Kucinich: The Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria

[Purveyor]

The administration's response to the conjunction of this weekend's People's Climate March and the International Day of Peace?

1) Bomb Syria the following day, to wrest control of the oil from ISIS which gained its foothold directly in the region through the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Jordan funding and arming ISIS' predecessors in Syria.

2) Send the president to UN General Assembly, where he will inevitably give a rousing speech about climate and peace, while the destruction of the environment and the shattering of world peace is on full display 5,000 miles away.

Nothing better illustrates the bankruptcy of the Obama administration's foreign policy than funding groups that turn on the U.S. again and again, a neo-con fueled cycle of profits for war makers and destruction of ever-shifting "enemies."

The fact can't be refuted: ISIS was born of Western intervention in Iraq and covert action in Syria.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-j-kucinich/syria-isis-war_b_5869964.html?1411508436

[Feral Child]

1. Very good article.

I've been saying much the same for several days now.

Once again we're engaged in converting moderate Muslims (those survivors who lose relatives and friends to "collateral damage&quot to extremists and supporters of extremism. At ruinous costs.

It would be lots cheaper to just hand out benjamins to anyone near the gates of our embassies by a Marine wearing a nametag reading "Kick Me" or "We're all Douches".

[Scuba]

2. Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~Albert Einstein

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Except that these guys AREN'T expecting different results.

They were quite happy with the money they made and the civil rights they stole that last time around and they're back for more.

[KurtNYC]

6. +1 'Doing the same thing, giving different reasons and expecting the same result'

[BrotherIvan]

3. SOP: Say one thing, do the opposite

It's just so tiring.

[rhett o rick]

5. k&r. Thanks for posting. nm

[marble falls]

7. Dennis got his facts down on the middle east.

[flamingdem]

8. So do nothing?

Easy for him to say.

[eridani]

9. If doing something is the cause of the basic problem, why not just quit?

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/26069-focus-the-real-reason-we-are-bombing-syria

What a coincidence for war-profiteering neo-cons and the war industry, which has seen its stock rise since last week's congressional vote to fund the rapid expansion of war. We have met the enemy and he isn't only ISIS, he is us.

Phase two of the war against Syria is the introduction of 5,000 "moderate" mercenaries (as opposed to immoderate ones), who were trained in Saudi Arabia, the hotbed of Wahhabism, at an initial installment cost of $15 billion. These new "moderates" will replace the old "moderates," who became ISIS, just in time for Halloween.

The administration, in the belief that you can buy, rent, or lease friends where they otherwise do not exist, labor under the vain assumption that our newfound comrades-in-arms will remain in place during their three-year employment period, ignoring the inevitability that those "friends" you hire today could be firing at you tomorrow.

One wonders if Saudi training of these moderate mercenaries will include methods of beheading which were popularized by the Saudi government long before their ISIS progeny took up the grisly practice.

The U.S. is being played.

Qatar and Saudi Arabia can now overtly join with the U.S. in striking Syria, after they have been covertly attempting for years to take down the last secular state in the region. We are now advancing the agenda of the actual Islamic States -- Saudi Arabia and Qatar -- to fight the ersatz Islamic State of ISIS.

Now U.S. bombs and missiles might inadvertently "make the world safe" for theocracy rather than democracy. Today we read reports that Israel has shot down a Syrian warplane, indicating the terrible possibility of a wider regional conflict.

What does this have to do with the security of the 50 States United? Nothing!

[yurbud]

11. Saudi has funded most of the Sunni terrorist groups we fight

which either means our government is retarded, afraid of the Saudis, or the Saudis are doing our government a favor by sending useful idiots to be our targets in the places we want to attack.

[roamer65]

10. O-I-L.

Operation Iraqi Liberation.