The Bloody-Jawed Wolf Offers Peace and Prepares For War

What country incinerates and massacres literally millions of people for domination and empire, and then decades later pats itself on the back for returning to the scene of its towering crimes, not to make amends, but to utter a few peace platitudes, hug a few survivors, and lay a wreath or two—all to serve current military contention with other powers and possibly slaughter even greater numbers than before?

Answer: America under “peace” President Barack Obama.

Exhibit A: Obama’s May 22-27 trip to Asia.

Obama’s first stop was Vietnam. In 1961, the U.S. invaded this California-size country—a country that is nearly 8,000 miles away from the U.S. and had never committed anything that could remotely be conceived as an aggressive act against it. The U.S. then went on a 14-year rampage of mass murder and terror—bombing, burning, massacring, and poisoning three million Vietnamese to death.

Did Obama apologize for this horror? Are you kidding? He papered over and even justified U.S. war crimes: the two countries had a “difficult history” and were “pulled into conflict,” as if they were both at fault. There was “pain and the sacrifices on both sides,” he said, as if 58,000 Americans counted for as much as three million Vietnamese whose whole country had been napalmed, carpet bombed, and poisoned. And capping it off, he claimed the U.S. stood for the principle: “Big nations should not bully smaller ones.”

Then, on May 27, Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in Hiroshima, Japan. Did he come to apologize on behalf of the United States for incinerating and irradiating more than 200,000 people to death there and in Nagasaki? For unleashing nuclear horror on humanity as the first and only country to ever use nuclear weapons? For justifying this slaughter with the bald-faced lie that it was necessary to avert an even bloodier invasion? Apologize? Get serious!

Obama acted like the U.S. nuke dropped itself – “death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” he began his speech in Hiroshima. He put the entire blame for the war on Japan. Then he supposedly paid homage to the victims, hugged a few survivors, and laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Of course, even here he had to make a big deal about the handful of U.S. prisoners of war who were killed by the bomb! And then, with a straight, sincere face, he pledged to work for a world free of nuclear weapons—all this with his finger on the world’s deadliest nuclear arsenal, and more importantly, as he orders $1 trillion (yes, you read that right, $1 trillion!) to be spent to expand and modernize the U.S.’s nuclear arsenal. The hypocrisy is astounding. It further continues when you consider that he’s cut fewer nukes from the U.S. arsenal than any president in the last 25 years, including George W. Bush.

All this would guarantee Obama a place in the lying, hypocritical, mass murderer hall of shame, but it wasn’t even the worst of it. All his excusing and justifying past crimes was part of getting ready for crimes to come.

As Obama traveled through Asia, preaching morality, peace, and reconciliation, powerful U.S. warships loaded with weapons of mass destruction were trolling the tense waters of the South China Sea, challenging and playing cat and mouse games with Chinese planes and warships. Obama didn’t mention China in his Vietnam and Hiroshima speeches. But this points to what his trip was really about: building up alliances and military power to aggressively confront and contain China, with violence and war if need be.

What the Hell Are U.S. Warships Doing in the South China Sea?

The South China Sea is at the southwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean and links it to the Indian Ocean. It’s one of the world’s key trade and transit routes, through which some $5 trillion worth of goods are shipped each year. And beneath these waters lie potentially enormous reserves of oil and natural gas.

China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam all border the South China Sea and all have competing territorial claims. In recent years, China has moved aggressively there, building up various reefs and shoals into actual islands that it is claiming as its own. (China has added more than 3,200 acres of land to build these up since 2013.) Some are basically military bases, complete with runways, and China claims it has the right to control navigation through the nearby waters.

Pardon us, but the last time we looked, the South China Sea was not Lake Fucking Michigan or even the Gulf of Mexico. The South China Sea lies halfway around the world from U.S. shores! The U.S. has no claims there that could be considered legitimate by any stretch of the imagination—but it has huge economic interests ($1.2 trillion worth of U.S.-traded goods goes through the South China Sea every year), and a crucial part of U.S. global dominance is its overall control of world trade and navigation. So the U.S. claims the “maritime freedom” to send its warships (and project military power) to pretty much any corner of the globe, including through the South China Sea. The U.S. will “continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows,” Obama declared in February...  Read entire article