Obama:
"But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil. This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out ISIL wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground."
No American "boots on the ground"?? Is that what he said? What he meant to say was no boots on the ground until after the midterms. After that, the sky's the limit!
Don't kid yourself, the Obama claque is as determined to topple Assad as Bush was determined to remove Saddam. That's why Obama's public relations team decided to use the prestige of a primetime presidential speech -- with all the pompous trappings of high-office -- to make their case. It's because their real target is the American people who are being led by the nose into another hellish bloodbath.
Obama:
"American leadership is the one constant in an uncertain world. It is America that has the capacity and the will to mobilize the world against terrorists."
Oh boy. American troublemaking is the "one constant" in this world, even death and taxes take a back seat to that. America started the war on terror. (Blowback) America perpetuated the war on terror (check the globe. The US is fighting wars everywhere). And America is entirely responsible for the war on terror. (Afghanistan, Mujahedin) And now -- after 13 years of unlawful detentions, black sites, Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, death squads, waterboarding, illegal surveillance, drone attacks, and a mountain of carnage that stretches halfway to the moon -- Obama is re-launching the War on Terror under the opaque sobriquet "ISIL." Haven't we had enough of this garbage yet?
As always, the media seems entirely mystified as to the administration's real intentions. In contrast, analyst Patrick Martin at the World Socialist Web Site sees through the hoax and sums it up like this in an article titled "Obama announces open-ended war in Iraq and Syria." Here's an excerpt:
"It was only 12 months ago that Obama tried and failed to create the political conditions for US air strikes against the Assad regime, making allegations of the use of nerve gas weapons that were later discredited. Now Obama is seeking to achieve the same goal by a different route, using ISIS as a pretext to get American military forces into Syria, where they will become the spearhead of the campaign to oust Assad and install a pro-US stooge regime in Damascus."
Bingo. The ISIL canard is nothing but a pretext for war.
Write to your Senators and Congressmen: NO WAR IN SYRIA.
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