Syria: Who
Controls America's Foreign Policy?
The republicans in congress don't agree with whatever
President Obama says or does on all domestic and foreign-policy issues.
However, they do agree when it comes to the Middle East. This makes you wonder:
what supreme power exists that can force both parties to tow the same line. It
certainly is not the national interest. There is hardly any national interest
involved there. What is in the Middle East than can force both parties to
agree? The answer is Israel and its Jewish lobby.
If Assad did attack his own people with nerve gas and
committed a crime against humanity, it is the United Nation's job to discipline
him and teach other dictators like him a lesson about such crimes. It is not
our job; we have our problems to content with. We should be ready to support
whatever the United Nations does. We already know that Russia and possibly
China are opposed to military intervention in Syria and have their own reasons
for their positions. If that is what the United Nations decides, so be it.
They, as well as the other nations of the world, will have to live with the consequences.
Our problem is that Israel and its surrogates are pushing
the United States to attack Syria. With their tight control over the congress
and the president, America is being pushed relentlessly to attack Syria. The
Israelis apparently manufactured intelligence about the gas attack in Syria
that the US is relying upon. This is a scary reminder of what happened just
before the war in Iraq concerning weapons of mass destruction that did not
exist. We are still recovering from the results of that unnecessary war.
The only beneficiary of an attack on Syria will be the
Israelis who will have succeeded in destroying another Arab/Moslem country and
eliminated one threat to their security and economic well-being. America will
pay the price in many ways including further loss of standing with the 1.2
billion Arabs and Moslems. It will further alienate the rest of the world and
accelerate the downward slide in America's world position both economically and
otherwise.
The protagonists of attacking Syria believe that in addition
to destroying the military potential of one of Israel's enemies, the attack on
Syria might also inhibit Iran, in the future, from attacking Israel. The voices
of Israel and its supporters in the United States, including AIPAC (American
Israel Public Affairs Committee), are being intentionally muted in the media
these days to avoid drawing public attention to their pivotal role in promoting
the march to war.
Claiming that any military attack by the United States on
Syria is based on moral grounds cannot be supported. The United States, and the
West in general, have less than an exemplary record when it comes to crimes
against humanity: Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America supported Saddam
Hussein's gassing of the Kurds and Iranians. We did not intervene during the
Rwandan genocide. The bodies buried on the American moral high ground are
beyond numbers. Let us be real and not fool ourselves into doing something we are
sure to regret.
