Lawrence Wilkerson Warns US Generating Enemies Beyond its Capacity to Deal With
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By Adam Dick
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Saturday, Mar 18, 2017
(Notice especially 8.35)
Lawrence Wilkerson, a former Army
colonel and chief of staff for Colin
Powell at the United States Department
of State, expressed this week strong
criticism of the US government adding
more and more nations to its enemies
list. Speaking with host Paul Jay at the
Real News Network this week, Wilkerson,
who is a professor at the College of
William & Mary, concludes that, even
with the large amount of money the US
spends on the military, it is “utterly
beyond our capacity to deal with all
these enemies” that the US has
generated.
In the interview, which is largely
focused on some individuals’ effort to
influence US foreign policy toward
creating intensified animosity between
the governments of the US and Russia,
Wilkerson explains further his concern
about the long list of US enemies.
Wilkerson states:
What I can't fathom right now is why
anyone would want, with the
situation the way it is right now in
this country, another enemy. You
know that old conservation of
enemies theory: You don't want any
more than you can handle at any
given time. Look at who we're lining
up, Paul. We're lining up China.
We're lining up Iran and all that
goes along with Iran, including
Hezbollah in Lebanon. We are lining
up with North Korea. We are lining
up with Russia. This is absurd. John
McCain and Lindsay Graham can
pontificate all day long, but I'm
going to tell you that they're
idiots. We do not need an enemy list
that is beyond what we could even in
the most wild moment contemplate
handling. We don't have the military
forces to handle all these enemies,
and, yet, we're bearding them, as it
were.
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