COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE AND VIDEO IN THE INDEPENDENT
Here’s more propaganda from The Independent, so poorly disguised you cannot vouch for the
source.
God, don't you ever get tired of pushing this stuff out?
Even if you could account for the source, this is propaganda
precisely because it has absolutely no perspective. The best propaganda always
has a tiny bit of truth, and the truth here is that, yes, such weapons are
used.
You absolutely cannot fairly take one small part of a huge
destructive war and suggest that it explains what is going on. It cannot. It
can horrify people though, and that would appear to be its purpose here because
The Independent makes no practice of
presenting such things in most situations.
I can't recall any equivalent material being used by The Independent for Israel's slaughters
in Gaza, and such material does exist. Some very brave photographers took
images of the rivers of blood and smashed children.
I don't recall such material for America's (and of course
Britain’s) proud invasion of Iraq in which such ghastly weapons as cluster
bombs and white phosphorus were used. Thousands of pictures exist of sliced-up
children and smashed women, but you never ran any.
The creepy Saudis, whom Britain implicitly supports and with
whom it explicitly does a handsome business, are, right now, killing masses of
civilians in Yemen, and they are using America's dreadful cluster bombs to tear
them apart, maiming those not killed. Where are your terrifying images?
The horror in Syria did not start by the government's
barrel-bombing places. The barrel-bombing is a response to the infiltration and
entrenchment of tens of thousands of heavily-armed terrorists trying to destroy
the country from scattered and hidden positions all over it.
They were infiltrated into Syria by the lunatic now running
Turkey. They are financed and supplied by the absolute princes of Saudi Arabia.
They were assisted, advised, and even led in some cases by the same government
of Israel which holds more than five million unwilling people as prisoners. Yet
more money came from the absolute princes of Qatar.
And the United States has also supplied and trained
elements. It clearly approves of what has been going on or it would be stopped.
We know to a certainty that nothing happens anywhere near its Middle East colony
of which it does not approve.
Britain under David Cameron, as one of America's most groveling
allies, has also done its dirty bit to help.
This entire misery could be ended if outside help and
support for thugs were ended, but that help and support, by the above-named parties,
will not stop. Because those countries want Syria destroyed just the way Iraq
was destroyed, reduced to a meaningless set of rump states with a population
left to suffer for a generation.
And they want to achieve that in the most cowardly of
fashions, giving the bloody work over to hired mercenaries and ideological
maniacs while standing off – tsk-tsking at the horrors as Cameron is wont to do
- pretending they have nothing to do with it.
I simply do not understand how anyone can think human trash
like ISIS and al-Nusra Front should prevail over a reasonable, highly-educated
man like Assad, a leader who has always protected a secular and diverse society
and who keeps the support of large parts of that society.
It is a totally absurd situation, and it can only be
explained in light of American policy. It is the policy that destroyed Iraq and
Libya and sparked in large covert operations the whole pointless and
wrongly-named Arab Spring. There was nothing spring-like in what happened.
A brief experiment with democratic government in Egypt was
smothered following Israel’s complaints about the threat it represented. Egypt was
returned to a decades-old dictatorship much to Israel’s liking. In other places,
like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, potential uprisings were violently suppressed by
absolute governments.
It was all an effort to re-mold the region to the liking of
America and its Middle East colony under a façade of popular revolt and never
mind all the inconvenience of death, destruction, and misery. The region’s authoritarian
governments were overthrown only where they disagreed with America and/or
Israel while in all other cases they were left to flourish, and the
authoritarian governments overthrown were only replaced by others. Democracy
flourishes nowhere.
Well, Mr. Putin understands that, and if the nations doing
the deadly supplying aren't going to stop, he'll destroy what they’ve supplied.
The Syrian army will do the rest.
NOTE:
Julian Assange has said that the massive influx of refugees
into Europe is, in fact, part of the American strategy to de-stabilize Syria,
and I don’t doubt that he is right. Emptying Syria of good parts of its
professionals and technicians only further weakens it.
This, of course, puts in quite a different light Ms. Merkel’s
controversial, open-arms support for unlimited refugees in Germany. She, rather
than speaking from a heart larger than we would have credited her from past
behaviors, is just once again supporting American policy, a much more familiar
stance for her.
