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in a system that seems to have lost its voice and is unable to comprehend what's happening.

I should add that, you know, as we're watching this, they were trying last week to overthrow the government of Iran.

This was clearly a CIA operation from beginning to end with Mossad.

That's also a very lawless, reckless, dangerous action.

And we are still close to a generalized war in the Middle East, which could well turn nuclear.

That's not gone away either.

So either we, as a country, somehow regain some constitutional order, or I think we are all imperiled.

Your points are absolutely right and extremely important.

I would put it this way, and I think it's also really important to understand.

The United States foreign policy has been lawless for many decades.

Our presidents and our rhetoric have generally hidden that principle.

to a minor extent, at least.

But the kinds of thuggishness that Trump is displaying is part of American foreign policy for a long time.

we invaded Iraq, not on wrong premises, but on completely false premises.

We overthrew the government of Syria in a CIA operation that went on for 14 years.

We bombed Libya to oblivion and created what has now been

15 years of civil war in that country.

We helped to overthrow a government in Ukraine in February 2014 that put us on the path of war.

You won't find almost any of this in the New York Times,

or the Washington Post, God forbid, that's the CIA outlet, or the Wall Street Journal, which just chortles on who's going to make money on what particular venture.