The United States invented al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. By overthrowing Saddam, the United States enabled al-Qaeda in Iraq. The regime change attempt by CIA-supported Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria enabled the resurgence of al-Qaeda in Syria, which then morphed into ISIS. The CIA regime-change proxy war forced the re-positioning of the Syrian Army to defensible positions. That meant a withdrawal from Eastern Syria and redeployment for the defense of the Damascus population centers. That in turn created the power vacuum in Eastern Syria that enabled the creation of ISIS in Syria, the re-invasion of Iraq, and the creation of the ISIS Caliphate.

The Neocon-subverted/Israel-subverted US remains the world's foremost "useful idiot" state sponsor of jihadi terrorism,... on behalf of Israel.

So the entire shjtstorm in the Mideast is entirely the result of the United States Neocon-dominated, State Department-directed foreign policy, which, simply put, is the United States acting as Israel's bjtch.

HRC under Obama "uncorked" Libya, and along with the CIA-initiated (on behalf of Israel) Syria killing fields, open the African and Syrian Arab "refugee" floodgates to Europe.

Welcome to the world devastated by the Zionists. The United States subverted -- turned into Israel's bjtch -- by AIPAC and the neocons. With the centerpiece of United States foreign policy the Wolfowitz -- arch Neocon Zionist agent -- Doctrine: "The American jackboot must forever remain on the world's throat."

The conquest of America by Israel is complete. The looting of America by the Neo-liberals is complete. And as for Mr. Trump, rather than Trump draining the Swamp, the Swamp appears to have drained him.

Only two glimmers of hope remain. First, Trump still has 2 years and 9 months to go in which to turn things around, And second, the people who voted for Trump -- and Bernie -- to fix the broken US, are still out there, and still committed to the revolt against a corrupt system controlled by "the owners of this country".

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So if and when Trump turns out to be unable -- not tough enough -- to take down those who have subverted and looted the country, someone else will come along, someone who ***WILL BE*** tough enough.

Trump is merely the opening act.

Great comment. We can but hope you're right that "someone who ***WILL BE*** tough enough" will come along.

How many more Iraq Wars? Even now, there is no stable Iraq in sight, just more war that has not solved any of the underlying problems created by Dubya's "creative destruction."

This dumpster fire keeps rolling, because we lit off a really big dumpster and have been feeding the flames instead of doing anything likely to put it out.

USA is the military arm of the Anglo-Zionist triad. London is its financial epicenter and Israel is its ideological fount. The plans were agreed upon at the Jonathan Center in 1979-1984, to employ terrorism as the casus belli for imperial conquest everywhere not yet owned.

It's interesting that Saddam Hussein had absolutely no problem maintaining internal security in Iraq (with the occasional assassination attempt) for over 2 decades - yet All the Empire's horses and all the Empire's men, can't put [the Iraqi] Humpty-Dumpty together again.

I'm pretty sure that if the Iraqi citizenry could click their heels and be back in early 1990 (armed with the knowledge that April Glaspie's 'green light' for the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was a typically-American dishonest ruse) they would leap at the chance.

It's funny how things go - Saddam Hussein was the US's proxy in the US attempt to make Iran atone for chucking out the US's puppet (Reza Pahlavi)... he must've thought that the US government has some internal sense of loyalty to its satraps and Quislings. Silly man.

It's the Frog[1] and the Scorpion: the US Death Machine has never been true to its word, and is institutionally incapable of being true to its word. That has been the case since the first interactions between white settlers and Indians.

It is for this reason that Kim Jong-Un would be a complete fool to give up his nuclear weapons and delivery systems (he should - and he will - continue to negotiate for Korean re-unification; his first step should be getting the SKors to tell the US Death Machine to leave its territory)

[1] When discussing relations with the US, the Frog/Scorpion version is a better 'fit' than the original "Turtle/Scorpion" version, since the frog dies when the scorpion acts 'as its nature dictates' - in the original Turtle/Scorpion formulation the scorpion is foiled and is killed.

The snake of civilization, returns to the valley to begin feeding on its tail.