Britain’s opposition Labour
Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has correctly identified US militarism as a
threat to global peace, an American political activist and analyst says.
Myles
Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks
in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on a speech
Corbyn gave on foreign policy on Friday in London.
Corbyn said US
President Donald Trump has made the world a more dangerous place “by
recklessly escalating the confrontation” with North Korea and Syria.
He
added that Trump is determined to add to existing global problems and
accused British Prime Minister Theresa May of pandering to the US
president.
Corbyn warned that May was seeking to “build a coalition of risk and insecurity with Donald Trump.” Corbyn's election promises the hope of a sane foreign policy
“With
Trump, paranoid and delusional Democrats and Theresa May, can the world
handle moderation, reason and wisdom from a politician like Corbyn?
Yes, and we’re seeing a global trend that is slowly moving in that
direction,” Hoenig said.
“A third of the French voters supported
the Socialist Melenchon, which is normal for France. A third supported
the alt right of Le Pen, and the final decision was to maintain a status
quo with Macron. In Korea, one who is likely to stand up to the
bellicosity of Trump was just overwhelmingly elected. It’ll be a long
while before Moon is invited to the White House,” he stated.
“The
world’s political stage does swing back and forth, except in the US.
Wall Street’s president, Obama, was replaced by an alleged billionaire
Trump. The question is, as the US really does not change except for
personalities, can the world, with rational leaders like Corbyn, move it
away from the disasters of capitalism and war mongering?” he noted. Trump helping to label the US as a pariah nation US
President Donald Trump (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu walk into the White House in Washington, DC, February 15,
2017. (Photo by AFP)“As the military ruler of
the ‘free world’, the best other national leaders could do is to isolate
the US and set their policies independent of what Wall Street demands
and expects,” Hoenig said.
“When President Obama was elected, he
brought in the major leaders of the banking industry to the White House
for a ‘smack down’. Instead, they left smiling and relieved to know that
their crimes against the people of America were to be ignored by this
new ‘progressive’ president,” he stated.
“Militarists in the Bush
administration were retained by Obama. In effect, the US political
system is consistent in its support for Wall Street and everything
military. Trump is helping to make the US the pariah nation it has long
avoided being labeled and deserved. Party affiliation makes little
difference in US policy,” he said.
“The US today needs to be isolated for the sake of world peace,” the analyst stressed.
“Corbyn
was absolutely correct in identifying the US as a global threat. As
Trump is only carrying on the military policies of his predecessors,
Corbyn would hopefully deny this imperial power the military and
political cover that England has provided since Tony Blair was prime
minister,” the activist said.
“Talking with your enemy is not
weakness but sanity. Moon campaigned on re-opening a dialog with North
Korea. If not openly discussing talking with Assad of Syria, Corbyn
clearly expresses that his country should not be part of the regime
change policy of the US,” he concluded.
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