Attack on Syria Endangers U.S.

CALL CONGRESS MONDAY MORNING AND DON'T STOP UNTIL THEY VOTE DOWN THE WAR RESOLUTION.

Self evidently, attacking Syria has nothing to do with defending the U.S.

No one claims that Syria has attacked the United States or plans to attack the United States. Syria will not attack the United States, except perhaps in the case that the U.S. attacks Syria. That, in itself, should be sufficient to oppose the resolution authorizing an unprovoked war on Syria.**

After all the unpunished war crimes and acts of aggression committed by the U.S. government, resulting in millions of deaths, this government's officials have no standing or authority to play world police.

If there was an effective world police, in fact, they would be hunting down, arresting and bringing charges against dozens of former and current U.S. officials (from every U.S. administration since at least Reagan) for planning and waging wars of aggression and for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The proposed U.S. aggression in Syria is based on lies, as with all prior U.S. initiations of aggression.*

The present U.S. government claims to be responding to the gas attack that killed Syrian civilians, but there is no consensus on who is responsible for the gas attack. Rather than wait for the U.N. to complete its investigation, U.S. threats caused the U.N. chemical weapons investigators to flee Syria. Why did the U.S. do that? Does an unhindered U.N. investigation pose a threat?

Even if this is a police action, there is no cover of international law, no support in the United Nations or even in NATO.

That means the proposed U.S. intervention is, at best, a unilateral, lawless, vigilante action.

This time there is no "coalition," even less of one than with the war of aggression on Iraq.

The only candidates for such a "coalition" include

- France (the former European colonizer of Syria, which should be paying reparations for its past crimes against that country)

- Saudi Arabia (the worst regime in the world, supporting not the Syrian revolution but the worst extremist jihadists who have infiltrated into Syria)

- Israel (under the control of parties that have explicitly declared the desire to see all Arab nations smashed and balkanized)

and

- Turkey (under the control of an Islamist party facing its own popular uprising and, like all Turkish governments, interested only in the suppression of the Kurds living in Syria)

But of course it's even worse than that!

The proposed aggression invites attack on the U.S.

Where there is no threat whatsoever to the U.S., the proposed U.S. aggression creates a threat! It is a gamble with our lives.

It also creates the threat of a wider war. With Russia, Iran, France, Turkey, Saudi and the Gulf States, Hizbollah and Iraq all involved in different parts of this conflict, a U.S. attack raises the chance of a world war from zero to something greater than zero. No matter how low, that is an unacceptable risk.

There is a new Iranian president seeking peace with the U.S. Iran and the U.S., together with Russia and the EU, can negotiate a solution to end hostilities in Syria.

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Note

* Don't come at me with your examples of "Stopping Hitler" unless you care to argue that the U.S. started World War II. In 1941 the U.S. was attacked and defended itself. This has nothing to do with the constant covert and overt wars the U.S. has waged around the world ever since.

Among the covert wars but never much of a secret was of course that the U.S. armed and trained one side in the Rwandan conflict while France armed and backed the other, meaning that the civil war there was partly the result of Western intervention, contrary to the lie that the West didn't intervene. France intervened to protect those who committed the genocide. And for 20 years "Rwanda" has been used as the favored example of the humanitarian imperialists. They rely on ignorance.

** The U.S. military should exist solely for its stated function of "defense." Of course, it exists mainly to eat half of the U.S. discretionary budget in the corporate crusade against self-manufactured threats.