From: Consortium News
Exclusive: As support grows for anti-Establishment
candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, a frantic Establishment is
demanding that Americans “stay sane” and vote for one of its approved
candidates. But is it sane to follow advice that has led to endless wars
and a disappearing middle class, asks Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
With ever-growing hysteria, the Establishment is begging,
cajoling and warning American voters not to elect a rogue President from
the Right or the Left, neither Donald Trump nor Bernie Sanders, but to
accept instead one of the “sane” mainstream options. Yet, the unspoken
truth is that the American Establishment has been off its rocker for
decades.
It was, after all, Official Washington’s Establishment – led by
the neoconservatives and their sidekicks, the liberal interventionists –
that embraced President George W. Bush’s catastrophic invasion of Iraq
in 2003. However, as costly as that decision was in terms of blood and
money and cascading chaos – now destabilizing Europe – the Wise Men and
Women imposed virtually zero accountability on themselves or other chief
culprits.
Indeed, many of the same neocons who architected the Iraq
disaster are listed as top foreign policy advisers to the “sane”
candidates, such as Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. And Hillary Clinton not
only voted for the Iraq War but seemed to learn no lessons from what she
only grudgingly acknowledged was a “mistake.” As Secretary of State,
she sided with Democratic “liberal interventionists” to engineer another
“regime change” in Libya that has led to another failed state, further
spreading chaos across the region.MORE
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