People are sick of the political filth.
Not too tough is it?

You completely missed the point. Trump would never have been president if Bill Clinton had not been elected. The fault for that !is in two places. Democrats who did not challenge Bush in 1982 and Ross Perot, who siphoned so many votes from Bush that it threw the election to Clinton.

You only say that because you’re a fascist

Lots of alternate bloggers/writers insist Trump is the end of the world, the beginning of our total peonage. Forgetting the consequences of having the Witch in the WH is such a convenient dodge. 2 people ran for President, one won. Reasonable writers that think that the sun rises and sets only on Trump are sadly mistaken. We must always, always realize the had Clinton become POTUS, we’d be in the most dire straits humanly possible. As in, the end of our nation and the beginning of our bondage. The witch would delight in breaking Mao’s world record for kills and every whining Trump hater knows this but conveniently fails to mention it. We won’t let them forget, however. Never, ever.

Hello Cassandra,

While I agree with your sentiments vis-a-vis the singularly execrable Bacevich, I have to disagree with your opinion about Ron Unz publishing his duplicitous tripe.

Unlike you, I wasn’t really aware of Bacevich, and am very pleased to know what a treacherous little rat he is. Were it not for this expose’, I wouldn’t have known, and I like to know things. That’s why I come here, to edify myself to the goings ons, and players, and betrayers, and liars and shills, and those who expose them.

Ron Unz has effectively exposed the pathetic little rat Bacevich for what he is.

We’re in a battle for the survival of our civilization and our progeny. So that they aren’t made into slaves and genocided off the planet. And make no mistake, those are the stakes involved here.

Judas is singularly reviled specifically because he knew and understood what he was doing and to whom. He knew he was betraying God Himself, but for personal gain, he did it anyways.

Men like Bacevich understand that they are betraying our very existence to the devil, who wants us all enslaved and eventually blended out of existence.

It’s as existential as a battle gets, because if we lose, we lose everything. Our civilization all the way to our children’s future, right off the face of the planet.

It’s right that I mentioned Zimbabwe, because when that nation was having a debate about it’s future, and the fate of the Westerners who had built that nation, many people understood exactly what it would mean to hand over rule to others. They knew that it would be existential and that there would be no future for the children of the people who had built and created that nation.

But they shilled for black rule anyways, because it was deemed personally expedient for them to do so. Like Bacevich, they knew their betrayal would doom the people they were betraying, but like Judas, they considered their personal advancement to be worth it.

I’m glad to know this about Bacevich, and I’d like to see all the liars and shills have their treachery subjected to the crucible of the Unz Review comments section.

Cheers

There was a time, years ago, when W. was wielding the sledgehammer against our Nations foundation, that I read everything Bacevich wrote; books, articles, et al. Either he has changed drastically in his thinking, or I have, no matter, the divide is now wide enough, and unnavigable enough, to place him in the camp of my enemies. It shakes a person to the core to discover a Judas among those they once trusted. Bacevich has his thirty pieces of silver; a “Catholic,” “conservative,” who sold his pen, and his soul, to the destroyers of our civilization. My question is why Unz publishes his agitprop. We know why American Conservative – which is no longer American or conservative – does, but why Unz?
None of this is to say that I entirely disagree with his portrayal of Trump. I consider Trump a symptom of National decline as surely as Hillary is. It is Bacevich’s portrayal of Trump’s desperate supporters that is unforgivable, as is his political support of Hillary Clinton. Bacevich could have ignored the duopoly, the false dichotomy of American politics, and like the Menckens and Twains of the past, sat on the side-lines as an objective critic of the miasma that is Washington. By “joining a side” he has destroyed any credibility he ever had. We have been engaged in a culture war for decades and this military man knows where the battle-lines are drawn. He has chosen to fight alongside those who are transforming our country into a post Christian, post-Western, nightmare. Unz, stop giving this faux conservative a podium.

Excellent summary of how we got here. History never died, except we don’t wish to pay attention. We have now entered a full-blown age of unreality, thanks in large part to our own unwillingness to address the issues we face in the realm of our civic society (or what’s left of it).

On this subject, a good book is “Jumping the Line,” by William Herrick. He was a member of The Brigade who turned against Communism. And yes, they got slaughtered.

Same thing happened to his fellow Illinois Senator the Democrat Adlai Stevenson 3.

Franco wasn’t even in Spain when the people rose against the Russian Jewish communists who murdered the duly elected socialist government and began looting massacring and raping.

You need to read the real history of that war not the commie garbage you learned in college.

One good thing the communists did, they recruited a lot of American useful idiot communist for their Abraham Lincoln Brigade fighting against Franconand the people of Spain.

The communists put the Lincoln Brigade in the from lines to bear the burnt of the fighting and the American useful idiots got slaughtered Wonderful!!!!!

Dems are all about, “potential for movement”!

Jimmy Dore Show

Bowel movements.

…other alternatives were available.

Five-yard penalty for unnecessary redundancy. (Oops… one for me, too.)

A billionaire complaining about the system being “rigged” might otherwise have tested the outer limits of irony…

And this is different from the 1930s in that…

Trump is like that last native New Yorker in the White House, in that he bombed in his own part of the state while carrying the other.

When President Clinton’s sexual encounters with a young White House intern became known, Hillary Clinton stood by her man.

In light of her artful use of plausible deniability in dissuading Mrs Harvey from pressing charges without explicitly dissuading her, how is this a surprise?

Also, Miss Lewinsky was not an intern at the time. She had been given a paid job. However, that alone is suspicious. Where are all the fellow interns who were in competition for that opening? Mary Cunningham Agee caught hell for a similar lucky break.

“That’s not how it works. Intermarriage is tiny.”

The majority of Americans are mutts. That is, they have Irish-Jewish-Slavic, or English-French-Kenyan, or Argentine-Chinese bloodlines.

No one is going back.

“You’re a murderous parasite. Move to Israel already.”

It never ceases to amaze me how some of the fine posters here double down on Jew Derangement Syndrome.

The train is fine, Saxon, the train is fine.

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American blacks aren’t being used any too much for ethnic cleansing. They were, back in the 60s. But now they are an embarrassment to the powers-that-be and are being ethnically cleansed themselves.

That’s not how it works. Intermarriage is tiny. You’re a murderous parasite. Move to Israel already.

Hey guys; when is that wall going up?

Trump is 100% owned by those same zionist rulers, like the rest of the actors in washington.

I wonder how many professional trolls are actually paid by the Kikemasons, to sound stupid on this site. It just astonishes me that someone who claims to be smart would not get what you have written.

Already in 2001 or 2002 in Miami I, and my wife, were ignored in certain places when we spoke english.

Why didn’t you teach her Hebrew then?

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“…do not argue wish me, you are schtupid. I will win!”

You left out Jared.

Yeah, he is a weak, simple-minded, limp-wristed Zionist ass-kisser too.

Have you read amren.com lately?

Candidate Trump also said: “I don’t want your [Jewish] money” to an auditorium of rich and powerful Israeli-Americans.

You forgot the part where he said; “I get all I need from the families of my children’s parents.”

Trump has correctly identified the structural dismantling of the US economy in the interest of an oligarchy as our main problem.

LOL, yes I was watching ESPN yesterday, and somehow Michael Jordan correctly identified that “basketball” involved putting an inflated leather sphere through a metal ring.

I am unconvinced that i missed your point. I appreciate you taking the time to elaborate.

No my point is before one gets to whether or not their should be ddissent, there should be some clear evidence that make a case to dissent about.

And that means you have to overcome the sizeable counter intuitive, that US leadership would not engage in self sabotage for cause.

Your contention is similar to that concerning WWII. That conspiratorial contention was that Pres. Roosevelt, new there was going to be an attack, but saw it as an opportunity to get the US into the war — so he and upper echelon staff allowed it to occur. The notion of self sabotage requires a case that is more than circumstantial.

The media blitz to indict Pres Trump for collusion is an attempt to overcome the counter-intuitive that a Pres Candidate would sabotage that which he running to represent.

In any of these cases, I think the US military would have a very tough time remaining silent. In fat they would have a duty to respond. But that response had better be founded on a very credible case. And it would have exceed, probable or likely.

So in either case, they orchestrated it or they allowed for causes known or unknown — the contention has to be strong enough to overcome the counter-intuitive mindset.

Note: when Pres Clinton attempted to intro open same sex relational – plenty of dissent.

And no I doubt it has much to do with killing, you’ll have to explicate that further. It rests on how the military works. Buy design its structured to discourage dissent accept very specific forms. So even if there was dissent, you and i would probably never know about it. But while tricky to assess, dissent is actually an important part of the problem solving process. I think we saw dissent more than I was comfortable with during the Iraq and Afghanistan ca,campaigns. The DIA and the CIA were near open warfare, I think. I think that eventually Vietnam experienced push-back by the military. But an active dissent concerning 9/11 — we wouldn’t see it unless there were grounds to make charges that would stick. A counter-intuitive i did not mention — it would create a national cris, like nothing before I suspect.

protocols for dissent.

https://www.army.mil/article/47175/breaking_ranks_dissent_and_the_military_professional

Now Col Bacivic could better comment in this than I.

How we got Trump:
President after president after president who refused to enforce immigration law, and who decided that the only solution to the millions of people who came in illegally due to their refusal to enforce immigration law was to legalize them.

President after president after president who were happy to let businesses export their factories and import their labor.

Damn, every statement of yours in the ensuing posts is like an expert sniper’s round hitting its mark squarely, with a headshot.

Quite, impressive.

very well said

BULL SHIT

Associated Press lies, and does NPR, all lies, yet you quote them?!

Oh yes, NPR who says we have NO inflation!

Trump was elected to deal with immigration and make peace with Russia, and get us out of wars.

Trump deports LESS THAN OBAMA! Trump does not kill DACA, but kicks it to Congress, so congress will give him a bill to grant amnesty.

Trump deepens the swamp, he puts Zionist traitor Nikki Haley into the UN?!

Trump tweets like a 15 year old girl, embarrassing the right who supports him.

TRUMP IS A ZIONIST HACK< HE IS A PUPPET, PERIOD!

Zionists own America, and the whole world knows it.

They own media, Hollywood, entertainment, Wall Street, The Fed, advertising, higher education, and Washington.

The zionists use the carrot and the stick, black mail, bribes to ensure everyone stays on message:

Anti white male, feminist, OPEN BORDERS, anti Russian, anti Christian and on and on…

9/11 I believe was final move to totally take over the US government by the Zionist money machine.

Trump will likely grant amnesty for illegals, very very likely

Exactly,

Too many buy into the right vs left narrative, which should be an obvious lie.

Trump came from JEW YORK CITY, he backed by the biggest Zionists and has surrounded himself with Zionists!

Zionists HATE AMERICA!!!!!!

Trump will grant AMNESTY

Trump wants to give the military control of the PENTAGON?!

Trump, like Obama, Clinton, Bush and Reagan are all puppets, each traitors in their own right, but Trump may surpass them all, we will see.

Trump is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, he is owned by the zionist bankers, obviously

What a load of crap:

So, Trump can take credit, why, because of a tax system that just started.

AND WHAT ECONOMY?! Wall Street, service jobs mean NOTHING!

Foreign policy, increasing military in Afghanistan, MAKING JERUSALEM THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL, WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And a tweeting idiot, with friends like Trump white Americans don’t need enemies.

Furthermore, TRUMP CONTINUES Obama’s catch and release, of illegals, CHUMP did not KILL DACA like he promised, and will likely grant amnesty

And Chump appointed Nikki Haley to the UN, a zionist traitor, and a Cabinet filled with Zionists…

All true, but it was a total fake.

American’s greatest sin, is their inability to see how controlled we truly are.

Obama was painted as a “peace President/Constitutional scholar”, and he was neither.

They painted Trump as a “America firster/anti immigrant, anti war”, again a total head fake:

Trump will grant amnesty, build no wall, and has already INCREASED our presence in the MI, and support for Saudi Arabia and Israel, America’s true enemies.

Trump is a product of Jew York City, the parasite of America.

Chump was handed the Presidency by our zionist masters.

The zionists own the media, wall street, advertising, banking, and Washington, yet you want us to think Trump got by all those gate keepers, even though his biggest supporter was Sheldon freaking Adleson, arch zionist.

Nonsense, this is all just more Zionist jew manipulation.

I smell a zionist shill

I am just amazed you did not call those who question Chump, a Hiltary supporter.

Chump is a Zionist paid whore, obviously.

Trump is owned by the zionists bankers, you know the ones who funded his campaign and bailed out his business…

I don’t hate any politicians, but I know they are ALL actors, and can be replaced in a second if they step out of line, because TOO many idiots can’t see the truth right in front of their face, instead they fall for partisan distractions by our zionist masters.

Great post, right on the “money”.

Great comment, DC is a dog and pony show put on by those who own us.

Hollywood is a took being used to destroy America, it is not liberal, it IS zionist, marxist

Wall Street is where much of the money that funds the anti American cabal is funded.

9/11 was the culmination of the Zionist coup, started with Hollywood Reagan, and Bill Clinton, and Trump is it’s completion.

Higher education is a slave to endowments, again Zionists, who push divisive fascist marxism…

Trump is 100% owned by those same zionist rulers, like the rest of the actors in washington.

The admirable Mr. Bacevich has left out the last link in the chain.

The corruption at high levels of the Democratic Party. To put it simply, the Democratic Party is not democratic. And this is a trend that dates back to the Clinton Presidency.

First we’ve seen it in primary elections for the Democratic nod to run for House or Senate. When I was young, the rule was that the national party stayed neutral in such elections, leaving the choice of nominee to the party members in the district or state. This changed with Bill Clinton. Then we started to see any progressive challengers to the Clintonite pro-corporate, pro-banker candidates facing not only a well financed campaign but celebrity drop-in visits from the President and first Family. An early sign that the Democratic Party no longer cared what its members thought, but that it only wanted votes in Congress to serve its banker and corporate donor friends.

We also saw the fight against any primary challenges at all. It was deemed helpful to Republicans to have even a semblance of democracy within the party, so primary challenges against the pro-banker Clintonite Democrats became less and less frequent.

We saw it in the Clintons willingly destroying the post-Watergate campaign finance reforms. The Clintons wanted to rake in as much money as possible (including from China if the allegations were correct), so they combined with the Republicans who always opposed those reforms in the 96 elections to kill them off for good.

All of which led to the Democratic nomination process where the Democrat voters and caucus attendees clearly preferred Bernie Sanders as the nominee. It led to a Democratic party leadership that rigged the process such that Hillary was guaranteed to win. Even though polls were clearly showing before Hillary went over-the-top in delegate totals that she was trailing Trump in head-to-head matchups, while Bernie’s brand of more traditional Democrat populism was precisely the answer needed to counter the Donald’s brand of fake-populism.

If there had been an honest democracy within the Democrat party in 2016, we would not have Donald Trump as President today. That’s the funny bit about all of the Democrat whining and blaming of Russia for losing the election. The Democrats did it too themselves, led by the Clintons for 20 years. Their collusion and rigging of the process made sure that a loser candidate who wasn’t strongly supported by the rank-n-file of her party was the hopeless nominee facing Donald.

Mr. Bacevich has written an excellent column, and its full of accurate places along the footpath that led to Donald Trump being Twit-in-chief. But the corruption of the high levels of the Democratic party brought on by decades of Clintonism was the final stepping stone in the path.

“The Roman Empire, like every propositional empire before or since, no longer exists.”

While ’tis true there are several shared traits, the moving parts for the Roman Empire and the United States are unique for their time period. America had interest overseas, the Romans had overseas interests. Big difference there.

Moreover, with today’s reliance on technology, the influence of the global economy, and America’s own mutt identity, the odds that the United States will break up Yugoslavia-style are virtually impossible. Free free to dream! But I would be worried if such an event took place–lawyers such as yourself would be strung up on poles and be beaten like pinatas. Hope you have Cadillac health insurance.

“Without exception, they eventually devolve into their constituent nations.”

Had that been the case, the English would have ensured that the Germans and Irish–groups deemed to be alien societies by nativists–been removed by force. But because of intermarriage between ethnic groups and between races, along with Generation Z’s penchant for inclusion, the mortar has filled in those fault lines. Cracks will remain, and they may even get bigger, but the cement is both strong and flexible.

and if my aunt had a dick, should be my uncle…. You lost me at global warming.

Blacks and others ‘were moved.’ By whom or what?

The WASP Elite was shitting on the vast majority of white Americans while determined to uplift the poor angelic Negro before Jews ever made any impact on media, politics, or jurisprudence.

We are in the shape we are in because the descendants (religious, cultural, and moral as well as genetic) of Anglo-Saxon Puritans have set national standards since at least 1865. From the beginning of the Judaizing heresy that was Anglo-Saxon Puritanism, it produced a political culture naturally allying with Jews against the vast majority of whites it ruled.

Blacks proved perfect tools and weapons for WASP Elites, in league with their Jewish allies (WASPs and Jews allied under Oliver Cromwell), to use to batter the white masses.

The Supreme Court should be replaced with a jury.

Maybe the Congress should be replaced by a random selection of citizens also. Then it would be possible to dispense with the tiresome, ridiculously expensive and corrupt business of Congressional elections.

Indeed, if Congress were then to elect a President from among its own ranks, it would be possible to dispense also with the Presidential election, surely the most preposterous manifestation of the so-called democratic process anywhere in the world.

The Nationalists had the moral high ground and were simply better human beings. Besides, they had the best music:

I am unclear how many service members think that 9/11 was an inside job, that involved the Israelis and or Saudi Arabian US cooperation. At the moment, the links despite the coincidences and questions, simply don’t make the grade (in my view).

You miss my point to which your view as to whether 9/11 was an “inside job” is irrelevant.

My point was that no past or present member of the US military can openly question the official account of 9/11 because the US military have killed, maimed or displaced tens of millions of people (and continue the chaos and carnage) in the name of 9/11.

Thus, for a member of the US military to say 9/11 was in some way organized, sponsored, or merely allowed by the US Government is to declare America’s military leadership, including the Commanders in Chief, guilty of war crimes in which all members of the military, are knowingly or otherwise complicit.

The corollary to that is that military discipline cannot allow members of the military to publicly question the official 9/11 account.

No. it means that despite his opposition to the election of Pres trump, he holds some advances with which one who supports Pres trump might agree with.

There’s no love loss between Dr. Bacivic and myself — despite his knowledge, expertise, we are several light years apart on who the Vietnam conflict, and why it was fought. That he misapplies data sets does mean his views everywhere else are wrong.

Dr. Bacivic is not afraid to take on his military colleagues. I am going to be careful here, because Dr. Bacivic is more than capable of defending himself and i want to be careful not exceed what is appropriate. Not because I fear response, but because my position is sufficient for its import.

Dissenting views among military ranks is difficult to discern, so I will only respond with — a single example of a ranking officer who dissented regarding Iraq General Chenseki. There are men willing to risk it. I am unclear how many service members think that 9/11 was an inside job, that involved the Israelis and or Saudi Arabian US cooperation. At the moment, the links despite the coincidences and questions, simply don’t make the grade (in my view).

I don’t think the reactions by the CIA, FBI, DIA, FAA and DOD as well others could keep it a secret. And I am not dismissing that one could be part of a conspiracy without their knowledge.

Correct. Any literate person can read the constitution and know what it says. But only nine people on earth know what it means. It’s surprising how few people see the problem here. The Supreme Court should be replaced with a jury.

The Republican Party sold out to the cheap labor lobby = Trump.

Saves a whole lot of blah, blah, blah.

I have listened to the debate over 9/11 conspiracies with a fairly open mind (in my view) and while there are plenty of answered questions and even suspicious coincidences, there are no hard links that make the conspiracy work.

That’s no doubt the way the entire US military establishment thinks.

It’s the way the US military establishment has to think.

Having expended several trillion dollars and killed, maimed or displaced tens of millions of people in the name of 9/11, the credibility of the US military as anything but a terrorist organization of unexcelled brutality would be entirely destroyed by acceptance of a true account of 9/11.

That means that to consider Professor Bacevich’s political views to be of the slightest validity, one must accept the official 9/11 story.

and devastating.

I’d like to think so Zumbudddi,

I bristle at pompous, preening poseurs. Smug liars and snarky cheats.

Dishonest panderers to the lowest common filth- our elites and their mendacious matrix of lies and deceits.

good for a working class man to wipe his boots on, perhaps, but not much good beyond that

It began with Wilson:
Charles Callan Tansill, ‘Amerika geht in den Krieg’, Stuttgart 1939 (America goes to War, 1938)
For clarity, the book is about WWI.

In France recently a book was published about this hoax, the author was fired immediately.
The few Dutch who dare to speak out against what they see as hoax hardly get the possibility to say what they want.
Whenever I express my doubts, discussion ends.
Yet I can produce a list of some six or more books on climate, none of my opponents ever read a book on the subject.
I’m expecting the next ice age.

The USA stew, not a melting pot, the original ingredients all still are there, does hardly have fault lines, except maybe Miami, and states like Iowa.
But even there, stew, catholics against protestants, as I experienced.
What Brussels tries desperately is to create a European stew, one method is making people migrate all over the EU.
Alas culture and language barriers prevent this to a large extent.
Though many in the EU do speak some english, in most cases it is far from being fluent.
When in France, those that think they speak english know so little of the language that after a few sentences I propose to change to my french, not fluent, but far better than their english.
In Germany the same, with exceptions, I must add.

The Roman Empire, like every propositional empire before or since, no longer exists. Without exception, they eventually devolve into their constituent nations. The American fault lines are patent, just a matter of when and how.

You say: “What used to be America is still America–a nation based on the proposition. Always has been, always will be.”

I guess you think the founders would approve of the Patriot Act…

https://www.tgd.de/2018/01/30/deutschland-braucht-ein-klares-bekenntnis-zur-einwanderungsgesellschaft/

Not many in the USA can read German, I suppose.
Migrant organisations in Germany, also respresenting those with German nationality, but with migrant background, demand that ethnic Germans adapt to what I had best call ‘new Germans’, and/or accept a multi cultural society.

The letter reminds me of how Russian jews resisted assimilation, leading in the end to the bolsjewist coup at the end of 1917, and of how in Germany from 1870 on antisemitism began.

Already in 2001 or 2002 in Miami I, and my wife, were ignored in certain places when we spoke english.
My wife speaks spanish, the moment she used that language anything changed.

Farsighted people in Europe predict civil wars, migrants, and their descendants against those with roots in the European countries going back hundreds of years.
The USA Civil War hardly was a civil war, I do hope the USA is not heading towards a real civil war.
So I wonder if (also ?) here Trump is as stupid as many think he is.

Aelius Aristides, a Greek who received Roman citizenship in 123 A.D. stated…

“You have divided into two parts all men throughout your empire…everywhere giving citizenship to all those who are more accomplished, noble, and powerful, even as they retain their native-born identities, while the rest you have made subjects and the governed. Neither the sea nor the great expanse of intervening land keeps one from being a citizen, and there is no distinction between Europe and Asia…No one is a foreigner who deserves to hold an office or is worthy of trust. Rather, there is here a common “world democracy” under the rule of one man, the best ruler and director…You have divided humanity into Romans and non-Romans…and because you have divided people in this manner, in every city throughout the empire there are many who share citizenship with you, no less than the share citizenship with their fellow natives. And some of these Roman citizens have not even seen this city [Rome]! There is no need for troops to garrison the strategic high points of these cities, because the most important and powerful people in each region guard their native lands for you…yet there is not a residue of resentment among those excluded [from Roman citizenship and a share in the governance of the provinces]. Because your government is both universal and like that of a single city-state, its governors rightly rule not as foreigners but, as it were, their own people…Additionally, all of the masses of subjects under this government have protection against the more powerful of their native countrymen, by virtue of your anger and vengeance, which would fall upon the more powerful without delay should they dare to break the law. Thus, the present government serves rich and poor alike, and your constitution has developed a single, harmonious, all-embracing union. What in former days seemed impossible has in your time come to pass: You control a vast empire with a rule that is firm but not unkind…”

Ultimately, the American identity has not been lost within the past 60 years, it just has transformed, similar to when the Thirteen Colonies began as primarily British, but subsumed other European groups who were historic rivals, and eventually non-Europeans. The Welsh, the Cornish, Bavarians, the Catalans–they were distinct sub-Europeans groups, but over generations they intermingled and dispersed in our great land. Americans are a mixture of European and non-European ethnostates who, like any and all groups, self-identify. They know who they are and where they come from, and create groups who share their self-identities. Furthermore, the default for American is American and not a particular race, regardless of one’s willingness to admit it this decided fact. When you call yourself a black American or a Chinese American, you are still an American, as in residing in the nation referred as the United States. And while Yankees and Southerners and Midwesterners are clearly different, they are not separate “tribes” or “nations”, just locations with groups of people who self-identify geographically, socially, and culturally.

This identification is the direct result of indoctrination…from our Founding Fathers. The term “proposition” is found in the first two sections of the Declaration of Independence. We were formed from political and religious refugees and migrants from a dozen European nations to start, and conjoined from the beginning with freed slaves and Native Americans. We were inspired by a great diversity of political philosophies and practices. We have welcomed immigration from the first day, explicated by the First Congress.

Preserving rights “for one’s posterity” repudiated feudalistic notions. Similar wording exists in the Federalist Papers and American law rooted in British traditions. Even accepting “Our posterity,” means the descendants of those citizens only at the time of ratification, given the healthy dose of non-British in the United States who were among the ratifiers, the concept simply cannot be granted to the British exclusively. And, of course there is the naturalization clause, which assuredly had no ethnocentric provision. One could argue the slave trade clause had such had such an ethnocentric position, but it is clear it was not aimed at non-British or non-whites. And then there is the naturalization clause, which certainly had no ethnocentric provision to it.

Posterity does NOT refer only to one’s own children, but as with the synonymous “legacy” also has the broader meaning of what we leave behind. The Founding Fathers were self-consciously leaving behind other than a genetic legacy. The motto “Novus Ordo Seclorum” reflects their legacy, setting up the mechanisms of government they invented to secure liberty against tyranny. Recall Article I, Section 8, Clause 4: “The Congress shall have Power To…establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization….” By definition, naturalization extends citizenship, and all the rights and duties related to it, to an outsider, that is, someone not the posterity of a signer of the document. The Founding Fathers clearly desired “to invite foreigners of merit and republican principles among us.” Indeed, the intention was whites and Europeans, but who imagined at that time non-whites and women would be able to embrace these principles? But there is no racial or gender criteria to adhering to republican ideals in the Constitution. Of course, that does not mean foreigners have the right to enter our shores, as Congress sets the standards for immigration. But the proposition remains that there are hoops for newcomers to jump through.

You might want to read Col Bacivic’s book,

Washington Rules

I am going to skip the discussion on Dr. Bacivic’s private life. I have no clue nor is it relevant to this discussion.

I have listened to the debate over 9/11 conspiracies with a fairly open mind (in my view) and while there are plenty of answered questions and even suspicious coincidences, there are no hard links that make the conspiracy work. Suspicion does not a conspiracy make — lots of unconnected dots don’t make a circle even if they are in a circular pattern. You might want to take a look at the hijackings that occurred in the 1970′s or late 1960′s. Once on an aircraft, if your intent is to hijack the plane — all you have to do is convince the passengers and flight crew not to resist — one doesn’t need more a credible or even unknown but believable threat —

“I have a bomb in baggage compartment”

There are some 200 countries on the planet recognized by the UN. Zimbabwe is but one. And no one recognized as expert in international relations has to know anything about all of them or any them as per themselves. The expertise in such the field could be on any number of parameters about relations between states. Said expert may be knowledgeable about any variation from one state, to many, and in a general sense all of them. But not knowing or writing about any one state of locus to me does not deny expertise as is the case with Zimbabwe. It’s like taking a vast body of knowledge selecting single sectors or bis of data and claiming that if a person can’t answer these questions in this manner they must deficient, that is not how expertise is tested.

In the case of Sec Clinton it was not that she was not experienced as one notes experience and credential – she was by the standards of holding office and those that supported her used that. The failure was not posts she held, but her performance that where she failed. And that is where candidate Trump pressed the debate. He rightly said, results matter. Frankly, I was disappointed when Pres Trump dropped out of the race four years earlier.

I certainly think Israel has a right to exist. I certainly think she should be called out on her policies in Palestine. But if anyone thinks that Israel’s tactics are not working, then they don’t understand the realities on ground or Israel’s goals. And that is what makes our duplicity all the more egregious. When one uses bewilderment, one may very well be using Irony and sarcasm to make the point of contention experienced.

I.E. Beyond me why the US keeps undermining its own citizens in favor of Mexicans coming across our borders illegally or jump tracking the VISA programs or harbored in DACA — let’s face it. It doesn’t matter what the democrats do — this President has betrayed his supporters on that point — Having to constantly iron the suits of a man of his wealth and education is tiresome. Stop pretending building the wall is such a hurdle.

I just reread the article about the USS Liberty. Recently Mr Giraldi discussed Pollard’s release. I can don’t care who you are. If you are a US citizen, regardless of how much you know and understand it — why we are so cozy with Israel given the damage they have done to the US causes one wonder. I get the end times prophecy advance, but even I remain bewildered why so many policymakers are just numb to what the carte blanche’ consequences of being so wedded to Israel – you want to make laws against your own citizens – it’s just off the wall.

Right at the point where you see “Leader of the free world” you know you are dealing with a drooling dotard.

Show me this “proposition nation” in the writings of the founders. You can’t. This pilpul of yours doesn’t work on anyone who’s read the founding documents including the first immigration and naturalization act of 1790.

I am English, by the way. You have to go back.

mfw Thomm thinks the definition of white will “expand” to include him even though Germans, Italians, Irish and any of the groups according to the common j-left mythology he’s citing were never considered non-white in America and never denied immigration and citizenship.

Imagine being this much of a pea-brained marxist class dialectic hanger-on in the current year. Yeah these hordes of racial strangers are totally my ally even though they’ve been incited against me and mine, and the establishment is using them in a quite literal policy of ethnic cleansing against my people.
:^)

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rothschild Zionists & Trust Fund Children, LLC.

Born with a Silver Spoon in Our Mouth.

There is no greater misfortune than greed. – Tao Te Ching

9/11 the Truth.
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How did we get Trump? Open borders, stagnant wages, outsourcing, and endless grinding attacks on American culture.

You could have avoided Trump by addressing any or all of those concerns. Trump isn’t the bogeyman you think. He’s the establishment’s last peaceful chance.

Here are some questions:

What was the number of times that historians Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer appeared on (gatekeeper) Amy Goodman’s TV program Democracy Now in order to discuss the Israel Lobby’s push for the war on Iraq: answer O (zero) times

What are the number of times that Andrew Bacevich appeared on (gatekeeper) Amy Goodman’s TV program Democracy Now: 31 (thirty one) times

This tells you everything about both Bacevich and Goodman.

Unfortunately, a now apparently contrite and bowed Stephen Walt is attempting to receive absolution from high priestess Amy Gooman (and her sugar daddy George Soros) from the charges of antisemitism that have seriously damaged the professional careers of both him and Mearsheimer that occurred after their publication of their 2006 book on the Israel’s Lobby and the wars it pushed in the Mideast. He is doing this by going on her program and bashing Trump.

Amy Goodamn now benefits from Walt’s appearances because she can now claim political balance , something she was never able to do in the past.

Walt is probably on a fool;s errand however because he is dealing with a people whose principal belief is ” never forgive and never forget.” Walt is now Goodman’s pet Republican, kept on a very short and controllable leash.

Here is a link to the book that caused to damge to Mearsheimer and Walt’s careers. The book atha cause the damage:

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Foreign_Policy)

Here are links to Stephen Walt on Trump:

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/7/stephen_walt_from_israel_to_iran

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/7/harvard_professor_to_trump_there_is

You would think that Bacevich would be a little less accepting of the government’s easily debunked 9-11 story considering that Bacevich’s own officer son died in combat in Iraq as a result of it.

But then again, for him to question the 9-11 story would hurt his very lucrative book sales. He knows full well that the invitations to promote his books on center/left media would quickly vanish if he were to “ask questions”.

Apparently, when given the choice , Bacevich chose book sales and public appearances over his son’s memory.

(1) What exactly can the Lobby do to a career. For this we have the example of (ex) Senator Charles Percy of Illinois who took on the Lobby and lost his next election in 1985 despite being a generally popular,but slightly liberal incumbent.

But his losing was not enough for our friends. Percy had to be made an example of.. He was blacklisted from appearances on the MSM. He received no lucrative invitations to join boards of director of corporations or non profit foundations that were commonplace for prominent ex-politicians. Speaking engagements disappeared. He was no longer invited to Republican evens or conventions. He became a total non-person from the mid 1980s until his death in 2011.

So thorough was his deliberately engineered disappearance by The Lobby that when he died in 2011 , the most common response from people was “I didn’t know he was still alive, I thought he died decades ago, soon after he lost the election”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Percy

Only racist slaves see blacks in ghettos as their enemies, rather than as their fellow slaves. Only stupid people don’t realize we all live as slaves. Obama was appointed so that everyone would talk about race while he made it legal to assassinate anyone anywhere at any time with drones. You got Trump because your masters choose him for you – the same old Empire first, the rich second, and everything else later.

Oh, shut up, Bacevich. Your article merely shows you do mot have a clue about real Ameticans. Trump, for all his faultes
surely does.

Sure don’t want to be on your [email protected]@t list, Rurik.
Your take-down of Bacevich is intelligent, informed, and devastating.

I stopped reading when I got to your remarks about the climate change hoax. If you buy into that fairly tale, nothing else you say or said is reliable.

Where did this “leader of the free world” nonsense come from, and isn’t it time we stopped amplifying it?

He was a pig with no respect for the will of the people.

The same argument was made how the America went from primarily English to non-English with the infusion of Germans and Irish by the 1860′s.

Are you non-English? Then you must go back.

WN wiggers will never understand this. The definition of ‘white’ keeps expanding in the US. Even the Irish were not considered ‘white’ in 1890 America (I had to school even Ron Unz about that).

Add to that the most under-discussed aspect of HBD : The extremely high variance within whites.

While young Asian women all fall between 5 and 8 in the looks scale, white women occupy the full 1-10 range. The variance is very high.

White men, similarly, generate the most brilliant people ever, but also a bottom 20% underclass of white men that are even less intelligent than blacks (these men tend to become WN losers, and are thus the male counterparts of the fat bluehaired feminists).

The entire modern WN narrative is extremely false, and is just a plea by untalented bottom-tier white males for intra-white socialism. It is hence extremely similar to BLM and radical feminism, in that all three groups want to mooch from the same host – successful whites (and some Asian Americans).

“Nope, the elephant in the room is that America, in a period of less than 50 years, went from being about 80 percent white to 60 percent white.”

The same argument was made how the America went from primarily English to non-English with the infusion of Germans and Irish by the 1860′s.

Are you non-English? Then you must go back.

“What used to be America no longer exists because its leaders sold it out.”

What used to be America is still America–a nation based on the proposition. Always has been, always will be.

“an impeccably credentialed graduate of Wellesley and Yale who had served HERSELF as first lady, United States senator, and secretary of state.”

There y’go, Andy. I fixed it for you.

They watched as many of their American Graffiti/Norman Rockwell-esque communities got transformed into something less desirable. They watched as their jobs were sent overseas. They watched as their values & traditions were trashed.

I checked this guy out

Andrew J. Bacevich, Sr. is an American historian specializing in international relations, security studies, American foreign policy, and American diplomatic and military history. He is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.

Now, with that resume, what has Bacevich had to say about formerly white nation that has let non-whites take charge. Surely there are lessons there for the future white minority of America, no?

So, I looked for what Mr. Bacevich has written about Zimbabwe, being as he’s a specialist in international relations, American foreign policy, diplomacy and Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies!

Surely a guy like this has had an opinion about a nation that has done what he no doubt obviously proposes for the ZUSA, and forsakes its evil white privilege to embrace social justice and racial equality, no?

So, doing an Internet search for his wise counsel vis-a-vis Zimbabwe, we find exactly this:

OK, maybe he’s never heard of Zimbabwe.

So let’s look at some other issues of international import that Mr. Bacevich has chimed in on…

there is this:

The battle for truth over Saudi Arabia’s ties to 9/11

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0427-bacevich-28-pages-saudi-911-20160427-story.html

this was penned in April, 2016

so this imbecile has carefully avoided any research into the fact that 9/11 was obviously lied about, and that only a complete dunderhead still believes in the 19 ”terrorists” with box cutters. A dunderhead, or a professional liar.

here he is on Israeli warmongering:

Whether using tanks to conquer or assassins to liquidate, adherence to this knee-to-the-groin paradigm has won Israel few friends in the region and few admirers around the world (Americans notably excepted). The likelihood of this approach eliminating or even diminishing Arab or Iranian hostility toward Israel appears less than promising. That said, the approach has thus far succeeded in preserving and even expanding the Jewish state: more than 60 years after its founding, Israel persists and even prospers. By this rough but not inconsequential measure, the Israeli security concept has succeeded. Okay, it’s nasty: but so far at least, it’s worked.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-we-became-israel/

worked for whom Mr. Bacevich? Has it “worked” for the Palestinians per chance?

The average Israeli had long since become inured to reports of IDF incursions into southern Lebanon or Gaza.

what about the residents of Gaza? Have they too become “inured”?

And isn’t that nice the way he says the average Israeli has become “inured”, as if they’re so put upon by these incursions, that they’ve had to toughen up. Here they are bolstering their forbearance to these bombs dropping on Gaza. The poor dears.

the rest of the article talks about ZUS / Israeli’s overlapping agenda, but I don’t see the word neocon mentioned even once. Perhaps Mr. Bacevich has never heard of a neocon or William Kristol or Sheldon Adelson…

But then, it’s not like he’s a professional that specializes in American foreign policy, or American diplomatic and international relations after all. So I guess you can’t expect him to understand just why it is that America slavishly acts as Israel’s bitch. Even as he writes articles bewildered over the phenomena.

Here he describes Hillary as “an impeccably credentialed graduate of Wellesley and Yale who had served as first lady, United States senator, and secretary of state.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-is-not-the-problem/

so, in short, and with my admittedly limited research capabilities, it seems that for Mr. Bacevich, Israeli’s behavior is plucky and ‘successful’. American’s warmongering is wrong-headed, but has nothing whatsoever to do with neocons or disloyal duel citizens or Jewish intrigues and treachery to corrupt America’s foreign policy towards the war agenda. It’s just Americans being stupid, and probably just another dire consequence of the privilege (and racism) of “the angry and ignorant white males” – Les Deplorables he seems to deplore so earnestly.

but I wanted to know, does his rank and vile dishonesty pervade his entire body of work, or is his virtue signaling vis-a-vis his contempt for working class white men an aberration. Sadly, it seems the former is the case.

“2010: Mitch McConnell Chooses Party Over Country.”

This whole article is a target-rich environment, but I’ll take this one.

First of all, Mitch has been “bipartisan” on too many occasions for the good of the country. Mitch chooses Mitch over party and country every time. The whole point to political parties is to gather enough like-minds to advance an agenda you believe, or at least state you believe, is best for the country. The Dems do this very well. They might privately hate each other, but when the Repubes mount a serious threat on any, perhaps all of their issues, they circle the wagons almost unanimously. The Repubes are hard-pressed on even their most cherished issues to muster a majority, particularly in the Senate, a fine testimony that, more often than not, Mitch is incapable of imposing party discipline, much less putting party over country.

Who is to say that Barak Obama was what was best for the country, much less his last Supreme Court nominee? Or that Donald Trump is the devil incarnate who will destroy America? Post hoc ergo propter hoc: The fact that your personal political views lean in a given direction does not necessarily mean that is what is best for the country.

“…99% of American voter never knew that Perot existed…”

Your numbers are wrong as he got more than 1% of the vote. If he got more than 1% of the vote then it’s obvious that more than 1% knew who he was.

A major reason we got Trump is that Obama spent a large part of his presidency trying to incite race riots through his lackeys in the Black Lives Matter movement.

I think there is something the Feds could do about education. They could set up a Federal University which would assemble a comprehensive collection of online educational resources and organize mechanism to connect students studying online with tutors in their local community.

Such an institution would allow young people to study in their spare time while they are engaged in gainful employment. The heart of the system would be the tutorial system. It would require the development of software to manage online communications — one might pay by the byte to communicate with tutors.

In addition, there would be tutorial rooms made available, not on broad and expensive campuses with sports teams and million dollar coaches, but in downtown office buildings, where students could engage with others pursuing the same topics as themselves under a tutor’s guidance. This would eliminate the need for student loans while adding four or more years to every university graduates working life.

The result?

The bankruptcy of half of America’s university’s within ten to 15 years, as predicted by Harvard business school prof Clayton Christensen:

Harvard Business School professor: Half of American colleges will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years

It would also mean an end to useless university bureaucrats, and and end to the university’s role as a Commie brainwashing operation.

I will plead slow on the uptick here.

Explain.

I thought Monty Python was a joke.

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— Mark Collett (@MarkACollett) January 31, 2018

Whoa.

Dr, Bacivic and I disagree on a bundle. But as an advocate against unnecessary war, needless government waste, fraud, and bankruptcy that inhabits Washington politics his positions are far more devastating than many here.

In short his position is had any other candidate in the Republican party embraced any of the positions that most voters espoused Mr Trump would not be pres. trump and that’s probably true. In fact, what Pres trump said repeatedly throughout his life in answering the question is that he would only run if things got really bad.Laughing. And in my view things have gotten worse than bad. And Pres trump is to be the embodiment of the voices already making the case.

The problem in my view is that he is abandoning the case more and more. And as someone who had nothing to gain personally by his election — my disappointment is palpable. I would agree that his very presence is revealing some deep and troubling truths about how things are run — and by the way, Pres ‘s tenure is confirming observations made Dr. Bacivic and Phillip Giraldi and others — long before Mr Trump came on scene.

The assumption that anyone’s kids have been passed over because of color has very little support. it’s myopic and looking at the numbers suggests misguided. Because the greatest benefactors from set asides designed as redress have bone to whites, especially white women. I used to whine about this form of redress, before i understood what it was. What it was designed to do. Who and actually benefited and why. It’s not blacks, despite appearances. And if it were, as much as I might hate to admit it — the data would support the following retort by light years of impact on blacks.

“I flew planes to defend bombers in WWII. When I got home none of my kids were permitted into the colleges of their choice because of skin color and that went on all of my life. I got letters from family and friends that were required to serve German prisoners and even sit in the worse seats – backs of theaters as our enemies were catered in the front. Angry, you don’t know what angry is. ”

I am will defend Pres Trump, but I am not going to knowingly lie for him. I don’t even lie for myself.

How we got stuck with sucking up to Israel. Even intelligent people get duped. That’s not to say that Humpty Trump is smart in any way. Anyway he’s just another Izzy-first useful idiot.

When she learned about the Holocaust as a teenager, Krim identified with Jews.

http://mondoweiss.net/2018/01/secret-life-mathilde/

The long meandering introductory paragraphs come right from the National Review style book.

I wondered why he didn’t go back the Kennedy’s asassination or the 1925 immigration acts

The idea that Trump made this economy is a farce. Other than the fact that some got all excited that Trump was POTUS other than Hiliary how did Trump, what did he do to change the economy in such a short time frame? irrational exuberance is all it is.

Like dropping a few regulations and passing a tax bill a month a go suddenly changed everything.

He claims credit for a low unemployment rate and doesn’t even give lip service to the 96 million Americans who have withdraw from the work force, he lies like Obama and all the pols do.

Campaign Trump and POTUS Trump are two different critters and thank god Hiliary isn’t POTUS.

Very perceptive. Pres Regean wore a bullet proof vest the day he was shot. The bullet entered side ways through the underarm and almost hit his heart.

I think they all do, especially at this inauguration with Trump so hated.

Oh I don’t know. The article gave us or at least me a lot of fun to while away the evening while most channels had the state of the union nonsense.

It is shtuka and not stuka.

It’s either in American English, which seems the default language here at UR.

Anyway, I built a model Stuka and flew it on a string way back when, so I’m familiar with the term.

Doesn’t matter if we have a constitution or not. Judges make our laws.

I’m teaching my dog to use a typewriter, and he’s making real progress. I’m confident that one day soon Rufus can submit an article to Unz, since Professor Bacevich herein demonstrates that insight and intellectual cohesion are no longer prerequisites for publication.

The truth is coming out about Trump’s enemies whom you seem eager to aid and comfort.

Aid and comfort? Nah; they can all go to the deepest pits in Hades for all I care. They all suck, and the higher ya go, the worse they suck.

You neglected to mention that as soon as the soviets arrived they murdered all the socialists who invited them and took over the Republican government.

Viva Franco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He whipped the commies as every other 20th century leader bowed in acquiescence.

Ah of course there was no corruption in the vote in Fla.,but yet Bush the stupid said don’t worry Jebby says its in the bag,this was before it had been decided by the recount,Bush and the high court.I wonder what it is about foolish people (Comes with the genes I guess) that it makes little difference in how you vote it still remains the same,as long as we can blame it on to someone else..

I will tend to support him, despite our differences. That’s the mind of a coach, facilitator, instructor and business owner.

More like the mind of a man who doesn’t know when to stop digging his own hole.

Mr. Bacevich, good article. You make a number of valid points, several of which hadn’t occurred to me. You’re probably smarter than I am. My answer to the question of how we got DJT would’ve been something like: For ~fifty years Mainstream America–the descendants of those pioneers who created America and who did the overwhelming majority of the fighting-and-dying in our many wars–watched as others, i.e. blacks & Latinos, but also other new arrivals, were moved to the head of the line for college admissions and certain jobs. They watched as major immigration policies were forced on them from the top down with effectively no national debate. They watched as they saw themselves become an ever-smaller percentage of the nation. They watched as many of their American Graffiti/Norman Rockwell-esque communities got transformed into something less desirable. They watched as their jobs were sent overseas. They watched as their values & traditions were trashed. Finally, in 2016 they collectively said to themselves, “This is like the time when the skunk and the porcupine were having sex and one said to another, ‘Enough of this is enough’” and they voted for Donald J. Trump.

If, in choosing a president on our behalf, the Supreme Court had given the nod to Al Gore instead of George Bush, might they have averted that never-ending, never-contracting war on terrorism? No doubt the 9/11 attacks would still have occurred and some U.S. military action would have ensued. But Gore did not share the obsession with Saddam Hussein that infected members of the Bush-Cheney axis. Arguably, a President Gore would have been less likely than President Bush to insist on invading a country that had played no part in the al-Qaeda conspiracy.

Prof. Bacevich is far more intelligent than this paragraph indicates, but he let his personal hatred interfere with his ability to reason objectively.

First, the Supreme Court did not “choose a president on our behalf.” The Gore campaign, along with partisan hacks in the state courts, came up with a Machiavellian scheme to rig the recounts in Florida until Gore won. The Supreme Court rightly put an end to Gore’s brazen attempt at naked election fraud.

Second, the supposition that Gore would not have invaded Iraq is purely counterfactual conjecture. Possibly he wouldn’t have invaded Iraq, but he might have done something else equally stupid. After all, the Clinton administration under which he served for eight years officially believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, enforced the no-fly zone over Iraq, and ordered 650 bombing sorties against Iraq the night before the House was to vote on impeachment in “Operation Desert Fox.” The Clinton administration also put the U.S. military into Bosnia and Kosovo, bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, sent troops to Haiti, presided over the “Blackhawk Down” disaster in Somalia, the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. They also refused to pursue Osama bin Laden on either terrorism or criminal charges and reportedly turned down a deal to capture him. (They did, however, go after the Branch Davidians and Elian Gonzalez).

What makes you think that Gore knew any more about foreign policy than Bush?

US elections are no longer about electing a president. Since Obama, the US elections are about electing a savior. Since both Obama – and as it looks – Trump will disappoint in the savior department, Oprah was to be the ultimate choice until she graciously declined to perform as a trapeze artist in the circus – maybe because of her somewhat advanced age. What nobody seems to understand is that the US elections were designed to elect a savior all right – the savior of the system not of the people.

Personally I do not want to get into this kind of discussion and I still do not.
But you have a right for my answer so I will make an exception.
In order to answer your question we have to solve one problem.

In case of murder for hire, who has the greater guilt, the person who hires the murderer or the person who performs the murder?

My opinion is without doubt, that person who performs the murder has a greater guilt.
In order for society to eliminate or at least limit murders for hire the society must deal with one of these group.
Society cannot deal with people who have means to hire a person for murder, because they are innocent until the moment hiring. On the other hand society have a chance to interfere with people who commit the murder because of their previous activities.

To transfer this principle to your question, the Academia are those who hire,
and politicians are those who do the deeds.
How can Government to influence academia I do have to admit that I do not have a clue.

One of the most pointed and astute comments I have ever seen. Bravo! Thank you Sir.

To be fair to Wally, he’s only spelling it the way people who speak English do, the same way that German speakers would write “Schoßtakowitsch,” rather than “Shostakovich.”