h/t to PhilJD for the title.
The first thing I want to make clear is that I am unequivocally opposed to bombing or any other involvement by the U.S. in Syria. I am now on the record as being opposed to killing Syrians to save Syrians.
Brother where art thou?
What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.
What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income — to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
Make no mistake that launching bombs against another sovereign nation constitutes war. You can dress it up as a "humanitarian effort" to save people, how killing more people accomplishes that objective I guess only Harvard grads can understand.
Are you convinced yet?
Peace prize my ass.
I've got something for you, it's down there.
Rick Rozoff
So, I mean the incentive for Israel as well as for Saudi Arabia to eliminate such a bastion or outpost of independence or non-alignment in the Middle East seems fairly obvious. I think your listeners and viewers may want to recall that roughly 13 months ago, that is on August 4th of 2012, during the course of a General Assembly meeting in the United Nations, the Israeli ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, made a comment to the effect, I am almost quoting him, saying that a regime, meaning the government in Damascus, that would kill its own children would not hesitate to kill them with chemical weapons.
Now, Ambassador Prosor is hardly a Hebrew prophet on the order of a Daniel, Amos, Isaac, Jeremiah and so forth, rather I think that that was a tip-off that the United States and Israel were going to use the chemical weapons issue 13 months ago and longer as its so-called redline in order to justify unjustifiable military attacks against the government in Syria.
Watch the
video and I dare you to defend the "NewsMax" guy.
William Polk
“The one thing we should learn is that you can’t get a little bit pregnant.”
(snip)
As the former American ambassador to Syria commented “A couple of cruise missiles are not going to change their way of thinking.” And, Zinni put it in more pointed terms, “You’ll knee-jerk into the first option, blowing something up, without thinking through what this could lead to.”
The Hill’s Syria Whip List
Both those that support death and those that support life should use the phone the NSA is tracking and voice their opinion. Remember the fact, if you are doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. Sure would be nice if our leaders were held to the same standard.