Another rush to war! This time in Syria.

Larry Kummer, Editor

8 years ago

Summary: Trump appears to be preparing to expand our involvement in the Syrian war, responding to another dubious story with little evidence about a chemical weapon attack by the Syrian government. We believe what we are told, so our leaders find these wars both easy to start and useful.

“The Rush to War“

By Craig Murray at his website, 9 April 2018.

I have never ruled out the possibility that Russia is responsible for the attack in Salisbury, amongst other possibilities. But I do rule out the possibility that Assad is dropping chemical weapons in Ghouta. In this extraordinary war, where Saudi-funded jihadist head choppers have Israeli air support and US and UK military “advisers”, every time the Syrian army is about to take complete control of a major jihadist enclave, at the last moment when victory is in their grasp, the Syrian Army allegedly attacks children with chemical weapons, for no military reason at all. We have been fed this narrative again and again and again.

We then face a propaganda onslaught from neo-con politicians, think tanks and “charities” urging a great rain of Western bombs and missiles, and are accused of callousness towards suffering children if we demur. This despite the certain knowledge that Western military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have had consequences which remain to this day utterly disastrous.

I fear that the massive orchestration of Russophobia over the last two years is intended to prepare public opinion for a wider military conflict centred on the Middle East, but likely to spread, and that we are approaching that endgame. The dislocation of the political and media class from the general population is such, that the levers for people of goodwill to prevent this are, as with Iraq, extremely few as politicians quake in the face of media jingoism. These feel like extremely dangerous times.

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Trump speaks about our wars in the Middle East

Trump on 3 April 2018.

“As far as our primary mission in terms of ISIS, we’ve almost completed that task. We’ll be making a decision very quickly in coordination with others in the area as to what we’ll do. …I want to bring our troops back home. I want to start rebuilding our nation. We will have, as of three months ago, $7 trillion dollars {spent} in the Middle East over the last 17 years. We got nothing – nothing – out of it. …Think of it: seven trillion dollars over a 17 year period. We have nothing except death and destruction. …Sometimes it’s time to come back home. We’re thinking about that very seriously.”

But with Trump, what he says one week has no connection with what he does the next week.

Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2018

Other voices speak out

“No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first – verdict afterwards.”
“Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “The idea of having the sentence first!”
“Hold your tongue!” said the Queen, turning purple.
“I won’t!” said Alice.
“Off with her head!” the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.

— America goes to war, described by Lewis Carroll in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Those that question the narrative are declared outcasts, if not traitors.

WaPo: “Nerve gas used in Syria attack, leaving victims ‘foaming at the mouth,’ evidence suggests.” Deep in the article we learn that there is little real evidence.

NYT: “Trump Weighs More Robust Military Strike Against Syria.”

Press release from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons: “OPCW Will Deploy Fact-Finding Mission to Douma, Syria.” It is better than Wonderland: sentence first, evidence afterwards!

Even the Brits are skeptical: from The Times – “Theresa May told President Trump yesterday that Britain would need more evidence of a suspected chemical attack by the Assad regime before joining a military strike against Syria.”

Listen to the people who were right about the failed 9/11 wars: “Trump’s Rush to Judgment on Syria Chemical Attack” by Scott Ritter at The American Conservative — “We need hard evidence about what happened in Douma before threatening war.”

Articles by rogue journalist Caitlin Johnstone.

Tucker Carlson speaks out on Fox against war in Syria.

About the author

Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He joined the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1984. His career culminated as British Ambassador to Uzbekistan 2002 to 2004. It ended when he criticized regime as repressive and using torture (both the American and British governments freaked out). Afterwards he was Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.

In 2016 the US government refused to allow him entry to the US.

See his articles at his website. See his bio. See his Wikipedia entry –he has led an extraordinary life.

One of Murray’s book is Sikunder Burnes: Master of the Great Game. From the publisher…

“This is an astonishing true tale of espionage, journeys in disguise, secret messages, double agents, assassinations and sexual intrigue. Alexander Burnes was one of the most accomplished spies Britain ever produced and the main antagonist of the Great Game as Britain strove with Russia for control of Central Asia and the routes to the Raj.”