It appears that President Obama is going to effectuate some military arial strikes in Syria as retaliation for the deaths of many children due to chemical attacks. There will be no formal authorization from Congress under the U.S. Constitution, or the U.N. General Assembly under its Charter or justification based upon international law. A solid majority of Americans are against getting involved in this ugly civil war.
However, the opinions of Americans, and the requirements of any Constitution or Charter, are irrelevant for our Peace-Prize President. He is a corrupt, vile, mendacious fraudster who enables the continuing gargantuan crimes by a wealthy and powerful oligarchy against the rest of humanity. He’s the smiling bi-racial puppet to the international oligarchy of bankers, financiers, the military industrial complex, the oil and natural resource extraction industry, and an unconstitutional, unaccountable security state.
As always in the Middle East, we go there for oil and fossil fuels, and their extraction and distribution. Plans have been in the works for over a decade to build oil and natural gas pipelines through Syria from other nations where they are extracted, in order to connect them to ports and other countries where they are needed. The U.S. and many other European and Middle Eastern nations believe those pipelines must be built in a secure Syria that will not disrupt those shipments. What type of actual government exists in Damascus is irrelevant so long it is an obedient puppet to the oil and natural resource industry.
There was never going to be any meaningful public debate in this nation with respect to our out-of-control security state, the demise of our Constitution, nor our continuing global war-mongering to prop up criminal cartels of various corporations that dominate the politics and economics of so many nations around the world. Our criminal elites have decided the policies they will pursue for their profit, and our opinions are completely irrelevant. I am not going to lose sleep over it and neither should you.
I suspect that one can be thankful that few U.S. troops will be employed – rather we will use massive air power. If we cannot remove the chemical weapons in the hands of the government or insurgents – what purpose will those air strikes serve? This civil war has too many warring and hating factions and tribes in one small country – a vestige of 20th Century British and French colonialism. What is the end game plan for Syria? Rarely our leaders bother with such considerations.
If these bombings provide fodder for related extremists to pursue terrorist actions in Europe or the U.S., then what will be our next military response? Our military industrial complex does not know its limits until it is too obvious. We should not justify our oil policies by feigning sympathy for gassed children. We cannot solve the insanity in a country where such actions are taken – no matter how many bombs we drop or troops we put on the ground.
This civil war might be a perfect place for testing our robotics and drone technology. If we successfully targeted the current Syrian leadership and the leaders of most of the warring factions, we might eliminate the principle impediments to peaceful negotiations towards a rational division of the country along tribal, sectarian and religious groups. We are probably not that technologically advanced considering our recent track record of generally hitting weddings and funeral processions around the Moslem world. Just ask the CIA how many exploding cigars worked against Castro.
Decisions over the social, political and economic lives of most human beings, the well-being of our planet and environment, and over life and death itself, are made by a small group of arrogant, greedy, hubristic, narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths who care nothing about 90% of humanity. Someday when the majority of people come to realize this, then our global criminal oligarchy will be running for their lives instead of hoisting terror and misery upon the rest of us.
Respectfully Submitted by Marc Pascal, ranting from Phoenix, Arizona.