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The U.S. today began bombing targets inside Syria, in concert with its lovely and inspiring group of five allied regimes: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Jordan.
That means that Syria becomes the 7th predominantly Muslim country bombed by the 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate - after Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Iraq.
The utter lack of interest in what possible legal authority Obama has to bomb Syria is telling indeed: empires bomb who they want, when they want, for whatever reason (indeed, recall that Obama bombed Libya even after Congress explicitly voted against authorization to use force, and very few people seemed to mind that abject act of lawlessness; constitutional constraints are not for warriors and emperors).
It was just over a year ago that Obama officials were insisting that bombing and attacking Assad was a moral and strategic imperative. Instead, Obama is now bombing Assad's enemies while politely informing his regime of its targets in advance. It seems irrelevant on whom the U.S. wages war; what matters it that it be at war, always and forever.
Six weeks of bombing hasn't budged ISIS in Iraq, but it has caused ISIS recruitment to soar. That's all predictable: the U.S. has known for years that what fuels and strengthens anti-American sentiment (and thus anti-American extremism) is exactly what they keep doing: aggression in that region. If you know that, then they know that. At this point, it's more rational to say they do all of this not despite triggering those outcomes, but because of it. Continuously creating and strengthening enemies is a feature, not a bug, as it is what then justifies the ongoing greasing of the profitable and power-vesting machine of Endless War.
If there is anyone who actually believes that the point of all of this is a moral crusade to vanquish the evil-doers of ISIS (as the U.S. fights alongside its close Saudi friends), please read Professor As'ad AbuKhalil's explanation today of how Syria is a multi-tiered proxy war. As the disastrous Libya "intervention" should conclusively and permanently demonstrate, the U.S. does not bomb countries for humanitarian objectives. Humanitarianism is the pretense, not the purpose.
Where is the outrage. Of course there is none, Obama is just a mouthpiece, his masters have subjected the citizens of the Western nations into submission through fear and intimidation.
They have created chaos on territories far and away from there own homelands. Saying to the population we need to do this (bomb innocent people, invade sovereign countries, shred international law)
so that you can be safe and sleep in your beds a night.
Ah! thank goodness my government has got my back covered.
So what do they do invent and create a bogeyman Islam, militant organizations, political dissenters, chose your own term, I don't care it's all the same, kill some innocent people so we in the West can feel safe and sleep in our beds at night with an untroubled conscience because they are over there, they are not like us. Just what the PTB want you to think.
Peace prize my ass, well lately it seems to me that it's more a badge of honor, an ego stroking thing for psychopaths.
Look what we do! We make this a better world, a safer world! All the while speaking out of the other side of there mouths plotting and scheming who can they hit next for world hegemony.