Here I am on the Dutch television program “Nieuwsuur,” with former Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra, discussing the futility of air strikes to resolve the Iraq/Syria/ISIS mess.
After a setup in Dutch by the anchor, and an Obama speech clip, the interview (about three minutes in) is in English.
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Zareen said...
1Thank you for being the voice of reason and sanity. Hope you’ll appear on an American news program sometime soon, since our country really needs to hear from people like you.
09/17/14 2:08 PM | Comment Link
pitchfork said...
2Zareen said…
“Thank you for being the voice of reason and sanity.”
Indeed. Hence my opinion:
Peter Van Buren 2016
Yes We Van!!!
🙂
Speaking of Presidential candidates..
Notwithstanding I think State is on the verge of imploding..
I believe Hillary’s shot at the Whitehouse just evaporated… not to mention her entire life. I can see the exploding headlines as I type.
http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/15/benghazi-bombshell-clinton-state-department-official-reveals-alleged-details-document-review/
C’maan Peter, your chances just went exponential.
09/17/14 4:07 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
3History repeating itself? The last time a president defied the military-industrial complex on committing more ground troops to a lost war was JFK.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/obama-stands-firm-u-s-will-not-fight-another-ground-n205321
Since the Anthrax false flag has already been waved, what can those traitors –er patriots- think up next?
09/17/14 4:46 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
4Holy Bay of Pigs, Obama don’t get on the wrong side of the CIA:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/cia-syria_n_5834850.html
09/17/14 4:53 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
5Cancel that trip to Texas:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/14/texas-gun-shop-defends-sign-about-beheading-obama-/
09/17/14 4:57 PM | Comment Link
jo6pac said...
6Ask them about the black boxes
09/17/14 6:06 PM | Comment Link
Kyzl Orda said...
7Peter, thank you — warnings by you and ex Rep. Hoekstra are spot on, including we need a strategic vision — it’s been absent too long. It includes stock-taking our miscalculations — and do the dang opposite. Stock-taking and “lessons learned” is not our officials’ forte though, is it??
What black boxes, joe6pac??
Rich, that’s interesting the divergent views of the CIA vis-a-vis DoD.
Pitch, that’s interesting the apparent back-channeling that was going on between the ‘independent’ heads of the Benghazi commission and the political team at State. Cheryl Mills, i think is a Bill Clinton politico?? But she served in State straight through the Bush-Cheney era and her name was often mentioned, especially in hiding-the-bodies kind of events. She’s part of that group the powers-that-be can trust no matter the political affiliation to make dicey and not-quite-legit stuff go under the radar.
I’m not sure who Robert Maxwell was – ie a political guy or professional foreign service? The article says he was a vet who transitioned to State. Did the other whistleblowers in the Benghazi debacle get their jobs back? It’s not surprising given Maxwell is a vet. The system does NOT work the same way for people who do not fall in any of the protected category statuses. He’s a lucky guy to get his job back
09/17/14 11:47 PM | Comment Link
wemeantwell said...
8I think it is Ray Maxwell. I should have something to say about his disclosures soon. You can never be sure, but I think he is saying truth.
09/18/14 12:07 AM | Comment Link
Kyzl Orda said...
9Stock-taking and “lessons learned” **are** not our officials’ forte though, is it?? (and neither is editing by me lol before posting)
09/17/14 11:47 PM | Comment Link
Kyzl Orda said...
10Pitchforl: “I believe Hillary’s shot at the Whitehouse just evaporated..”
Did you see the warm editorial Mrs Clinton wrote in the Washington Post ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html
Well, maybe Kissinger will be one of those who vote for Mrs Clinton, wooed by her enthusiastic embrace of the neo-cons and old guard. Who needs ‘change’ when you can get ‘more of the same’
09/18/14 12:02 AM | Comment Link
jo6pac said...
11Kyzl Orda
These, I do believe every one has had enough time to examine them and share the results. Thanks for your time.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/facts-withheld-regarding-the-mh17-malaysian-airlines-crash-dutch-government-refuses-to-release-black-box-recordings/5398571
09/18/14 12:08 AM | Comment Link
Kyzl Orda said...
12Thanks, Jo6pac – i wasnt aware the Dutch gov was refusing to divulge their investigations
09/18/14 2:15 AM | Comment Link
pitchfork said...
13Kyzl Orda said…
“Did you see the warm editorial Mrs Clinton wrote in the Washington Post? ”
Good god. If I hadn’t known that was her speaking, I would have known it was her within two sentences. Her dialog sounds like it always does..like she’s speaking from a podium to a world full of buffoons.
Meanwhile.. NSA’s new Czar, while speaking to his own set of Corporate cyber buffoons, leaks the truth that NSA will expand it’s reach regardless of the so called “debate”, while leaking the fact that while other Nations such as Germany and New Zealand are “shocked..just shocked!”, that NSA spies on them, in reality..they’re still our best spying pals… in secret…
http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2014/09/nsa-chief-yes-we-still-have-friends/94265/
Speaking of Germany, meanwhile, unbeknownst to these morons who can’t see beyond their own Totalitarian “order” noses, history is being taught to those who see a different universe of reality…
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2014/09/where-to-draw-line.html
Senator Frank Church warned us.
Just ask the Germans of the Weimar Republic what happens when you don’t listen.
09/18/14 11:58 AM | Comment Link
pitchfork said...
14jo6pac said…
“Ask them about the black boxes”
I suspect this will aggravate them further..
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByibNV3SiUoobnpCVDduaHVORHM/view?pli=1&sle=true
Rich Bauer said…
“Holy Bay of Pigs, Obama don’t get on the wrong side of the CIA:”
Indeed. Col Fletcher Prouty gave Jim Garrison a heads up on just that…
file:///C:/Users/Walter/Documents/PO/003CIA%20stuff/Garrison%20Letter%20from%20Col.%20Prouty.htm
09/18/14 12:26 PM | Comment Link
pitchfork said...
15oops..wrong URL.. here’s the correct one..
http://www.prouty.org/letter.html
09/18/14 12:29 PM | Comment Link
jo6pac said...
16Kyzl Orda said…
Thanks for getting back to me
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/09/malaysian-flight-mh17-crash-analysis-by.html
Very interesting piece
09/18/14 2:51 PM | Comment Link