09.10.2016 Author: Jim Dean
Syria: American
Un-exceptionalism Laid Bare
Column: Society
Region: Middle East
Country: Syria
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified,
is not a crime.”
― Ernest
Hemingway,
Like the
terrorist that sends an anonymous threat, the US current psyop against the
Syrian anti-terrorism campaign has utilized anonymous sources to report that
Washington is considering “limited” attacks on Syrian and Russian forces to
encourage them to break off their driving the Western backed terrorists out of
Aleppo. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Because such
attacks would be an illegal without a UN resolution, something impossible with
Russian and Chinese vetoes, that speed bump would be overcome by using “covert”
airstrikes. A quick VeteransToday survey of retired Intel pros showed a
consensus that this was one of the dumbest ideas by a US government since the
Bush(43) gangsters went into Iraq to get Saddam’s nukes and chemical weapons,
which he did not have.
The Pentagon-CIA
pitch was that such strikes would drive Assad to the negotiation table. We call
this the language of lunatics, who want to start a war because they feel
impervious to being labeled the wanton aggressor. They are lunatic
supremacists, a term I just invented.
We have been
watching the war of words built up to these overt threats over the past two
weeks. The US ended all pretense of seeking a Syrian war resolution by
announcing it would discontinue joint efforts with Russia in Geneva. To
embarrass the country even more, US officials once again attempted to blame the
failure on Russia by claiming it was violating the ceasefire with its bombing
missions to support ending the terror siege in East Aleppo.
These officials
ignored the simple fact that the ceasefire expired after the first week, so the
Syrian coalition could not have broken it by acts taken afterwards. I would not
have used the harsh term un-exceptionalism if the ceasefire had simply failed.
It did not. It was strangled by those that wanted to kill it – by the Jihadis,
their Gulf State supporters, the Pentagon, and how much by Obama and Kerry we
can’t be sure at this point.
When Obama did
not ask for someone’s head from the Pentagon for the Deir Ezzor bombing of the
Syrian troops there, he effectively put his seal of approval on the act, adding
anotherunexceptional stain to his record. He allowed his administration to instantly
blame the Syrian coalition for the nighttime attack on the aid convoy on the
testimony only of the pro-insurgent White Hat relief group, when his own
Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff told Congress that he had no evidence of
Russian involvement.
General Dunford
lied by omission because he knew that the Syrian Airforce was not equipped for
night strikes, and that, with the US total battlefield surveillance, he knew
exactly where every Russian plane flew, and would have shared the radar plot of
alleged Russian involvement, which he did not. That again was very
unexceptional.
John Kerry did
not miss getting on this bandwagon either. He made the mistake of having a
frank talk with an insurgent group on the sidelines of the UN conference in New
York, where it was taped.
“We don’t have a
basis (to intervene), our lawyers tell us, unless we have a UN Security Council
Resolution which the Russians can veto or unless we are under attack
from folks or unless we are invited in. Russia is invited in by the
legitimate regime,” said Kerry. Oops!
That was followed
my screams from Western media that Assad was guilty of war crimes for doing the
same kind of decapitation precision strikes inside the city to “degrade” the
jihadi command structure that the US has claimed it was doing. Obama’s own
spokespeople joined in the invective language piled onto Syria and Russia,
including the UN’s Samantha Power. That
was very unexceptional.
State Department
scamsters had invented their own legal cover, that the reported attacks by
Syria on the civilians in East Aleppo invalidated Assad’s legitimacy under
international law doctrine known as the “right to protect”. The problem with
that is the accused Syrian regime is a member in good standing with the UN, and
no move has been made to change that. What has happened is the US has attacked
and killed countless Syrians via its proxy terror war, thus making it guilty of
breaking its own standards, or lack thereof.
When the subject
of reparations comes up when the Syrian War is over, we will not need Mr. Kerry
as a witness, because we already have the Nuremberg precedent for “waging an
offensive war”. And we have the statutes world over for “aiding and abetting”
terrorism that are the golden keys to making a case for rebuilding Syria paid
for by those who are guilty of destroying it.
The governments
will hide behind their sovereign immunity. Their outside contractors that do
the dirty work will close their front corporations down, leaving them empty for
anyone looking for money later on. But NGOs, many of them up to their eyeballs
in supporting terrorism, do not have that golden parachute to protect them, or
enough money worth going after, so they are safe in that regard.
Where pocketbooks
cannot be made to suffer for endless crimes committed in Syria, then
reputations certainly can. The US has been wrecking its own. The CIA could not
carry the total logistics support load for the Syrian jihadis, so the military
was the only place to turn to for training. The Blackwater-type companies have
been very busy throughout Obama’s term, handling the War “of” Terror.
The Pentagon’s
reputation took another big hit this week when the Bureau of Investigative
Journalism presented its well-documented investigative report on a massive
disinformation campaign upon the world public, including here in the US. It is
against US law for the government to propagandize its own people, a law that
has been routinely ignored using thinly veiled legal ruses, like hiring a
foreign contractor to do the work. The Bureau found the UK firm, Bell
Pottinger, got $660 million in contracts from 2006 to 2011.
That huge amount
has a strong whiff of a CIA front operation, where much of that money went to
fund all kinds of other operations, easily done when they are classified at the
time. While our children were being taught the fairy tale of the American
democratic model of “government by the people and for the people”, we had their
parents’ taxes going to fund just the opposite, a total control and
manipulation system that one would expect from an occupying army after having
lost a war.
This
unexceptional behavior may have started under Bush (43), but it was carried on
in its shape-shifting forms with Obama, as Ash Carter and John Brennan were
carry overs from Bush.
Where the Syria
war will go from here is anyone’s guess. We have seen the all too familiar
demonization campaigns against both Syria and Russia being rolled out — the
kind historically used to justify military interventions.
I can’t see Obama
doing something like this on the eve of a presidential election. But I can see
him setting Hillary up, hoping that not only will she win, but that the current
hawks in the Pentagon will be more than willing to head up more aggressive US
involvement.
There is not much
to save in Aleppo. The city is basically destroyed, Erdogan’s hoodlums having
looted all the factories early on, moving them lock, stock and barrel to the
new Turkish proprietors, supporters of his own party.
As the US failure
in Ukraine becomes more evident, Washington could become desperate for a “save
the world“ diversion. We are getting intel reports of a wave of terror being
planned for Europe, a Gladio tool useful to those who see the devolution of the
EU on the horizon. Hungary is already talking about an East European sub-union
within the EU.
No one will say
it, but the Jim Dean concept of “Redo the EU” is slowly easing itself unto the
table. As Britain and the EU hammer out their divorce settlement, I predict the
demands to reform the EU will keep growing.
The talk of its
just going away is just silly. The EU will go through some kind of a
transformation. That could be a destructive process, but certainly not its
intent. Europe does not want to go through a three or four year property
distribution settlement with the Brits, only to have a couple more countries
lined up for their turn at the exit.
Chaos theory has
been let loose upon us, the modern Frankenstein of our time. As to the chances
of a peaceful resolution for all of these conflicts, I would not bet a dime.
John Donne the poet knew about this when he wrote, “Do not ask for whom the
bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”
Jim W.
Dean, managing editor for Veterans Today, producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta,
specially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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