US Troops Mass on Turkey’s Syrian Border
Dec 07, 2012
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday the latest intelligence reports heightened fears Assad would use chemical weapons on the rebels trying to oust him.
“The intelligence that we have raises serious concerns that this is being considered,” he said.
Over four decades, Syria has amassed one of the largest undeclared stockpiles of chemicals in the world, including huge supplies of mustard gas, sarin nerve agent and cyanide, the CIA says.
There is no history more replete
of intrigue and deceit
An empire of the most unwise
risen on the back of vengeful cries
Gulf of Tonkin: McNamara admits It didn’t happen.
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Legend of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
In time, the metal turns to rust,
As do the distant memories
In empty homes across the seas.
No monuments, no graveyard stones
Mark the weary warrior’s bones
That sleep together in the dust.
Curt Bennett
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/vietnam.htm
Crosby on Kipling: A Parody of “The White Man’s Burden”
In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, commenting that it was “rather poor poetry, but good sense from the expansion point of view.” Not everyone was as favorably impressed. Poet Ernest Crosby penned a parody of Kipling’s work, “The Real White Man’s Burden,” and published it in his 1902 collection of poems Swords and Plowshares. Crosby also wrote a satirical, anti-imperialist novel, Captain Jinks, Hero, that parodied the career of General Frederick Funston, the man who had captured Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901.
With apologies to Rudyard Kipling
Take up the White Man’s burden.
Send forth your sturdy kin,
And load them down with Bibles
And cannon-balls and gin.
Throw in a few diseases
To spread the tropic climes,
For there the healthy niggers
Are quite behind the times.
And don’t forget the factories.
On those benighted shores
They have no cheerful iron mills,
Nor eke department stores.
They never work twelve hours a day
And live in strange content,
Altho they never have to pay
A single sou of rent.
Take up the White Man’s burden,
And teach the Philippines
What interest and taxes are
And what a mortgage means.
Give them electrocution chairs,
And prisons, too, galore,
And if they seem inclined to kick,
Then spill their heathen gore.
They need our labor question, too,
And politics and fraud—
We’ve made a pretty mess at home,
Let’s make a mess abroad.
And let us ever humbly pray
The Lord of Hosts may deign
To stir our feeble memories
Lest we forget—the Maine.
Take up the White’s Man’s burden.
To you who thus succeed
In civilizing savage hordes,
They owe a debt, indeed;
Concessions, pensions, salaries,
And privilege and right—
With outstretched hands you raised to bless
Grab everything in sight.
Take up the White Man’s burden
And if you write in verse,
Flatter your nation’s vices
And strive to make them worse.
Then learn that if with pious words
You ornament each phrase,
In a world of canting hypocrites
This kind of business pays.
Source: Ernest Crosby, “The Real White Man’s Burden,” Swords and Ploughshares (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1902), 32–35.
BUCKHED says:
I can only hope that McNamara,Westmoreland and others who have sent soldiers off to die for no reason are being raped on a daily basis in hell !
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8th December 2012 at 11:25 am
KaD says:
Another, probably illegal (by international standards), foreign ‘intervention’? Has no one on Capital Hill figures out that we just can’t afford this anymore?
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8th December 2012 at 11:34 am
ron says:
Most likely made up reason to go to anouther undeclared war. Seems like our military go’s all over the world telling people what to do.I wonder how long until they choose the usa as the next target.
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8th December 2012 at 12:02 pm
flash says:
There’s never a shortage of testosterone laden suckers willing to do an oligarchy’s dirty work.Just display a cross and/or a flag and the youthful morons will march happily to their deaths.
At what point do malleable suckers stop believing the lies?
John T. Flynn on Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance189.html
by Laurence M. Vance
Flynn’s sequel, The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor, first appeared on the front page of the Chicago Daily Tribune on Sunday, September 2, 1945, under the three headlines of:
Exposes More Secrets of Pearl Harbor Scandal
Blame for Tragic Delays Fixed; Blunders Bared
John T. Flynn Charges Government Knew Jap Cabinet Intended to Break Relations
The editor’s note preceding the article reads:
John T. Flynn, investigator and publicist, author of “The Truth About Pearl Harbor,” has written a second sensational article on this catastrophe. He discloses new and startling information that was in the possession of the United States high command during the final days and hours before the great Pacific base was attacked by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941. In this inclusive treatise, he fixes the blame for the disaster squarely upon Franklin D. Roosevelt, then President of the United States.
Unlike Flynn’s earlier work, the text of the pamphlet he published this time was substantially different from the newspaper article, except for the conclusion, which agrees exactly. The length of each work is about the same. And once again, the booklet adds a foreword while the newspaper article contains pictures and headings, although the booklet this time contains headings and subheadings. On the back cover of some printings there appears a “History of This Pamphlet.” This is reproduced in this reprint after the pamphlet.
A Brit Propagandist and the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/rossini7.1.1.html
by Chris Rossini
Economic Policy Journal
Recently by Chris Rossini: The Pearl Harbor ‘Surprise’
dney Rogerson wrote:
“Though we are not unfavourably placed, we shall require to do much propaganda to keep the United States benevolently neutral. To persuade her to take our part will be much more difficult, so difficult as to be unlikely to succeed. It will need a definite threat to America, a threat moreover, which will have to be brought home by propaganda to every citizen, before the republic will again take arms in an external quarrel. The position will naturally be considerably eased if Japan were involved and this might and probably would bring America in without further ado. At any rate, it would be a natural and obvious object of our propagandist to achieve this, just as during the Great War they succeeded in embroiling the United States with Germany.”
EPJ has been told that there used to be a copy of this book in The Library of Congress, but it disappeared before WWII began:
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8th December 2012 at 1:46 pm
Eddie says:
False flags and black swans…symbols we know well.
McNamara is interesting to me. I wonder if his late-in-life wisdom mitigated his serious bad karma acquired as LBJ’s hit man.
The man who gave us seat belts and body counts. I was just reading that Jackie Kennedy was the one who got him to rethink his stance on Viet Nam and made him quit his job as Secretary of Defense. Just trivia now, I guess. But interesting
Forty years…or seventy years later, nobody cares about a false flag except a few nerd historians.
If Syria does have a huge cache of chemical weapons…and Assad uses them, exactly why the hell should we be involved in it in any way? That’s what I’d like to know?
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8th December 2012 at 2:27 pm