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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.
Comment: Parliamentary member Samem should've realized by now that any support coming from the international community, especially from the US, has resulted in nothing other than an increasing number of dead civilians caused by NATO and their Taliban allies. Former president Karzai hit the nail on the head: The purpose of the invasion was never to establish peace. It is therefore mind-boggling that despite this fact, president-'elect' Ghani has said to sign the 'security' agreement that would enable 10k American military 'advisers' to stay in Afghanistan next year. It is obvious that this National Unity Government is more interested in serving the Western warmongers, than serving the Afghan people and truly establishing stability in the country. With people like Ghani and Abdullah running the country, there is little hope left for Afghanistan.
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