Over the weekend, President Trump celebrated firing more than 100 missiles into Syria by Tweeting, “Mission Accomplished!” They say if you cannot learn from history you are condemned to repeat it. So I guess we are repeating it.
We all remember that “Mission Accomplished” was the banner behind then-President Bush as he gloated aboard a US navy ship that the war in Iraq had been won. After his “victory,” however, some 4,000 US military personnel were killed, perhaps a million Iraqis were killed, and the country’s infrastructure and social fabric were so badly destroyed that they probably can never be repaired.
Actually, there is much about the US attack on Syria that reminds us of Iraq.
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With Iraq, the US moved in to start bombing before international inspectors had completed their mission to verify whether or not Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Had they been allowed to complete their mission and verify that he did not, imagine the suffering, death, and destruction that could have been avoided. In Syria, the US decided to start bombing before the international inspectors were even allowed to start checking claims that Assad gassed his own people in Douma. Why? What was the rush? Was Washington afraid they might not find Assad guilty?
Who really benefits from US attacks on the Syrian government? There were reports that ISIS began making moves immediately after the air strikes. Do we really want to be al-Qaeda and ISIS’s airforce? Is that going to keep us safer? I remember when al-Qaeda was actually considered our enemy, not an ally in overthrowing the last secular government in the Middle East.
Will Syria’s Christians be better off after the recent US attack? Just over a week ago Christians celebrated Easter in Aleppo for the first time in years. What changed? The Syrian army kicked out al-Qaeda, which had been occupying the eastern part of the city. So no, Christians will be much worse off if our “moderate terrorists” take control of Syria.
If Syria really had sarin and other chemical weapons factories, does it make sense for the US to bomb the buildings and risk killing thousands by widely disbursing the poisons? Does it make sense to risk killing Syrian civilians with chemical weapons in retaliation for allegations that the Syrian government killed civilians with chemical weapons? No, it seems more like the phony “mobile WMD labs” we were told that Saddam Hussein had constructed.
If the US knew Syria was manufacturing chemical weapons in the buildings they bombed, why not notify the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)? The OPCW had certified the very building the US bombed as chemical weapons free not that long ago. Why not just call them up and ask them to check it out? After all, they were just arriving in the country as the US started bombing.
There are many more questions about President Trump’s terrible decision to again make war on Syria. For example, where is Congress? It was disgraceful to see Speaker Paul Ryan telling the President he needs no Congressional authorization to attack Syria. All Members of Congress take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and the Constitution says that only Congress can declare war. Does that oath mean nothing these days?
President Trump will come to regret the day he let the neocons take over his foreign policy. Their track record is abysmal. His attack on Syria was clearly illegal and should his party lose the House in November he may find his new fair-weather friends in the Democratic Party quickly turning foul.
Israel, the only benafactor. I had a Ron Paul bumper sticker on. If only he would have been selected instead of the bomber. And now we are stuck with a liar,fraud,fake, war criminal.
The US Presidency – Only criminals need apply.
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No one listens to Ron Paul anymore, do they? (Not even here apparently, this being just the 3rd comment.)
Damned shame because he asks all the right questions.
Now Trump is leveling even more sanctions today against Russia. You see the American Empire believes it has the right to tell other sovereign nations with who they can be friends with. Such arrogance. I hope I’m still alive when this whole shitfuk edifice crumbles to dust.
Your hope is my expectation (I’m only 72.5 and expect to see the imminent planned collapse & SHTF) and your hope is my fear because it will be Biblical level Planned Chaos that should be every American’s fear (less those stupid Useful Idiots who love godless Cultural Communism and the ZOG’s NWO).
Out of all the lowlife scum in Wa DC Ron Paul and possibaly Rand
are the only men worthy of life.
Ron Paul correctly stated that our foreign policy is “Do what we tell you and we will give you money. Don’t do what we tell you and we will bomb you.”
We no longer live under the protection of the Constitution because the men ruling this country from the top down;including law enforcement, do not honor it.
We live under administrative law; an amoral law practiced by amoral men for self-serving purposes.
The Constitution was created by honorable men for educated informed people who wanted to live as free individuals guiding their own life aims and values, but respecting other individuals and their aims and values.
Administrative Law was created to control the life of people. It is self-evident in the way it is forced and enforced by an army of law enforcement officials who’s duty is to those that practice this amoral law.
Because our leaders do not have value nor do they practice it they will continue to make disastrous decisions until they completely destroy this country.