The
crisis gripping the US state apparatus is directly threatening the
survival of the Empire. This is no longer merely the opinion of Thierry
Meyssan, but the subject that is shaking the ruling class in Washington
to the point that the honorary president of the Council on Foreign
Relations is demanding the resignation of the chief advisers of
President Obama and the appointment of a new team. This clash has
nothing to do with a typical opposition of Democrats and Republicans,
nor even with that of the doves / hawks. What is at stake is leadership
in the United States and NATO.
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Editores, 2008).
- Barack Obama’s Cabinet.
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- Thierry Meyssan
Intelectual francês, presidente-fundador da Rede Voltaire e da conferência
Axis for Peace. As suas análises sobre política externa publicam-se na
imprensa árabe, latino-americana e russa.
Última obra em francês: L’Effroyable imposture: Tome 2, Manipulations et
désinformations (ed. JP Bertrand, 2007).
Última obra publicada em Castelhano (espanhol): La gran impostura II.
Manipulación y desinformación en los medios de comunicación (Monte Ávila
For several months now, I’ve been noting that there
is no foreign policy in Washington, but two factions that oppose each
other in all things and separately conduct contradictory and
inconsistent policies. [
1]
The climax of this situation has been reached in Syria, where the
White House first organized the moult of Daesh and sent it to ethnically
cleanse Iraq, then fought it even though the CIA continues to support
it. This inconsistency has gradually spread to the Allies. Thus, France
joined the anti-Daesh coalition while some of its legionaries are part
of the Daesh cadre [
2].
When the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, requested written clarification, he not only received no answer, but he was fired. [
3]
The disorder soon spread to NATO, an alliance created to fight the
USSR and maintained against Russia, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan signed gigantic economic agreements with Vladimir Putin. [
4]
Coming out of his silence, the honorary chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations [
5], Leslie H. Gelb, sounded the alarm. [
6]
He said that "the Obama team lacked basic instincts and judgment to
lead the national security policy in the next two years." And he
continued, on behalf of the US ruling class as a whole: "President Obama
needs to replace his team with strong personalities and experienced
strategists. He should also place new people as Senior Advisors to the
Secretaries of Defense and State. And he must finally implement regular
consultations with Bob Corker, the chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, and John McCain [
7], the chairman of the Armed Services Committee. »
Never, since its creation in 1921, has the Council on Foreign
Relations taken such a position. This is because the divisions within
the state apparatus are leading the United States directly to doom.
Listing the main advisers, which, according to him, must leave, Mr.
Gelb cites four people very close intellectually and emotionally to the
President: Susan Rice (National Security Advisor), Dennis McDonough
(Chief of Staff of the White House), Benjamin Rhodes (Communications)
and Valerie Jarrett (Foreign Policy Advisor). The ruling class in
Washington accuses them of never submitting original proposals to the
president, much less contradicting him, but always humouring him in his
prejudices.
The only personality to find favor in the eyes of the Council on
Foreign Relations, Anthony Blinken, new No. 2 at the State Department,
is a "liberal hawk".
The Council on Foreign Relations being a bipartisan body, Mr. Gelb
proposes that President Obama surround himself by four Democrats and
four Republicans corresponding to the profile he described. First the
Democrats: Thomas Pickering (former ambassador to the United Nations),
Winston Lord (former assistant to Henry Kissinger), Frank Wisner
(unofficially one of the bosses of the CIA and incidentally Nicolas
Sarkozy’s stepfather) and Michèle Flournoy (the President of the Center
for a New American Security) [
8]. Then, Republicans Robert Zoellick (former head of the World Bank) [
9], Richard Armitage (former assistant to Colin Powell) [
10],
Robert Kimmitt (probable next boss of the World Bank), and Richard Burt
(former negotiator on the reduction of nuclear weapons).
For Secretary of Defense, Mr. Gelb offers Rabbi Dov Zakheim to manage budget cuts [
11], Admiral Mike Mullen (former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) and General Jack Keane (former Chief of Staff of the Army).
Finally, Mr. Gelb proposes that the national security strategy be
developed in consultation with the four "wise men": Henry Kissinger [
12] Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, [
13] and James Baker. [
14]
Looking more closely at this list, we understand that the Council on
Foreign Relations did not want to decide between the two opposing groups
within the Obama administration, but it intends to restore order in the
system from above. In this regard, it is not irrelevant in a country
thus far led by WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) that two
counsellors whose dismissals are required are black women, while
fourteen of the fifteen incoming names are white males, either
Protestant or Ashkenazi. The political housekeeping is also therefore an
ethnic and religious takeover.
