It is sickening to think, that here we
are in the West, shouting peace and democracy and yet have been
fighting in wars more or less continuously since the end of WW2. We
in the UK came out of that war and then continued for years, fighting
numerous wars across the globe, in an attempt to hold on to “our
colonies” as one by one the people of those “colonies”, done
their best to kick our arse out of their homelands. Then there was, in no particular order,
the Suez disaster, the Korean war, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan. Not
content with that little catalogue of death and destruction, we are
ready to hold hands with that great liberator, the USA, and have a
totally unequal go at Syria. It is the same old formula, there is
this dreadful dictator, a real bad man, he has horrible weapons and
he might use them, so we have to go in and sort it out. Remember
Saddam and those Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, that never were? Of
course although Syria has such natural resources as, petroleum,
phosphates, chrome, manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt,
marble, gypsum and hydropower, that doesn't influence the West, Assad's
biggest crime is, like Saddam, he won't play ball with the Western
corporate big boys. So they call on their minders, the Western States
and their military arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. The West
will not stop its spread of death and destruction until the entire
resource rich Middle East is in turmoil, making it so much easier to
exploit all those rich natural resources. You either play ball with the Western corporate world, or the big bully boys will kick the shit out of you. Iran, beware, another bad,
bad man, with weapons of mass destruction, who won't play ball with the Wester corporate world, the fact that Iran is
sitting on such natural resources as, petroleum, natural gas, coal,
chromium, copper, iron ore, lead, manganese, zinc and sulfur, will not influence the West one little bit, the death and destruction will be for the benefit of those getting the shit kicked out of them.
The arrival of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the 11 US Navy
aircraft carriers that has the capacity to hold thousands of men, is now
stationed at the coast of Syria, DEBKAfile reports. The aircraft
carrier joined the USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, which holds
about 2,500 Marines.
“We have (US) special operations forces at
the right posture, they don’t have to be sent,” an unnamed US official
told The Australian, which suggested that US military troops are already
near Syria and ready to intervene in the conflict, if necessary.
If
the US decides to intervene militarily in Syria, it now has at its
disposal 10,000 fighting men, 17 warships, 70 fighter-bombers, 10
destroyers and frigates and a guided military cruises. Some of the
vessels are also equipped with Aegis missile interceptors to shoot down
any missiles Syria might have at hand, according to DEBKAfile.
This from ZEROHEDGE:
France is preparing its special forces for a mission in war-torn Syria, French weekly magazine Le Point reports.
The mission would only involve a relatively small amount of special
forces, and a number of NATO countries — including the UK and the US —
would be involved. The mission would be modelled on the Western
intervention in Libya, the magazine reports.The action appears to be in response to fears that the regime is
planning on using chemical weapons in the conflict. Earlier this week
one US official told reporters that it was believed Bashar al-Assad's
forces had moved two key components of a deadly nerve gas in preparation
for an attack (a later report refuted this, however).
Le Point says a large ground operation "is out of the question" and
that a smaller action aimed largely at securing chemical weapon
stockpiles. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today vowed a swift response if Assad's regime used chemical weapons.
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