COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN SPUTNIK
“US' Airstrike in
Syria: Trump 'Needs a Swift Victory to Resolve' Domestic Issues”
I just do not believe Trump is effectively in charge. The
only other explanation for this bozo attack is that Trump is mentally unbalanced,
changing his policy daily in response to passing whims, but I do not believe
that to be the case, despite his tendency to behave clownishly at times.
He's been reduced to the same figurehead status as Obama,
signing off on official papers to order things pretty much decided by others,
others not elected to anything but enjoying immense power and privilege. Of
course, all the contrived but ceaseless attacks he has endured since being
elected and the important staff he has had to let go signaled exactly the same
fact.
Even if there were a question of Assad’s forces being
responsible – which for many strong reasons cannot be not right – wouldn’t it
be necessary to at least check out some details before attacking people with
fleets of missiles?
Of course, it would, but that logic seems not to apply to
the American empire, just as the logic does not apply of asking by what authority
America can attack anyone who has not first attacked it. This is the act of a
global bully, not a nation of rules.
And we have an additional technical fact to consider from
Russian military sources which say missile strikes of this size and kind require
preparation time pre-dating the ostensible excuse for the strike, the gas
attack at Idlib.
Figureheads or not, Obama and Trump were and are legal,
elected authorities, and I certainly hold them completely responsible for the
deaths and destruction their military and CIA have produced.
It does seem, with each passing year, that John Kennedy,
despite his overall meager political achievements, stands taller as the last
president to resist these dark forces and exert his Constitutional right as
elected leader, but, of course, for that he paid a very great price.
It seems to have escaped the attention of any press in the West
that this was an unwarranted attack on a sovereign country, in effect, a war
crime.
Of course, it had long escaped the attention of the press in
the West that Obama's over 300,000 killed, millions made into refugees, and
destruction of a beautiful country were great war crimes. We have only empty
sentimentality over his boyish smile and earnest pretense of liberality.
Thinking people know you cannot have liberality and mass murder co-habiting.
We’ll, of course, not hear anything from the UN, supposedly
founded to oppose such ugliness, because the UN has been reduced over recent
years to a hollow shell of itself by American manipulations and threats, even
the resort to reneging on its treaty obligations to pay dues until it got what
it wanted.
The shabby false-flag business of chemical weapons being used
by Assad is just a tiresome repeat of something attempted a number of times,
going back to Obama in 2012. What a low place for a great country to be brought
down to: supplying thugs with poisons, allowing them to kill innocents, and
using it as an excuse for still more killing and destruction.
But that is exactly the logic of today’s American empire,
married as it is to creating a Middle East acceptable to the ugly demands of
its brutal colony, Israel. The whole effort so far has cost at least two
million lives and created enough refugees to destabilize Europe. What a proud
achievement it has been.
Oh, yes, Nikki Haley, we’ll remember when you undoubtedly
blubber again in the Un to defend this behavior, America is certainly “the
moral conscience” for the world.
