Since 9/11
the state’s power has grown exponentially and it’s ability to wage war and
infiltrate a digitized populace has reached epic proportions, but the pendulum
has reached its apogee. The Obama
Administration has made a terrible miscalculation regarding the public’s
reaction to it’s proposed military intervention in Syria and it appears the
President will not be able to garner the votes needed in congress to pass the
resolution in support of his plan to attack Assad.
As Private
Manning sits in a prison cell and Eric Snowden lives in exile, AIPAC is working tirelessly to lobby congress to pass the war resolution,
but the public’s heart is with Snowden and Manning, not Netanyahu. If Obama and AIPAC lose this vote their grand
plan to confront Iran’s nuclear aspirations will crumble. If Americans reject a military intervention
in order to punish Assad for his supposed use of WMD’s, how will they ever support taking on the
Iranian regime for just having them?
This is not the same America that re-elected George Bush in 2004.
Kerry’s Case
Secretary
of State John Kerry made a forceful argument in favor of intervention:
"In an
increasingly complicated world of sectarian and religious extremist violence,
what we choose to do -- or not do -- matters in real ways to our own security. Some cite the risk of doing things. We need to ask what is the risk of doing
nothing.
It matters
because if we choose to live in a world where a thug and a murderer like Bashar
al-Assad can gas thousands of his own people with impunity even after the United States and our allies said no, and then the
world does nothing about it, there will be no end to the test of our resolve
and the dangers that will flow from those others who believe that they can do
as they will."
Many
Americans would have rallied to this call for war in the early years of this
century, but not now. They know that
President Obama has killed hundreds of innocent civilians with drones, some of
them even Americans. They know that
hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s were killed under false pretenses. Not only
were innocents killed and money wasted, but strategically Iraq has moved under the influence of supposed arch enemy Iran while the Taliban are simply waiting
for the NATO troops to leave before making their final assault on the puppet
government installed in Afghanistan.
What was
also conspicuous in Mr. Kerry’s speech was what he didn't mention. Are the Saudis, the Qataris, and the CIA also
‘thugs’ for financing, training and facilitating a civil war that has killed
over a hundred thousand people? And why
are the Saudis and Qataris doing this and why don’t we stop them? Apparently Mr. Kerry believes there is
something ‘sectarian and religious’ about bringing natural gas from Qatar to Europe
through a proposed pipeline through Syria.
Since almost 25% of Europe’s natural gas comes from Russia’s Gazprom,
the Russian angle becomes clear. But if
Americans aren't buying the WMD story, it’s even more unlikely they would
support a war to reduce Gazprom’s market share in Europe.
The Danger
Democracy
is a messy business and if we had one, we would be reminded of it
constantly. However, we live in a plutocracy where public opinion is created through corporate media. The fabricated message being sent is that
Muslims are the enemy and Israel is our closest ally. Israel, however, does have a real problem
with its Muslim neighbors, especially Syria, Iran, Lebanon and the Palestinian
state it occupies. In a democracy there
would be a stormy debate as to whether Israel’s security has any bearing on
America's well being and it would be openly argued for America to jettison the ‘special relationship’ with Israel.
This debate
never occurs in America because it’s corporate media has a strong pro-Israel bias and questioning the 'special relationship' with Israel is taboo. Both those in and outside the US Government who strongly believe that America must stand by the Jewish
state are being faced with the reality that the moment for action has passed
and the pendulum is beginning a long journey back toward isolationism and cynicism
regarding the state security apparatus.
Syria is
their last chance and it is quickly slipping through their fingers. If there is no attack on Syria, the chances of attacking Iran will quickly
fade to zero. If one believes that there
is a grand strategy then we have reached a critical and dangerous moment. If Obama backs down and doesn't attack, he
will lose enough international credibility to make him a de-facto foreign policy
lame duck just as the Iranians cross the nuclear threshold. This is unacceptable to those bent on
protecting Israel’s monopoly on nuclear weapons in the Middle East.
It seems
highly unlikely that this group of people will allow President Putin to become
the new voice of reason in the region.
The absurdity of Assad committing this gassing, Putin’s argument, is now
also being supported by intelligence as reported in a Huff Post article which quoted a report that seems to contradict the Obama Administration's claim
that Assad was the perpetrator of the gas attack. It would be catastrophic to the US standing in
the world if it were proved that this was a false flag attack by the rebels in
Syria, and more importantly it would make it almost impossible to make a case for
the ultimate target, Iran.
No Exit
It’s
difficult to fathom that those who brought us the war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, the NSA surveillance apparatus, The
Department of Homeland security and the drone war will simply take their
bows and fade away. Their only options
at this point are either to force the issue in Syria and quickly escalate it
through their time honored method of rallying the home front with images of horrors
committed on innocents, or throw up their hands and accept defeat.
God help
the innocent.
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