The Beneficiaries of US attack on Syria will be war profiteers, political servants, media & al Queda

[kpete]

This War Too Is A Lie
By: David Swanson Saturday September 7, 2013 6:31 pm


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The beneficiaries of a U.S. attack on Syria will be war profiteers, their political servants, media outlets that gain higher ratings, and a gang increasingly dominated by al Qaeda-affiliated groups that is seeking power in Syria through the use of vicious violence that is illegal in its entirety. War makers do not have noble motives.

A U.S. war on Syria, short or long, will not be fought by armies on a battlefield. It will be fought by missiles and planes and drones in and above the neighborhoods where men, women, and children live. The human, societal, and environmental damage will be something that too many parts of the world are familiar with but the United States itself is not.

This war, like others of its sort, will not be won. Syria was not going to be the first case in which a war was based on honesty. It’s also not going to be the first place where a humanitarian war benefits humanity. It’s not going to be the first place where the U.S. military builds a stable democratic nation. It’s not going to be the first nation whose people are grateful for such an intervention. And it’s not going to involve anything that could be properly called a victory.

The deepest lie at the route root of this drive for war is perhaps the lie that a nation can prepare for war, dumping its energies and resources into every possible plan for every conceivable war, and yet manage to avoid those wars unless they are forced upon it as a “last resort.” This next dishonest, immoral, illegal, unpopular, murderous, atrocity-laden, uncontrollable, environment-destroying, rights-eroding, money-wasting war will come relentlessly, ineluctably, it will come . . . unless we compel our government to consider other possible courses of action, including that of actively working for peace through a posture of respect for others that would require a bit of truthfulness.


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[Cleita]

1. Bingo!

Don't forget the gas and oil industries too.

[NightWatcher]

2. Don't forget Saudi Arabia...you know, the guy that gave Hillary 500k of jewelry

I wonder if she thinks we should attack.

[leftstreet]

3. Curiously silent, she is

A hawk who can't endorse!

[gopiscrap]

4. Exactly

[Th1onein]

5. Thanks for posting this.

Kick!

[Catherina]

6. Excellent article. Rec'd

The debate over chemical weapons, itself, is framed by the lie that a law against chemical weapons can be enforced by one nation attacking another. In fact, Syria is not a party to the Chemical Weapons Convention. If it were, it would be subject to prosecution in court. In any event, it is subject to the judgment and action of the world and its courts, not of one vigilante representing 4% of the world. The bizarre idea that bombing a country can be a form of law enforcement dishonestly hides the fact that the action itself violates the U.N. Charter and the Kellogg Briand Pact.