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âUS leadershipââand other euphemisms for war
If the pundits get their way, Biden could secure âU.S. global leadershipâ by flattening large parts of the planet.
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Joe Biden doesnât become president for a month and a half, but already sections of the corporate media are calling on him to use U.S. power to dominate the world.
Typically these calls are couched in benign-sounding euphemisms. For instance,
CNBC (11/21/20) ran an article headlined, âHow Biden Can Restore US Global Leadership
After Trumpâs Retreat From International Institutions,â which of course
presumes that America ought to be planetary chief, despite the vast
Faced with the threat of a country that has long pledged to wipe Israel off the face of the map gaining access to the weapon that would enable it to carry out its stated ambition, one might understand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reluctance over the United States’ potential re-entry into the nuclear deal with Iran.
But in the eyes of Jackson Diehl, the
Washington Post‘s deputy editorial page editor, Netanyahu’s attempts at preventing a devastating war erupting in the Middle East constitute a “militant stand” against one of President-elect Joe Biden’s core policy pledges.
In an opinion piece published December 6 entitled,
counter. that s me. he used the word castrated and i was going to say that senator corker told my colleague jackson diehl that the secretary of state had been castrated, but feels to me, sorry, guys, and women of the republican party, their fellow senators seem kind of neutered. i totally disagree. i think when you see the president do things like the statements after the charlottesville rally, saw people like cory gardner, tim scott, marco rubio, quick to step out and say those statements were wrong. on russia, republicans especially in the senate doing a serious investigation. passed additional sanctions over the white house s objections have been willing to stabbed ndo the president, maybe not as much as some would like, but you do see it and while at the same time trying to get stuff done. two words in response to that, which are gillespie ads. those ads are an illustration from ed gillespie, establishment
and what you saw this weekend was the fruition of that strategy of pressure plus incentives. yes, we re going to hammer you if you keep going on with your program, but if you want to give it up, let s make a deal. we can reincorporate you, we can manage our differences. diplomacy works. joe, what do you make of both the substantive nature of the complaint but also the political import of israel s stated, loud, vociferous objections to this? obviously, israel is the most important u.s. ally in the world, probably, in terms of matters of that part of the world, certainly, and their concerns are taken very, very seriously across the political spectrum here. what do you make of those voiced objections? well, very interesting. when i debated an israeli defense official, retired general this weekend in halifax at a security conference in fact, jackson diehl, the man who wrote that washington post editorial, was there, was a moderator. and i found that publicly, he had a very strident