If you want to be an American TV talking
head or a Western presstitute, you are required to be brain-dead and
integrity-challenged like Bill O’Reilly, CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times,
Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and all the rest.
In an interview with President Donald Trump,
O’Reilly said: “Putin is a killer.”
O’Reilly is indifferent to the fact that
thermo-nuclear war is a killer of planet Earth. For O’Reilly, President Trump’s
desire to normalize relations with Russia is an indication that the President
of the US is comfortable making deals with killers as if America’s last three
presidents have not been mass killers comfortable with their destruction in
whole or part of many countries and millions of peoples.
President Trump’s response to O’Reilly’s
was: “We’ve got a lot of killers. What do you think – our country’s so
innocent?”
The only thing wrong with President Trump’s
response is that it implicitly accepts that Putin is no different from Obama,
George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Yet there is no evidence that Putin is a
“killer.” This accusation is an assertion from those who prosper from having a
“Russian threat” to keep the money and power flowing to themselves.
As
Finian Cunningham shows, Trump should have reprimanded O’Reilly for his
unsupported and undiplomatic accusation against the president of a country with
which President Trump hopes to restore normal
relations.
President Trump’s statement of an obvious
fact was quickly branded “defense of a killer” by congressional Republicans,
Hillary Democrats, the liberal, progressive, left-wing, and the Western
presstitutes.
Even online sites, such as politico.com,
jumped in to criticize “Donald Trump’s defense of Vladimir Putin’s homicidal
history.” Allegations of “Putin’s homicidal history” are astonishing after 24
years of Washington’s genocide against Muslins in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia,
Yemen, Pakistan, and Syria, and non-Muslims in Yugoslavia and the Russian
regions of Ukraine. Washington ranks as one of the worst mass murderers in
human history, but the Western presstitutes brand Putin as the one who is
homicidal.
Listen
to these members of Congress who represent Americans in Washington:
Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnel (R, Ky) said referring to the thrice elected President of Russia: “He’s a thug.” McConnel
has gone along with Washington’s mass murder of peoples for 15 years, and this
accomplice to mass murder said that Washington’s murder of countless millions,
which have sent refugees all over the Western world, are not evidence against
America. In his response to Trump’s statement, McConnel actually said: “We
don’t operate in any way the way the Russians do. I think there’s a clear
distinction here that all Americans understand, and I would not have characterized
it that way.”
The
Republican senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, said: “We are not the same as
Putin.” Of course, we aren’t. We are mass murderers.
The Republican senator from Nebraska, Ben
Sasse, said, and this is a level of ignorance hard to believe even for
Americans, that “Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates
political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about
places or ideas that are in conflict [as at Cal Berkeley]. There is no moral
equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving
nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in Putin’s
defense of his cronyism.”
The Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens
said: “Trump puts the US on a moral par with Putin’s Russia. Never in history
has a President slandered his country like this.”
No,
Bret, you have it backward. No US president has ever slandered Russia like
this. There is no moral equivalency between Washington and Moscow. Washington
is totally devoid of all morality. Russia is not. It is not Russia that has murdered,
maimed, and displaced peoples in at least 9 countries in the last 15 years,
sending refugees all over the Western world, some of whom no doubt bear
legitimate grudges.
Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, rushed to tell NBC
that Trump didn’t mean that Washington is not morally superior to Putin’s
Russia. Of course, the US is morally superior to everyone. The millions of
peoples we kill and dislocate are proof of our unquestioned moral superiority.
Every time we bomb a wedding, a funeral of the wedding guests, a children’s
soccer game, innumerable hospitals and medical centers, schools, farms, public
transportation, we exceptional and indispensable Americans are demonstrating
our moral superiority over the Earth. Only the morally superior can commit vast
crimes against humanity without being held accountable.
Normal relations with Russia do not seem to
be in the cards. The demonization and lies will continue. The New Cold War is
too important to the ruling establishment, and to the members of the House and
Senate who are dependent on military/security campaign donations, for Trump to
be allowed to normalize relations with Russia.
Everything that Reagan and Gorbachev achieved
has been undone. The material interest of a few has again placed humanity at
risk.
“The greatest freedom loving nation in the
history of the world” can’t even have a debate about it, because a debate is
Putin apologetics and moral equivalency.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been
reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition
of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored
with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the
protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.
Copyright © 2017 Paul Craig Roberts
