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You're blowing it, man. All you have to do is say, yes, absolutely, I agree, and we should all agree about this and about the Pentagon, too, man.

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It's one big empire, and I'm sorry for Pierce and everybody.

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The crisis and the scandal with USAID is not just pissing away money on these kind of ridiculous things, as you name.

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This is the major engine of regime change overseas.

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We get distracted by things like George W. Bush marching the entire 3rd Infantry Division into Iraq and things like that.

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But starting in late Clinton and through W. Bush and Obama, we've had what are called the color-coded revolutions all over, mostly in Eastern Europe and in Russia's near abroad, mostly overthrowing governments that are friendly to the Russians and helping to cause this horrible new Cold War that we're in right now.

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And they started it in the Balkans in the late 1990s and with, of course, Serbia in the year 2000, Georgia in 2003, Ukraine the first time in 2004.

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They did it again in 2014.

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They did the failed Denim Revolution in Belarus and the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan and the failed Cedar Revolution in Lebanon in 2005 and on and on like this.

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And the worst crisis, the worst thing that USAID has ever done by far is 10 years ago their avowed support for the bin Ladenites in Syria in Barack Obama's dirty war on behalf of the Syrians.

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And this is where – pardon me – the Syrian so-called revolution, which was really al-Qaeda in Iraq in Syria, the bad guys from the last war.

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And why? And this is where our conversation comes full circle, because America, following, as your other guest here said, following Netanyahu's advice and the neoconservatives working for him, lying us into war with Iraq,

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they empowered Iran and put the Iraqi Shiite supermajority in power in Baghdad.

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So then they panicked and they launched what the Bush administration called the redirection.

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They said, now we have to tilt back toward the Sunnis.

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If we put Iran up two pegs, the Shiites up two pegs in Baghdad, then we have to take them down a peg in Syria.

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And that means getting rid of Bashar al-Assad.

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And as we discussed the last time I was on your show debating Wesley Clark, Pierce, that means, as we see right now, just as happened two months ago finally,

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al-Qaeda in Iraq in Syria, led by Mohammed al-Jolani, has just seized power in Damascus and taken over the country.

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And it was USAID up to that in their eyeballs the whole time.

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And why? Because they're making up for the disaster of doing what Netanyahu had recommended the time before that.

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OK, Michael, just to bring it back.