Chronicles of Doom Foretold

I was beefing with an old friend about the election. He reminded me that before the rise of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush, there were not a few of us who were afraid their ascents would be the end of the world. There may be some grounds for optimism there, but not much. Mainly if you’re white and have U.S. citizenship.

Nixon’s presidency entailed the slaughter of millions in Southeast Asia, including treasonous election rigging by sabotaging a possible end to the Vietnam war in 1968. There was also the matter of the subsequent full-on holocaust in Cambodia, among other crimes.

Reagan’s gang sponsored death squads in Central America and, if you care, transacted with the Ayatollah Khomeini. Their election rigging consisted of sabotaging a possible deal with Iran that would have released the U.S. hostages and possibly got Jimmy Carter a second term. More treason.

Then we have Bush II, who launched a war that devastated Iraq and eventually Syria, again resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, at minimum.

Now we have a maniac who would love to play field marshal over the devastation of Iran and unleash the “From the Nile to the Euphrates” lunatics in Israel.

But don’t get too self-righteous. On the other side we have an Administration that countenances Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the West Bank, and Southern Lebanon. Tens of thousands of casualties, so far.

The doctrinal or political-economic foundation for all this carnage is bipartisan, as I noted here. Tragically, the odds of a better outcome from a President Harris may only be 55-45. If Liz Cheney becomes Secretary of State, the Revolution is on again.