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Bombs Away! Washington Has Gone Stark Raving Mad
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
America’s spanker-in-chief is at it again - threatening to bomb Syria owing to the uncivilized actions of its inhabitants. And when it comes to Syria, Washington avers that there are punishable malefactors virtually everywhere within its borders.
Exactly one year ago Obama proposed to take Bashir Assad to the woodshed because he had allegedly unleashed a vicious chemical attack on his own citizens. That was all pretext, of course, because even the CIA refused to sign-off on the flimsy case for Assad’s culpability at the time—-a reluctance corroborated since then by the considerable evidence that hundreds of Syrian civilians were murdered during a false flag operation staged by the rebels with help from Turkey. The aim of the rebels, of course, was to activate American tomahawk missiles and bombers in behalf of “regime change”, which was also the stated goal of the Obama Administration.
Now the White House is threatening to bomb Syria again, but this time its “regime change” objective has been expanded to include both sides! In 12 short months what had been the allegedly heroic Sunni opposition to the “brutal rule” of the Assad/Alawite minority has transmuted into the “greatest terrorist threat ever”, according to the Secretary of Defense.
So Obama has already unleashed the drones and surveillance apparatus to identify targets of attack that will help bring down a regime in northern and eastern Syria—the so-called Islamic State—which did not even exist a year ago. And a regime that is now armed to the teeth with America’s own latest and greatest weaponry as previously supplied to the disintegrated Iraqi army and the Syrian rebels trained by the CIA in Jordan.
Adding to this blinding farce is the warning of Syria’s Foreign Affairs minister that Obama should please to request permission before he rains destruction from the sky on the Opposition—-that is, the opposition to the very same Damascus regime which the White House has vowed to eradicate. Needless to say, the Washington apparatus is having nothing to do with aiding the enemy of its new enemy:
White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Monday tried to tamp down the notion that action against the Islamic State group could bolster Assad, saying, “We’re not interested in trying to help the Assad regime.” However, he acknowledged that “there are a lot of cross pressures
In fact, there is apparently an option emerging from the bowels of the war machine that calls for an odd/even day plan to bomb both sides, thereby making clear that Washington is an equal opportunity spanker. Apparently, whether you use a 12th century sword or 20th century attack helicopter as a means of rule, you will be bombed by the “indispensable nation”, as Obama put it, adding that “no other nation can do what we do”.
Well, that involves some “doing”. According to AP, it appears that Syrian airstrikes are imminent, but could be carried out under the odd/even day plan:
“In an effort to avoid unintentionally strengthening the Syrian government, the White House could seek to balance strikes against the Islamic State with attacks on Assad regime targets.”
Is any more evidence needed that Washington has gone stark raving mad than even the possibility that such an absurd option could be under consideration? Has not the imperial city on the Potomac become so inured to its pretensions of global hegemony and to instant resort to deployment of its war machine that any semblance of rationality and coherence has been dissolved?
Indeed, in the context of Syria’s fractured and riven tribal, religious and political splinters how could anyone in their right mind think that a bombing campaign without boots on the ground will accomplish anything other than function as a potent recruiting tool for ISIS, and a generator of jihadist blowback for years to come. By the same token, the White House’s polling machine surely documents that an outright Iraq-style invasion of the Islamic State is overwhelmingly opposed by the American people, and rightly so.
Accordingly, the silly, hapless man in the Oval Office stumbles forward, apparently unaware that he’s not merely playing video games during his sojourns in the Situation Room. Indeed, the make-believe “nuanced” bombing options that are likely to be ground out by the national security machinery are destined to fail and drag Washington ever deeper into the violent cauldron of Mesopotamia and the Levant. The trillions of treasure wasted, the millions of lives lost and the venomous tribal enmities resulting from Washington’s misbegotten ventures in Iraq and Afghanistan provide all the proof that is needed.
The fact is, the artificial states created by the Sykes-Picot map drawn up by the French and British foreign offices in 1916—- as they carved up the Ottoman empire— are now destined for the dustbin of history. The fracturing remnants of Syria and Iraq cannot be fused back together by means of lethal deposits of metal and chemicals delivered by tomahawks and F-16s.
So let the region rearrange itself without Washington’s unwelcome meddling and mayhem. If Turkey and an independent Kurdistan can make mutually acceptable political and economic arrangements, which are already well-advanced, so be it. If the Shiite south in Iraq and the Alawite/Shiite southwest in Syria break-off from their present Europe-bequeathed boundaries and form independent regimes, how does that jeopardize the safety and security of the citizens of Lincoln NE and Spokane WA?
And, yes, if the Islamic State temporarily manages to coalesce within the Sunni lands of the Euphrates Valley and the upper Tigress why is that really a national security threat which requires launching an unwinnable war, a new round of hostility to America in the Islamic world and the blowback of legions of jihadi with a score to settle?
Now that you know about the Yazidis, did you ever hear of the Sheitaat tribe of Sunnis who inhabit the minor oil province around Deir al-Zor in northeastern Syria? There appear to be about 100,000 members of that sect in the region and they have been declared apostates by the medieval butchers who run ISIS:
Hundreds of members of the Sheitaat clan have been executed after their tribe refused to submit to Islamic State. The entire tribe have been deemed “hostile apostates” by the group, an offshoot of al Qaeda that has declared a “caliphate” in the territory it holds.
Islamic State has declared the Sheitaat tribe “an unbelieving sect” that should be fought as if they were infidels, according to a report from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence in the Syrian war.
At least 700 hundred members of the tribe have already been executed, the Observatory reported on Aug. 16.
Another 1,800 are still missing after being detained by Islamic State, according to the Observatory, which gathers information from all sides in the Syrian war. Its efforts to pledge allegiance to Islamic State have been rebuffed.
Pictures of the bodies of men apparently slain by Islamic State fighters in Sheitaat areas are surfacing every day, said Rami Abdelrahman, founder of the Observatory. “We have repeatedly expressed concerns about extermination,” he said.
“It is the first time that the Islamic State has used these (religious) concepts against an entire tribe,” he said.
Three Sheitaat villages seized by Islamic State have been designated as a military zone, the rebel and another activist from the area said. The clan’s property and livestock have also been seized, another person from the area said.
Islamic State has declared that no truce is possible with the Sheitaat, that its prisoners can be killed, and its women are unfit for marriage, according to the Observatory.
“We’re still seeing Islamic State trucks loaded up with furniture and rugs from Sheitaat homes in those villages, which are now totally abandoned,” said one person from the area contacted by internet link, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Islamic State has started to use house demolitions as a punishment. A video posted over the weekend shows what appears to be the detonation of a rural home as the narrator, who identifies himself as from Islamic State, explains that the home belongs to Sheitaat “apostates”.
Why would you believe that a viable state can be built in today’s world on the tactics of Genghis Kahn? The Islamic State, such as it is, is not rich, does not have enough oil to make a difference, will soon be bogged down in the insuperable problems of governance by the sword and will flounder on the impoverished economics of the dusty villages and desert expanse which comprise its natural territory. And it will eventually mobilize its neighbors—-Turkey, Hezbollah, the rump regime of Assad’s Alawite Syria, Kurdistan, the Shiite alliance of Iran and lower Iraq, and even Saudi Arabia and the oil sheikdoms—to contain its external ambitions.
So Washington should call off the bombers and get out of harm’s way. The American Imperium has failed and the prospect of bombing both sides of an irrelevant non-country’s ancient tribal wars ought, at last, to make that much clear.
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Ain't that the truth can't seem to upvote you
Very first thing that popped into my mind when I read it.
Exactly what the Israelis have been doing for decades.
Can't green arrow due to italics, but I guess you knew that.
Like the market bubble the Moslem bubble has to be poked at regular intervals as noticed since the 7th century. Also notice that the Slams are not bothering China or Russia very much but they have had the West at their mercy. China and Russia will not play with them like B Hussein O has.
China and Russia would not hurriedly take down a "We Serve Bacon" sign as we so cowardly did. English banks had to stop rewarding new accounts with piggy banks because they were soooo offensive. They could take Britain faster than they took Spain - for centuries.
Exactly. 'Invade the world, invite the world' is the West's approach. Bomb them abroad, grovel to them at home. Russia and China on the otehr hand leave the Muzzie countries alone, but if their own Muzzies act up, as they are won't to do, they get slapped down mercilessly. That's the way to do it.
Sooner or later someone will bite and we'll get our big war.
Just you wait and see.
My tax dollars at work.
Oh fuck me I don't even know who to vote against any more. Everybody I guess.
Tine to buy more silver and lead....
Vote local and regional. Nationally is doen't mean squat....the fuckers are selected and chosen and then manipulated more than a.....bingo ball in a beach ball...
How do you think we got a double dose of Barry Fuckbama?
Actual people voting for the fucker?
No.
Americans have been educated by the Jews, how to capture a country and how to install in that country a corrupt stupido, as the boss of the governrment. Jews practice this in US since some 100 years.
So now the CIA learned it from the Jews as well and tries it arround the middle East , Eastern Europe and Africa.
poor amateurs, those Amuricnas, if I compare it to the Chazars.
Exactly. Obama is a total invention of the The Chicago Boys, David Axelrod/Rahm Emanual/Saul Alinsky et al., who calculated long ago that a mixture of a victim-class candidate, a 100 percent blessing from the banking cartel, and a Jewish-controlled media would win mob-voter elections from here to eternity.
Fortunately for the Chicago Boys, they came to power just as the full impact of the 1965 Immigration Act (switching immigration from European sources to the Third World on Jewish claims that America’s old immigration policy was “racist”) gave them the needed wave of low-information and race-biased voters whose numbers show that they vote strictly by color for Democrats, thus solidifying Obama’s support. All "victims," don't ya know?
I am pretty sure that Obama's masters do not see Syria as irrelevant. Syria is a holdout to the international (read BIS related) central banking empire...
... as WAS Iraq
... As WAS Afghanisan
... As WAS Libya (they did not even have Gadhafi's corpse before they set up a central bank in Benghazi)
... as was the Sudan (pretty sure)
... as IS Iran, and N. Korea and Cuba and Venezuela (pretty sure). Why is it that we seem to only hate countries without BIS tied central banks. What an odd coincidence, no?
If you are looking for why, then look no further than the your friendly neighborhood psychotic, megalomaniac banker and his herd of technocratic sycophants.
And who is really behind the international bankers you may ask ... lol... the beast with 7 heads and 10 horns most likely. If you can solve that riddle.
"All wars are bankers' wars" General Smedley Butler.
Zee anti-Zionists are in full tinfoil-hat mode, I see.
Please... the USA are running the show, not the Zionists. The USA's leaders are the psychos, not the Zionists. If anyone thinks otherwise, then prove it.
Quote, "Your votes mean nothing, both sides or the spectrum have been groomed by the AIPAC. They own the airwaves and Wall Street. They are the PUPPET MASTERS"
Any proof? Wait, I forgot: the "Illuminati Zio-banksters" are MASTERS AT EVADING DETECTION, is that it?
Fact : the USA, whether they are really threatened by ISIL or not (in my humble, they're not, it's all show) are very happy with them, as it provides them with yet another phony pretext to try and topple Assad. Which has nothing to do with Israel, but would weaken their arch-enemy Putin.
To conclude, somebody will have to explain to me how being surrounded with explosive countries led by islamic loonies serves Israel. In my book, when you're a tiny state that's always been threatened, you want to be surrounded by stable countries ruled by non-religious, secular-minded guys you can discuss with. Saddam or Assad-like guys, for instance. When did either of them do or say anything against Israel? Transforming the ME into a powderkeg would be shooting themselves in the foot. So, that can only be American policy, not Israel's.
About the Zionist US neocons, well, they have to do what the USA says, otherwise the protection of the USA military might is withdrawn and Israel finds itself alone in the midst of secular enemies. For a country with a mere 8 million population (more or less the same as the sole NYC), it's a powerful incentive to rant and rave on cue.
Hmmm. Joined about the time the Gaza slaughter kicked off, eh "Lea".
How is that hasbara program working for you?
We need get the hell out of the middleeast altogether, how about that for a solution?
i have to agree with you on this one...i guess that's what happens when you put a black man in the office...mind boggling...odd even days? wtf.
David answered his own question...
"Indeed, in the context of Syria’s fractured and riven tribal, religious and political splinters how could anyone in their right mind think that a bombing campaign without boots on the ground will accomplish anything other than function as a potent recruiting tool for ISIS, and a generator of jihadist blowback for years to come."
A guy once said, war is a racket.