Whatâs
Wrong Today:
Nothing says “big cajones” like lobbing some bombs on
the people in a smaller country with a leader that the West doesn’t like and that
doesn’t have the military means to strike back directly.
Remember in
2003, there were massive marches here and in Europe against the Iraq war.
Ten years
later there are no marches. Why? In part the “left”, united against the
Iraq war, is now in large part, lined up behind NATO. It is certainly not
defending Syrians as it was ready to defend, at least via demonstrating, the
Iraqi people.
What makes the current situation more
puzzling is that the lessons of Iraq clearly indicated that the anti-war side was 100% right.
The US and the pro-US governments in Europe were lying about WMD. The
casualties were horrendous, amounting to hundreds of thousands dead, wounded
and driven into refugee status. The net result was chaos, a continuing and bloody civil
strife, disease, poverty and waste.
The Coalition of the Willing led to the Four
Horsemen.
In the
past decade, the global economy has collapsed. It may collapse again; living
standards are falling everywhere. By any rational accounting, the governments
of Obama, Cameron and Hollande should be slouching towards political oblivion.
Instead they propose, even as they do nothing to spur employment while they cut unemployment benefits and pensions,
to splurge more billions on more killings, this time of Syrian civilians.
Everyone knows what is going on here: Kerry reprises Powell,
Rice reprises Rice and Obama reprises George 47.
We just canât get enough of it. And in National News: Miley
Cyrus?
“Conquest
after conquest, deeper and deeper into molasses…Flies conquer the flypaper. Flies
capture two hundred miles of new flypaper.” (Lt. Tonder in The
Moon is Down) – John Steinbeck
