Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Another Western War Waged Under False Pretenses?

If you loved the genocidal, seemingly interminable 2003-2013 slaughter of Iraqis waged by USA under false pretenses, you'll LOVE the impending intervention in Syria. I grieve for the Syrian people, but US intervention is almost always exclusively military in nature, and always serves to worsen a bad situation. It's a fascinating exercise in double-speak that US Secretary of State John Kerry insists the Syrian government destroyed the evidence proving it committed a chemical attack, but now, precisely because the West is lacking such evidence, it's finally time to intervene. Maybe even with boots on the ground, who knows. OK, Kerry didn't exactly put it like I did, but that's the sense I'm getting. I was pleased thus far that President Obie at least had enough sense to say the hell out, but it looks like the American Pentagon-Prison-Industrial Complex, so disastrouly dependent on military spending and intervention, is itching for yet ANOTHER wretched war. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-heir-to-blair-david-cameron-makes-moral-case-for-attack-on-syria-in-echo-of-defence-for-iraq-war-8786783.html

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