All US presidential candidates to continue policy of perpetual war

All of the US presidential candidates from both major political parties will continue the policy of perpetual war and mass destruction unleashed by the current and former presidents, an American researcher and political analyst says.

Democratic contender Hillary Clinton, however, is the worst of the lot and would be a disaster for the US people and the people of the world if elected,” said Dennis Etler, a professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.

“Of all the candidates Hillary Clinton, as recently noted by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, is perhaps the most odious. With a smirk and a cackle, she chortled about the murder of former Libyan President Gaddafi and would assuredly do the same if a similar fate befell Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Candidate Clinton has no moral center and will be a willing and aggressive promoter of US intervention and war throughout her presidency if the US electorate is so foolish as to elect her. She is the worst of the lot and would be a disaster for the US people and the people of the world if elected,” Etler told Press TV on Thursday.

“On the Democratic side there is a two person race between the old warhorse Hillary Clinton and stalwart progressive candidate Bernie Sanders. While Sanders calls himself a “democratic socialist” his “socialism” is actually warmed over European style ‘social democracy.’ He does not challenge the underpinnings of the US capitalist economic system nor its imperialist foreign policy. His pie in the sky domestic program is unobtainable as long as the military-industrial complex and the Zionist cabal in the State Department hold sway over US foreign policy and siphon off hundreds of billions of dollars to the military budget of the US War Department (aka the Defense Department) and its far-flung network of foreign bases,” Etler added.

“The military budget of the US which is greater than that of the next seven largest militaries combined is not for defense of the homeland but for the defense of worldwide US political and economic dominance and global geopolitical hegemony,” he said.

“None of the Presidential candidates challenge the imperialist policies of the US which supports every reactionary regime imaginable. These regimes serve as US Imperialism's cat's paw wherever they are found from the Zionist apartheid regime in occupied Palestine, to the terrorist supporting regimes of Saudi Arabia and Turkey and the Neo-fascist regime installed by Hillary Clinton and her successor John Kerry in Ukraine,” he argued.

“On the Democratic side both Clinton and Sanders agree more than they disagree on foreign policy. Clinton is a classic neo-liberal who feigns opposition to US military invasions overseas only because they are too costly. She much prefers the Clintonian policy of “humanitarian intervention” using proxy forces to do the US dirty work. These proxies include terrorist networks such as al-Qaeda and Daesh (ISIL) which the US surreptitiously promotes, neo-nazis in Ukraine and compliant vassal states in Europe and Asia. The Clintonian foreign policy is based on the geo-political strategy of Zbigniew Brzezinski and the subversive political tactics of George Soros, both neo-liberal icons. In this regard Sanders is no better than Clinton, he just knows to keep his mouth shut and whistle a happy tune about how US allies need to share more of the burdens of Empire,” he said.

"Thus all candidates in both parties will continue the policy of perpetual war and mass destruction unleashed by Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barack Obama. The US, like other Anglophile nations, including Israel are all settler states and imposed their rule by genocide of the people who occupied the territory they seized by force of arms and chicanery.”

“After the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire Primary the US Presidential race is entering a new phase. On the Republican side billionaire developer, casino magnate and entertainment mogul Donald Trump has assumed a commanding lead but it is still very shallow, constituting only one third of the Republican vote, many of whom could well be independent voters who are not committed to the GOP, just as Trump himself has opportunistically switched from Democrat to Independent to Republican, changing his positions as deemed necessary to win votes. With the Republican race narrowing to just a few viable contenders, an alternative will soon emerge and it is extremely unlikely that Trump will receive the Republican nomination for president,” he added.

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