectually threadbare socialist hemlock cocktails of dependency and despair.
We are ALL indebted to this RON PAUL 2012 campaign! Where would we be without you?
UNFORTUNATELY, a few harsh words of disappointment regarding the abrupt, and IDIOTIC recent change announced with such TERRIBLE TIMING this past Monday May 14th ON THE EVE OF THE NEBRASKA, and even worse, what SHOULD have been the VERY WINNABLE OREGON PRIMARY, and just two weeks and three weeks respectively before the CRUCIAL Texas and California Primaries and nearing the END OF THE PRIMARY SEASON. What gives?? Who is responsible for this MADNESS? A sabotuer? OFF WITH HIS HEAD!! WHAT IS GOING ON??
REVERSE THIS LATEST ERROR AND TEST EVERYONE INVOLVED FOR DRUGS, CONFUSION OR CLOSET OBOMNEY SENTIMENTS!! Our strategy SHOULD have been to go “all out” for Oregon ~ “the west coast’s New Hampshire” ~ and leverage that UP into a strong showing in Texas two weeks later and a week after that California Here We Come!!
WHY are we ALWAYS assuming we can’t win?? WHY are we talking retirement and legacy and “last money bomb” at a time when voter registration is still open in California and elsewhere? WHY are we doing EVERYTHING imaginable to drive enthusiasm DOWN and voter turnout DOWN when we want it to go UP???? IT IS UTTERLY INSANE!!! Who is the author of this lunacy?
( Interrupted 10 days by a recurrent Israeli Occupied Ameri(K)a Depression Break ~ Resumed on Sunday May 27th, 2012. GO RPM R3VOLUTION!!!)
The Paul Campaign needs to STOP buying, and now actually CO-PROMOTING, this “Good War” Establishment/Moron Media Party Line that Mitt Romney is:
#1), the inevitable, “presumptive”, and deserving, “consensus” Republican nominee, and,
#2), that he somehow “earned” and is entitled to the nomination based on a paltry 6,352,843 national lamestream media directed votes allegedly “cast” in some 40 odd primaries and caucuses and,
#3), the companion delusion that a repeat of ANOTHER head in the sand “Loser McCain” warfare and Israel First candidacy Obama Lite campaign will “work” against an INCUMBENT Obama in 2012 any better than it did in the 2008 blowout loss to this New Deal “Happy Days” pander king now running with an even MORE evil heart as well as ALL of the powers and advantages of the office including the CERTAINTY, if indicated poll-wise ~ diagnostic x-rays to this devious Doctor Death ~ of an October Surprise attack on “Dangerous Iran” which war hawk military option Mitt can only accept and applaud, and, finally,
#4) that suddenly it is again now going to be “business as usual”, and the Paul “phenomenon” and “people” will simply fade away. Next animal act.
WELL, the “RPM” Ron Paul Movement “R3VOLUTION” is ON, and hereafter, NOTHING is going to be “as usual”! “Usual”? That’s over! Our time has come. NOW. THIS YEAR. THIS ELECTION.
RON PAUL. RON PAUL. RON PAUL ………….. PRESIDENT PAUL. PRESIDENT PAUL. PRESIDENT PAUL.
(Continued ~ & completed? ~ on Corporate Monday Holiday “Memorial Day”/”Decoration Day” May 28th, 2012 AD and into the wee hours and beyond on Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 AD.)
Mitt Romney is NOT entitled to this nomination based on getting less than 6.5 million votes in 40 odd primaries or caucuses against an ever changing musical chairs opposition of amateurs, walk-ons, stalking horses and Israel First funded “Good War” lunatics ~ Casino Adelson’s man Gingrich, the resurrected Pennsylvania’s rejected Senator Santorum are only the most notable of these bloodthirsty clowns tasked with keeping Romney “in place” at Israel’s beck and call as evil Bebe Netanyahu’s “best friend”, and easily the most violent in words of this year’s presidential aspirants in EITHER party ~ and with the chief opponent, and the ONE CANDIDATE whose message would resonate BEST with this year’s thrice cheated and financially ruined electorate ~ Dr. Ron Paul and his high school sweetheart and wife of 55 years Carol, with their five children including famous new senator son Rand and 19 gorgeous grandchildren and great-grandchildren too STRAIGHT OUT OF CENTRAL CASTING ~ being almost TOTALLY BLACKED OUT FROM COVERAGE AND IGNORED by the Israel First controlled media to the point of widespread ridicule. A fixed election. Over 40 of them, by an EVIL media. Romney’s claim is a tainted one!
A national disgrace, even in the banana republic we have become in the near half century since Dallas and the Liberty Massacre and the media and other institutions that make it all possible. It was disgusting and shameful to watch, and more painful to see it “wor(k)”.
If you accept that it has “worked”, if we all really do let it “work” as the traitors pulling the strings behind the curtain expect us to do. If you believe George Romney’s son’s handsome “goody two -shoes” shameful self-prostitution and betrayal ~ including for decades that of many, many others and most especially of our entire congress, house and senate, save one or two now and then, most notably Ron Paul and Paul Findley, and of all nine presidents, and of our castrated state department, defense and military leaders, and cabinet officers since that terrible day in Dallas 1963 ~ will “work”, AND that Mitt will actually get this nomination, rather than some “surprising changes” over the next three months, with Ron Paul further trivialised and driven into the shadows by the usual suspects playing piano down in the waiting room and answering to whorehouse management. Surprising changes perhaps involving good old Jeb, or some other presidential puppet more amenable to “station management” and the rest of the international oligarchy and without Mitt’s threatening “associations” and competing ethnocreedal ties ~ no Mormon need apply. Someone they can turn to “more comfortably” in November if they do “disinvest” from their 2008 warning shot to the Republicans and order a “new deck”. Time will tell …. of course. But, by then it will be too late. Again. Action must occur NOW!
And if you believe a Romney candidacy will “work” come November in turning this charming anti-christ swindler/charlatan out of office without any help, or much, from the Ron Paul brigades or other parts of the Republican base less enamored with sunshiney Mitt for “other” reasons, and not to mention the fearful pounding he will come under from the Obama class warfare and class envy demogogs on the left and those who will attempt to exploit Obama’s race in order to favor him ~ no white need apply ~ a la Kennedy 1960 with his poor me Catholic gaming, and as “happened” in the last Obama blitzkrieg with the enthusiastic support of those homogeneity hating perennial panderers of the ethnic balkaniser multiculturalist persuasion Dr. Kevin MacDonald has persuasively identified as our chief destroyers, along with the self-hating whites and yellow dog democrats who these big city bred and descendant peddler Demo schemers manipulate so well. The swine.
What will “work”? Notwithstanding the widespread disgust felt by so many for the slimey, fraudulent Obama, as felt before by many, including this writer who actually voted for the utterly despicable McCain SOLELY to avoid the even worse AIPAC supplicant/political whore Obama, and with many more Obama “disenchanted”/haters since added, including negative feelings about his too present and too bossy spouse, NONETHELESS, methinks the VERY LIKEABLE AND CHARMING Mitt Romney, and much liked by me, who strongly admired his father 45 years ago BECAUSE of the “brainwashing” comment he made in 1967 regarding his military directed “tour” of wartime Viet Nam, will NOT be able to defeat the sociopathic Obama ~ a sick leader for a sick culture and country ~ and that ALL Romney’s doings will have been in vain, in 2012, and in 2008 and in the Massachusetts statehouse and before. The whole political dream in vain! Why? Because he had no “politics”. No real values that way. Just career objectives. Like so many of our empty, failed leaders from Eisenhower on, and most before back to Washington. In the end, Mitt will lose. And the Republicans will lose, maybe in the congress as well. Most of all, America will have again lost, but this time when there was someone good finally we could have had, a last chance, a lost chance. Someone this time who “could have been a contender”, possibly our best president, and our very first “great” president.
Romney’s effort? It won’t have “worked”.
No. Willard Mitt Romney is NOT entitled, though he may be “qualified”, even if just another “empty suit” like Obama. Obama Lite? Obomney? Less than 6,500.000 votes is NOTHING, not many more than those who did NOT vote for Meg Whitman for Governor of California in 2010. More than twice that many eligible voters in California alone ~ 13 million plus in 2010 ~ simply fail to vote, and only 40% of those eligible take the trouble to register and then show up to vote, about 10.2 million out of, say, 23.5 million in California. Obama got about 65 million votes in 2008 ~ ten times this Romney primary harvest, and McCain 57 million for a total of 122 million with at least another 100 million, and many of those registered, simply staying home. It would have been easy for McCain to have beaten Obama, especially with Sarah Palin’s valuable help, even during the last week ~ IF HE HAD SAID ANYTHING SENSIBLE. But he didn’t. The war mongering killed him ~ “a hundred years of war”, etc.
Twenty million voters not very keen about Obama were right there for the asking, and Barry Dunham Obama Soetero would be an embarrassing trivia question, and the mystery cabal engineered, leftist exploited “September Surprise” 2008 economic meltdown would have fizzled out into just another squalid New York loan shark scandal and we would just be our normal beggar your brother, cheap sh*t from Asia, no industry, suicide sick economy rather than “super sick” and on FED steroids. But the ex-POW stuck with the crazy Loser McCain war monger rhetoric. And he lost. And we lost bigtime between two TERRIBLE candidates ~ even worse than BushKKKerry in 2004. Mitt’s six and a half million is not even a fraction of the sales tax on the 2012 body politic of 300 million plus. What claim? Romney has NO serious claim, and this same party would DROP HIM IN A HEARTBEAT if they came to believe he would lose. What if there was a buggering boyscouts scandal? You get the drift. A lot can happen twixt now and then. Ask Tim Pawlenty.
And, once again, these Republicans, and especially Mitt, are talking that same crazy, suck up to Israel, Bebe’s best buddy nonsense now and have been for a year. Lunacy for all but Zionists. This is McCain LOSER TALK!!
All but Ron, the ONLY one with any sense or integrity or dignity. The ONLY ONE WHO DESERVES TO BE NOMINATED AND ELECTED! THE ONLY ONE EVEN QUALIFIED IN THE FULLEST SENSE. The ONLY candidate, in EITHER PARTY, since Eisenhower ~ no perfect angel but a giant compared to most others before and ALL since ~ to be so qualified. By virtue of his Pennsylvania origins, Gettysburg College education, military service background and in other ways, not least his personal dignity, Ron is a very fitting successor to President Eisenhower. We need him and whoever he gets to help him. And so does the Republican Party if it is to survive.
We need him to go to Tampa just three months from now and the week after his 77th birthday, and to get that nomination, and as the ONLY Republican who can beat Obama. But more than that, Dr. Paul is the ONLY contemporary leader who can guide us out of the mess that has largely been created ~ other than those three big mistakes in 1913 ~ during his lifetime, and beginning shortly before then with the tragedy of the Franklin Roosevelt “New Deal” dictatorship beginning in 1933 alongside the Hitler period in Germany ~ DURING HIS LIFETIME from 1937 on!!
IF he cannot get that Republican Presidential nomination, and if Romney is not wise enough to realise that HE desperately needs Ron Paul in order to be elected, whether as President or Vice President, and even moreso to be able to govern with any prospect of success, and therefore realises that his policies and the party platform will need to be changed in order to accommodate Ron’s participation, and assuming this will not be the case, or that Romney will not be able to persuade Ron to this end, and is unwilling himself to subordinate himself to Ron, his senior by ten years, as he should do, then Ron MUST arrange to run as an independent candidate for President.
THIS IS HIS DUTY TO OUR COUNTRY. PERIOD. He may have to commence these alternative arrangements either now or very soon because of timing requirements, and probably well before the roll call in Tampa. This should not and need not be done with secrecy. There is nothing wrong with this. It is straightforward, honest and honorable. We are in a crisis equivalent to 1860!! Personal preferences or family needs have no place in this, nor do party loyalties. Just as Romney is not entitled to this nomination, which it is the duty of 1144 or more delegates to determine, so also does the party have no right to Ron Paul’s loyalty and support if he is not to be their choice. He IS our choice! The country needs him so he MUST make himself available, REGARDLESS!! We need him on that November ballot in all 50 states, or in at least enough to win 270 electoral votes. PERIOD.
The question of a running mate is an important one, and the ultimate success of either a Republican or an independent or “third party” success will probably depend upon it. The only chance that seems to exist for a Republican victory over the Obama machine given the current “cast” is Romney-Paul, or Paul-Romney since the Republicans have NO CHANCE if they do not incorporate the Paul and Tea Party followers. This may be a unique first in presidential politics, at least in “modern” times, a vice presidential candidate with a very large and strong following. Ron Paul has a solid minimum 10% even when shut out and blacked out. Imagine what it would be if he was on a major party national ticket and was receiving the kind of coverage his newsworthiness deserves but which the terrified Israel Firsters betraying America EVERY DAY have always denied to him!! One guesses he might, or would outpoll the top of the ticket! Completely unheard of and unumagined.
That is because he BELONGS on the top of the ticket, and always has as far back as 1988, and would be there now but for the Israel First NEWS BLACKOUT. Period. And, they KNOW once he gains access to the audience which they have tried so hard to deny to him THAT HIS MESSAGES WILL RESONATE WITH A HUGE MAJORITY NOT BEHOLDEN TO THE JEWISH SUPREMACIST AND ZIONIST AGENDAS, and that he will be MORE POPULAR than Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan, et al. PERIOD. Hence, the blackout. But, it is not sustainable, perhaps even if they get the world war they see as the only way out of the trouble they are in!
As to the independent/third party run. This is the most appealing option. These hopelessly corrupt major parties need to die. Indeed, why do we even need them?Judge Andrew Napolitano seems very good. I have no difficulty envisioning an almost inevitable Ron Paul victory in a three way race where 34% is good enough. But, the running mate is crucial.
The following may sound crazy, but not if one accepts the 1860 crisis comparison. In dire circumstances individuals must subordinate themselves to the greater good. Why, with so much at stake, could there not be a Ron Paul – Ralph Nader ticket? Or, the reverse. Imagine two men held in higher esteem. Why can we not call on our best people out of the tens of thousands we KNOW we have? Who is controlling the “filters” on our choices such that we always have the sorry bunch of average slugs we always get? At least Mitt Romney is much above that average even if we don’t really know what he “really thinks”.
Thank God for Ron Paul. He is one in a century and we MUST NOT LET HIM GET AWAY. We need Ron and Carol in OUR White House. We need to bring our troops and our bases home. We need to bring our jobs and our production home. We need to bring our country to home. WE NEED TO BE TO HOME. Bring us home Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Ernest Paul. We’ll be needing you for the full eight years. Best wishes.
Joe and Merry Boysen
Postscript: A few extra thoughts John, based on your letter. You shouldn’t assume that Ron Paul supporters have any much more regard for the Republican Party than the other one. I am a lifetime and recovering Republican of the non-interventionist paleoconservative Taft-Goldwater-Buchanan-Paul persuasion with a deep contempt for liberal Democrats, but consider both parties whores, especially since GW and would like to see both destroyed beyond hope of resurrection. Don’t imagine we are interested in the future of either or that we are libertarians or laissez faire anythings. We revere Ron Paul and have confidence in him even though we may not agree with some things and wish he would be harder on others, such as Israeli lawlessness and militarism with OUR equipment. We have confidence in his integrity. We trust him. Don’t let us down. I hope something is being done to get the vote out in Texas today. What about California? Can’t you all just go out there for this last week and take a run at it, free media, etc.?? Don’t think victory and the White House can’t occur! Cheers, Joe Boysen
Joe Boysen
May 31, 2012 at 8:12 pm
Very nice anti Semite group in this site…….
Abe Bird (@AbeBird)
September 26, 2012 at 5:39 pm