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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Andrew Alexander
17:30 EST, 29 May 2012
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17:36 EST, 29 May 2012
That powerful phrase ‘lions led by donkeys’ — the German view of British troops in World War I — keeps springing to mind when studying Afghanistan.
We shall leave by the end of 2014, we are assured, having achieved nothing beyond helping to recruit countless numbers to the ranks of the Taliban. We shall leave the place with its own modernised armed forces, we are also assured — so much better fitted to fight a looming civil war.
The bigger question is why do we get involved in doomed American military expeditions — and get tarred with the same brush as part of the Western war on Islam, making Britain at large a target for terrorists? Iraq and Afghanistan both tell the same tale.
Conflict: We are told that we will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014
Vietnam was a near thing in terms of backing the Americans.
Harold Wilson was inclined to make a helpful gesture in that doomed war, and was only stopped by his own backbenchers. The prospect of further involvement in American lost causes has been clearly stated by our chief donkey, Sir David Richards, head of the Defence Staff.
He argues that the defence budget should be organised so we can back up American policy — whatever that might be. In other words, we must continue 50 years of crawling along abjectly in the wake of Washington.
Leaving Afghanistan obviously does not appeal to Richards, since he predicted last year that Britain would have a presence in the country for the ‘next 30/40 years’. The idea that Afghanistan will happily settle for being treated like a colony or client state betrays sheer incomprehension.
Sir David Richards has argued that our defence budget should be organised so we can assist American policy
Hope that the Americans, badly bruised by the Middle East and before that by Vietnam, have learnt any lessons are hopelessly optimistic. Richards’ counterpart in Washington, General Martin Dempsey, has explained in an article in Foreign Affairs Magazine that the U.S. will now look to extend its role into the Far East.
At this rate the future looks no brighter than the past. Relations with Pakistan, as U.S. drones continue their deadly work in the country’s North-West border region, are deteriorating dangerously.
As President Obama launches his presidential campaign, we have to remember his lamentable record.
He came to office promising to close Guantanamo Bay (still open) and to accelerate the withdrawal from Afghanistan, still set with a whiff of vagueness at ‘by the end of 2014’. He adds firmly that this timetable is ‘irreversible’.
Politicians say that sort of thing when they know their promises are mistrusted.
What is the point of having a posh Prime Minister when he turns up at a wedding in a lounge suit? But at least he had a tie. We have to be thankful for small mercies.
Load up the sandbags! The euro is about to bomb at last
Rather as the Bank of England was blocked up with cement and sandbags during the war, the Old Lady is now preparing for the worst — not quite Hitler’s bombs, more the fall-out from Greece.
It is quite a marvel in its way that the crisis has gone on this long. The precise date when it became clear even to the blind and the wilfully deaf that Greece had had it will no doubt fill a number of articles by learned academics dealing with the history of banking. A common sense view is that Greek membership of the Eurozone was doomed from the start.
Step forward those who thought that the system could work. Oh, dear — such a large number.
Grexit: It is almost unbelievable that the crisis in the eurozone has gone on this long
Now step forward those who could not see that once Greece left, others were bound to follow as night follows day. Another large number! It is to be hoped that this does not include the people who are looking after your savings, dear reader. It certainly does include some who are directly or indirectly in charge of pension funds.
You yourself may say that you are never taken in by politicians. But your pension managers may well be.
This is one of the biggest fears about the medium-term future: lots of people retiring on much less than they had planned for, a new class of the elderly dispossessed. In the circumstances we should look askance at the Cameron/Osborne appeal that pension funds should get involved in a major renewal of the nation’s infrastructure.
Possibly there are fruitful investments to be made. But it is no part of the pension funds’ job to fulfil the wishes of politicians.
They are bound in law to make as much money as possible for their members. In the Eurozone, many banks are paying the price for obeying appeals from their governments to buy, and thus prop up, official debt.
If there is a thoroughly messy outcome of Greece’s departure, a lot of the ordinary man’s savings will be at risk.
Perhaps the only thing the euro zone’s managers fear most about a Greek departure is that it will be, though costly, a neat affair. If so, others on the periphery will follow, including Spain (obviously) and then Italy.
The only certainty is that the euro has had it, one way or another. Put out the sandbags! And hope your pension fund managers have done the same.
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Britain doesn’t have to be led anywhere it doesn’t want to go. If Britain doesn’t want to join America’s war, that of course is its right. And America need not join any of Britain’s wars. But for Britain to provide the falsified intelligence reports on WMD that got America into Iraq, and then to complain about being drawn into America’s wars is wrong.
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Well we all know how ingenious American arms companies are when it comes to prising open and plundering the set-aside war-chest money. Theyll even shoot their own president to get at it
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