The United States government has been at war for eleven years. The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting that had been kept in check by the secular Saddam Hussein government. On any given day in \u201cliberated\u201d Iraq, the death toll is as high as during the height of the US attempted occupation.<\/p>\n
In Afghanistan eleven years of US attempted occupation has had no more success than a decade of Soviet occupation. The Afghans are still not worn down despite more than two decades of war with the two superpowers. Like the Soviets, the Americans have managed to kill many women, children, and village elders, but precious few warriors. In place of the Soviet puppet government there is Washington\u2019s puppet government. That is the only change, and Washington\u2019s puppet is no more secure than the Soviet one was.<\/p>\n
In Libya, Washington used its corrupt NATO puppets and CIA-recruited bandits to overthrow another stable government, that of Muammar Gaddafi, leaving Libya mired in sectarian violence. A stable prosperous country has simply been destroyed by western governments that profess human rights values and condemn China and Russia for not having any.<\/p>\n
Washington has also been killing civilians with drones and air strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, two countries with which Washington is not at war but has purchased the governments, paying the Pakistani and Yemeni governments for the right to murder their citizens and destabilizing both countries in the process.<\/p>\n
And now in Syria Washington is at work destroying another stable secular government headed by a British trained eye doctor.<\/p>\n
Washington\u2019s eleven years of illegal aggression against Muslim countries\u2013war crimes according to the Nuremberg trials of Nazis\u2013have resulted in civilian deaths far in excess of military casualties and in a domestic American police state that has destroyed the rule of law and the constitutional protections of US citizens. Washington and its presstitutes have emphasized that these costs are necessary to save Americans from al-Qaeda terrorists, none of whom have ever been apprehended in the United States.<\/p>\n
Having listened to the propaganda line pumped out by Washington and its Ministry of Propaganda for eleven years, imagine my astonishment when I saw two juxtaposed headlines: \u201cAl-Nusra pledges allegiance to al-Qaeda\u201d (BBC) and \u201cMove to Widen Help for Syrian Rebels Gains Speed in West\u201d (NY Times). Al-Nusra is the main military component of the \u201cSyrian rebels,\u201d and it has allied itself with our mortal enemy\u2013Osama bin Laden\u2019s al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n
Wait a minute! Our government told us for eleven years that we blew trillions of dollars on wars to protect Americans from al-Qaeda, endangering Social Security, Medicare, the social safety net, the dollar\u2019s exchange value, the credit rating of the US Treasury, and our civil liberties in order to save America from al-Qaeda terrorists. So why is Washington now supporting al-Qaeda\u2019s overthrow of the secular, non-Islamist government in Syria which has never ever done anything whatsoever to Americans!?<\/p>\n
The New York Times presstitutes, Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler, elevated the terrorist al-Qaeda organization to the status of \u201cthe Syrian opposition.\u201d At a lunch meeting hosted by Washington\u2019s puppet, British Foreign Secretary William Hague, and US Secretary of State John Kerry, \u201cthe Syrian opposition,\u201d aka al-Qaeda, requested antiaircraft and antitank weapons. A senior Washington official said: \u201cOur assistance has been on an upward trajectory, and the president (Obama) has directed his national security team to identify additional measures so that we can increase assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n
US Secretary of State John Kerry announced a $123 million \u201cdefense aid package\u201d to \u201cthe Syrian opposition\u201d that now includes al-Qaeda. Washington had already sent $117 million in \u201cfood and medical supplies\u201d to \u201cthe Syrian opposition,\u201d and ordered its Middle Eastern puppets to send arms. Note the Orwellian language: support for an outside terrorist force seeking to destroy a government and a people is called a \u201cdefense aid package.\u201d<\/p>\n
On April 11 the establishment French newspaper, Le Monde, reported that the al-Nosra organization affiliated with al-Qaeda is the dominant force in \u201cthe Syrian opposition,\u201d not democratic revolutionaries. Despite this fact, Washington\u2019s puppets, France and Britain, are pushing the European Union to send arms to the al-Qaeda affiliated \u201cSyrian opposition.\u201d And Senator John McCain wants US airstrikes on Syrian government forces with whom the US is not at war, in order to provide air cover for al-Qaeda\u2019s takeover of Syria.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Islamist Shiites, whom the Americans left in control of Iraq, have announced that they have joined the battle against the American-supported al-Qaeda forces seeking to radicalize Syria.<\/p>\n
So far at last count, the UN reports that the military attack on Syria organized by Washington\u2019s proxies has killed 70,000 people. But americans are preoccupied with the Boson Marathon bombing, which killed 3.<\/p>\n
Once again \u201cthe indispensable people\u201d are bringing death and destruction to an entire country in order to bring to the dead \u201cfreedom and democracy.\u201d No Syrian asked for this \u201cliberation\u201d from his life.<\/p>\n
Be a Proud American. We are doing our duty to our rightful hegemony over the world and to Israel, which has purchased our government. It is our right to be the hegemonic power on the planet earth, and that includes the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore it is Washington\u2019s right to overthrow Syria in order to get rid of the Russian naval base there. The Romans would never have put up with a foreign power having a naval base in the Mediterranean, and we can do no less, unless we are some kind of pansy state afraid of our own shadow. The Mediterranean was mare nostrum\u2013our sea\u2013for the Romans. Now it is our sea, and by god we are going to claim it by overthrowing Syria.<\/p>\n
Israel, of course, was given the rights to \u201cGreater Israel\u201d by God himself\u2013who am I to question the Christian Zionist preachers who are growing fat on Israeli money\u2013and part of \u201cGreater Israel\u201d is the river in southern Lebanon that supplies precious water.<\/p>\n
Hizbollah, provisioned by Syria and Iran has prevented Israel from confiscating southern Lebanon in order to acquire the water rights that God gave them. Therefore, to fulfill our obligations as Israel\u2019s puppet, we are required to destroy both Syria and Iran so that Hizbollah is isolated and out of the way and \u201cGreater Israel\u201d can be created.<\/p>\n
The Christian Zionist churches in the US repeat this message every Sunday. If you don\u2019t believe it, you are some kind of anti-american anti-semite and should be exterminated. Or you could be a despicable Muslim terrorist to be waterboarded into confession. Homeland Security will make short work of you just like they did to those Russian Muslim terrorists in Boston who tried to blow up the Marathon race.<\/p>\n
I mean, really, how can we indispensable people bring freedom and democracy to the world if the Russians have a naval base in our sea? How can we project strength if we project such weakness by permitting a foreign power\u2019s presence in our exclusive sphere of influence many thousands of miles away from our borders. Don\u2019t forget, America\u2019s borders are the world\u2019s borders. It says so in our song\u2013\u201dFrom sea to shining sea.\u201d Don\u2019t forget it.<\/p>\n
Of course, we don\u2019t want to go head-to-head with another well armed nuclear military power, but the way around that is to demonize the Syrian government and Russia for supporting an eye doctor who is \u201ca brutal dictator\u201d who is resisting an Islamist al-Qaeda takeover of Syria financed by Washington. Our masters in Washington can use the UN and all our well-paid puppet states to pressure the Russians to shut up and get out of our way. I mean, really, does Putin want all those Russian NGOs that we finance to bring their operatives out onto the streets in Moscow and bring down his government? I mean, really, who does Putin think he is standing up to our god-given hegemony over the world, much less Israel\u2019s god-given hegemony over the Middle East? I mean, Putin is in for it, and so are those goddamn Chinese. I mean, really, who do they think they are? Americans? Don\u2019t those Chinks know about our control of the Pacific? I mean, really, are they out to lunch?<\/p>\n
And, I mean, really, how can all us get to heaven if we don\u2019t do God\u2019s will and deliver the Middle East to Israel as Israel says the scriptures require. I mean, really, do you want to oppose God and burn in hell? Instead of all those virgins Muslims promise you, you will be devoured by fire. You better get on the right side before you die.<\/p>\n
I mean, really, who wants this fate. We had better get rid of Syria sooner than ordered.
\nIf we don\u2019t do what Israel tells us God requires, we are finished. That\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n
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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West<\/a> is now available. <\/i><\/p>\n