"If America Stopped Destroying The World, The Bad Guys Might Win":

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Might Win":

This “What we do is good because we’re the Good Guys” faith-based doctrine was regurgitated with full-throated zealotry in a recent speech given by Pompeo in Cairo, in which he cited “America’s innate goodness” in making the absolutely ridiculous claim that “America is a force for good in the Middle East” which has been “absent too much” from the region previously. America’s nonstop deadly interventionism in the Middle East is “good”, because America is “innately good”.

America’s constant military interventionism, election interference and other nastiness are painted as Good Things done by Good Guys to fight the Bad Guys.

The argument, when you boil it right down, is that if America wasn’t constantly starting wars, invading sovereign nations, staging coups, sponsoring proxy conflicts, arming terrorists, bombing civilians, torturing people, implementing starvation sanctions on impoverished populations, pointing nuclear weapons everywhere, spying on us all with a globe-spanning Orwellian surveillance network, interfering in foreign elections, and patrolling the skies with flying death robots, the Bad Guys might win.

Sort of makes you wonder who the Bad Guys really are, huh?
 
What is the difference between the behavior of the United States, which remains far and away the single worst offender in foreign election meddling on the planet, and what Russia is accused of having done in 2016?
According to a comment made by former CIA Director James Woolsey last year, it’s that the US interferes in foreign democracies “for a very good cause.”

And that’s really the only argument that empire loyalists have going for them on this subject.
The US is different because the US has moral authority. It’s okay for the US to continue to interfere in the political affairs of foreign nations while it would be an unforgivable and outrageous “act of war” for a nation like Russia to do the exact same thing, because the US is countering the interests of the Bad Guys while Russia is countering the interests of the Good Guys. Who decided who the Good Guys and Bad Guys are in this argument?

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/...S11sLnEiH64_4ISJbjBXK8bsVjBOL8N3tXUzaj_uHh5k4
 
Tranquillus in Exile said:
Obama was criticized for being "too timid" and trying to limit American involvement in the M.E. Did you go along with that?

Here is an opinion of Caitlin Johnstone, the Australian writer of the article you quoted. I don't know how much of this is fair or accurate.

http://progressivearmy.com/2018/02/...strut-in-a-wikileaks-and-consortium-news-web/
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History
Over the spring and summer of 2017, Johnstone begged progressives to collaborate with the fascist rape-apologist Mike Cernovich and promoted a green-brown alliance between yet another fascist — Robert “child sex slave colonies on Mars” Steele — and former Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney.

In one of her several pleads, Johnstone claimed American fascists “are mostly decent people with a solid moral code”.

Yep, you read that correctly.

This careless statement is in obvious contrast to a range of killings, assaults and other forms of bigotry inspired by the rise of American/Trumpian neo-fascism. A recent report compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center titled ‘The Alt-Right is Killing People’ summarizes some of this data.

I decided to raise questions when the Green Party’s David Cobb thought it wise to promote Johnstone’s Strasserist philosophy on Jill Stein’s Green News Network.

Happily, and as a likely result of reporting in Counterpunch, the Progressive Army, and other outlets, the Green Party wisely dropped Johnstone as a political commentator.

After this episode, I hoped Johnstone would either abandon politics (at least as it relates to the left), start writing for Breitbart News or revert back to astrology.
 
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