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Feral Finster's avatar

Please. It was always the United States' goal to turn Syria into a failed state, much as it did to Iraq and Libya, and as it seeks to do to Iran. This was always the intended goal, even though nobody of influence and authority can say so out loud.

A failed state is of no threat to Israel or the gulfie tyrannies.

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Q: "Why would America champion policies that lead to the killing of Christians, the destruction of churches, the massacre of Alawites and the rise of radical jihadists? Why did our leaders knowingly aid those who murdered the very people America claimed to want to protect?

The answer lies in a corrupt, immoral foreign policy dictated not by ethics, human rights, or even national security, but by the interests of the military-industrial complex and strategists who view human lives as pawns in a geopolitical chess game."

A: I think the answer lies in the taboo subject of who controls America, and what is their true agenda. The Military-Industrial-Complex is more likely 'just' their front-man, than the ultimate originator of these horrors.

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Longtrail's avatar

Yeah, it's a taboo Dennis won't mention.

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Thomas H. Greco, Jr.'s avatar

Thank you, Dennis, for your tireless efforts to turn our government away from evil.

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Jazzme's avatar

Some Americans may want peace...those with time to read unpropagandized news from independent journalists. *don't expect truth from oligarchy MSM* But most are to busy just trying to get thru the week than having time to digest USA foreign policy. What a mess the CIA the USAID the MIC and many NGOs cause around the globe. I'm not even sure they know what they're doing. Our foreign policy is run by mad men and mindless think tanks and mucho money from the Israeli lobby $$$

Oppose Oppression

Refuse Fascism

dear comrades

People

Planet

Peace

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Ken Lee's avatar

Mr. Kucunich, I am now 76 years old, and have cast only ONE vote in my entire life - that vote was for YOU when you were running in the primaries, and I even did some 'cold calling' on your behalf. I have been supportive of your many positions for a long time, and appreciate your continuing to speak out, along with your wife, on these critical issues.

I personally have been appalled by the US and its' policies, both foreign and domestic, since I was a freshman in high school. I always identify myself as an American ONLY by accident of birth, since this government, and all past governments, do not reflect my views in most areas.

Enough about me, just Thank You for carrying the torch that I cannot carry.

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Longtrail's avatar

Dennis, you're on the mark about the MIC, CIA, warmongers and war profiteers. However you consistently leave out the main culprits. They are the Neocons and Zionists of AIPAC🇺🇸🇮🇱. Is it really so hard to tell who is really running the country?

AIPAC🇺🇸🇮🇱 is the most powerful and influential lobby in DC and controls Congress hence the government.

The fact you haven't mentioned them is a tell.

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Mark R. Elsis's avatar

Dear Dennis

External Interventionism, yet another euphemism for the enemy of humanity.

Mark

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Jaim LONGHI's avatar

Dennis; you ask why? In almost all cases that you mentioned, each and every one of these destabilized and ruined countries had been successful, independent, secular, and (in most cases) respectful of women. In Syria and Iraq, there were as many female college graduates as male. The fact that these countries. were proud of their historical legacies and their independent paths to modernity was, in each case, a red flag to a United States that felt so endangered and enraged by their independence that the destruction of historic symbolic sites has always been a bi-product of our intervention; as well as the setting up of anti-feminist, reactionary governments.

Our aim, if not our motto: Let no country culturally thrive independent of our hegemony.

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Liz Eviston's avatar

I read Global Research & other independent journalists so I knew it was more lies from the so called "Elite" who are behind everything, profiting from war & death. They own everything & care about nothing. All their money won't help them when truth finds them though.

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goyo's avatar

Mr. Kucinich, I have often admired your understanding and compassionate fight against the 1% and predatory capitalism in this country. However, I don't understand how you purposely omit the reality of why the USA has been undermining democracies and secular governments in the Middle East since after WWII. The original reason was and continues to be: to control strategic oil reserves to then use as a weapon against countries, dependent upon the oil from this region, who do not follow American oligarchic-imperialist dictates. The more nefarious and the cause of so much suffering, bloodshed and destabilization and genocide is Zionism. We took over from the UK allowing a settler-colonial terrorist state - Israel to destroy an indigenous culture and push its people into killing fields on stolen land. Why can't you say this? Netanyahu is a war criminal and caused the US to destroy Iraq and kill 100's of thousands of people. They are the cause of the destruction of Lebanon, at one time, a functioning and rich country. Now they're causing the destruction of Syria, next Iran...

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Mediocrates's avatar

The CIA are the exemplars of creating Hell in the Holy Lands!

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Longtrail's avatar

They're the enablers of the Zionist State🇮🇱.

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

Keep giving them hell, Dennis, especially on Syria about which you know so much. Ask some of those good Christians in the Trump Administration how they feel about Christians being massacred because of their religion.

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Thomas Cleary's avatar

The USA has been the inspiration for so many others - Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Milosevich’s Serbia and Bukele’s El Salvador to name just a few. One day we will be the victims of someone else’s atrocities.

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MJK's avatar

I just want to know what would it take to scatter the CIA into a thousand pieces? Per JFK how many years since then? What is it going to take? Dismantling of the tripartite state (democratic state, security state and the oligarch state) which all three have failed. Cut and chop it up now. Can Trump swing the axe? It is the reason for all failures.

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Fadi Lama's avatar

God bless you Mr. Kucinich!

I can attest to the truth of all that was stated in your article above.

My only comment, is that there is no US policy in Southwest Asia, there is an Israeli policy implemented by the US. In particular the death, destruction and chaos sowed on the region was detailed in the Yinon Plan of the early 1980s.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

Jesus warned about the Synagogue of Satan.

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