6.
Saudi Arabia
7.
Qatar
8.
Lebanon
9.
Sudan (North and South)
10.
Libya
This list came from the top of my head (or wherever thoughts
come from). I'm sure that there are many more countries that kill their own
people on a regular basis.
So why is Syria so important? It isn't. It's important to
our government and our military, but it isn't important to anyone else (unless
you emigrated from there). Its military
importance is that it is on the Mediterranean Coast and it borders on Iran. It
has a Russian naval port.
It supports Hezbollah and Iran. It has about two million
Iraqi refugees (from that other war of ours). It has a secular government. It
doesn't kowtow to the U.S. and NATO (except for helping us carry out extraordinary rendition
(It's OK to torture people when you do it for America).
In fact, it's OK for America to do anything. We can bomb
people, assassinate people and put embargoes on nations (an act of war). We can do anything we please, anywhere and at any
time. We are a nation of exceptional
people. The only reason that other nations despise us is because they hate us
for our freedom (We are doing our very best to solve this problem by
eliminating as many freedoms as we possibly can).
The next time you watch the corporate media report on the
Syrian governments atrocities, ask yourself some questions. One question to ask
is how did these "rebels" get all of the weapons you see in the videos? Why do
the "rebels" carry shiny new M-4's and M-16's? How did these weapons get in the
hands of the "rebels" so fast? Who speaks for the rebel opposition? Why does
the U.S. care so much for the Syrian people now, when last year we despised
them?
Why does Russia and China oppose a UN mandate to end the
fighting by military force? Maybe because Russia and China abstained on UN
Resolution 1973 (the authorization of military force in Libya) and NATO used
this mandate to bomb Libya back to the Stone Age. I don't blame them for
thinking twice this time.
I know I'm asking you to ask a lot of questions, but there
is much at stake here. The future of civilization is something we should take
seriously. You can put "Dancing with the Stars" on your DVR. This is more
important.
Our government is totally out of control. Nobody "hates us
for our freedom". In fact, no one particularly cares about our freedom or
anything else we have or do not have. The truth in 2012 is that America is not among
the best-loved nations on Earth. The truth is that most people hate us for
getting involved in their internal affairs. They hate us for supplying arms to
the world.
We could feed the entire world with eight days of our annual
military budget. The Pentagon spends
more on war than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare,
and safety. The situation is out of control.
The situation will remain out of control until the American people care
enough to do something about it. We can either rise up or die. That's not much
of a choice. We can only blame ourselves for letting things get this far. We
allowed this situation to deteriorate to this point. We allowed it, and we must
fix it. That is our biggest challenge. It's not Syria, Iran or any other
country. The problem is the United States.
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