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Poodle Trump Runs With Dogs of War Posted: Friday, April 7, 2017 What's really behind America's rush to war in Syria? Regarding the attack in Idlib, what we can say with certainty is that a time when pro-government forces in Syria were in the ascendancy on the ground, and when the Syrian government was making significant progress on the diplomatic front, it would have constituted an act of ineffable self-harm to launch a chemical weapons attack of any kind, much less one of this magnitude. In fact it would have conformed to the actions of a government that was intent on bringing about its own demise. What also must be taken into consideration is the fact that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an organization supported by the US, confirmed back in June 2014 that the process to destroy Syria’s entire stock of chemical weapons had been completed. Poodle Trump Runs With Dogs of War So the brash, big-mouth tycoon in the White House with an outsized ego has finally unleashed the dogs of war in Syria. Trump's Attack on Syria Killed Four Children, State News Agency Claims Nine civilians, including four children, were killed in the United States missile attack on a military airbase in Homs province in the early hours of Friday morning, the Syrian state news agency has said. Trump Has Surrendered - Will Putin Be The Next? We're Asking the Wrong Questions About Syria The two most obvious questions are who did this, and why? The US government (and unfortunately most American media, acting as stenographers rather than journalists as is too often the case in matters of war and foreign policy) have settled on the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as the culprit. That claim seems very questionable, if for no other reason than that there's no plausible "why" attached to it. Did Assad use chemical weapons on Khan Shaikhoun to score an own goal in the international arena? Correspondents in Beirut, Amsterdam, Ankara, Istanbul, Brussels, Geneva, Holland, Washington and the United Nations wrote the Reuters article. Most of them have never been to Syria in the last few years and their source is "rebels" in al-Qaeda held territory and "information" from other social media accounts. But this is not the only influential media source that writes about Syria and has clearly never been to the country at any time during the last 6 years: the Washington post also does the same. The UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (and a UK diplomat) doesn't share the media "insightful information". NYT Retreats on 2013 Syria-Sarin Claims Even as The New York Times leads the charge against the Syrian government for this week's alleged chemical attack, it is quietly retreating on its earlier certainty about the 2013 Syria-sarin case, reports Robert Parry. Trump launches attack on Syria with 59 Tomahawk missiles Syria: New U.S. Air Support On Request Scheme For Al-Qaeda On this day one hundred years ago the U.S. joined World War I. Last night the U.S. attacked a Syrian government airport in an openly hostile and intentional manner. The strike established a mechanism by which al-Qaeda can "request" U.S. airstrikes on Syrian government targets. Syria Slams US Aggression After Overnight Attacks Syrian Officials Deny Launching Gas Attack Russia Cuts Military Communications With US Over Syria Attack Russia Deploys Warship to Naval Base Near US Ships UN council weighs compromise on Syria nerve gas probe Two days after alleged government bombing that killed scores, including 27 children, western diplomats demand full investigation Is Trump Going to Commit the Next Great American Catastrophe in Syria? It would be foolhardy to take military action before we know the details of the recent horrific gas attack. |
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