The hounds of war are howling again,
the blood of innocent Libyans, Afghans and Iraqis still dripping from
their teeth. The stench of hypocrisy chokes your nostrils as the
double speak, waffle and babble fills the air. Once again America
aims to lead the West in another drive-by shooting. This time it is
the people of Syria that will feel the destruction of “clinical
strikes”, “precision bombing”, and because we are the good guys
our “intelligent bombing” will not hurt any innocent people.
These phrases are an attempt to sanitise murder, to legitimise
wholesale destruction on a horrific scale, giving the arms industry
something to boost their share price. Because of our compassion for
the people of Syria we are going to subject them to a 21st century
Dante's inferno. You can rest assured that the “punitive strike”
against Asaad will be felt by bus drivers, office workers, shop
assistants, engineers and plumbers, men, women, children and old folk.
Referring to the chemical attack, Cameron's compassion is shown as
veneer by his statement, that we can't stand by and see people killed
like that, obviously he feels it is much better to blow them to
pieces, maim them, blind them, sever limbs, traumatise them and destroy their
infrastructure.
For whatever reason, the West has
wanted rid of Asaad, perhaps it was because he doesn't let the mighty
dollar exploit that country's resources, or some other reason that
seems valid to the Western financial/corporate Mafia. Arming the
“rebels” appeared to a safe bet for them, even although the
“rebels” contained a rat-bag of opposing religious fundamentalist
groups, some on the West's own terror group list, already being armed by that bastion of democracy, Saudi Arabia. Chaos in that
country, similar to Iraq, would allow the Western corporate world to
go in and really plunder its resources. Now it appears that the
rebels are no longer a safe winning bet, they reckon they'll have to
beat the regime up a bit, to soften them for the “rebels” to do
the rest of the dirty work. Then proclaim that the Syrian people have spoken.
The people of Syria are suffering
immeasurable horror and hardship at the moment, the last thing they
need is for some foreign “super power” and its minnions, to bomb
the country's infrastructure back to the stone age, while adding to
the death toll of innocent men, women and children. Ask yourself, who
gains from this latest drive-by shooting? Will the fountain of
freedom and democracy spring forth from the smoke of cruise missiles?
Will the world be a safer place? Or will the Western corporate Mafia
have a greater opportunity to exploit that part of the world?
