Syrian
Genocide Must Stop
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The American
People must NOT support bombing Syria “back into the Stone Age,” because that
has been done once, already. Two strikes
and we are out.
An estimated
2,000 to 20,000 MORE Syrians will be killed by precision-guided munitions
launched from B2 stealth bombers, B52s, and American naval assets.
The Iranians
most probably tasked their elite military unit, the Quds Force, and the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard, with preparing “False Flag” attacks in Syria, the very day
OUR President Obama issued his “red line” statement of warning to the al-Assad
Regime.
This was an
honest, tactical mistake made by OUR President, within the greater context of
an Obama foreign policy that, to date, has otherwise been solid,
in an impossible world geopolitical situation.
What if the
conflict spills over into Israel, our most important ally in the world today. Our oath to People of Israel is written in
the Blood of American Patriots: they go
down, we go down. We will fight shoulder
to shoulder with our Israel Brothers and Sisters until the fighting is done. We will not concede ANYTHING that jeopardizes
the freest of the free, the People of Israel and the people of the USA. We would ask our armed forces to defend
Israel as if it were our nation too.
This is the premise of the NATO Oath Among Member Nations. Israel is a member of NATO whether anyone
knows it or not … and should be admitted to NATO immediately, along with any
nation in the Middle East that has a true, stable democracy. If war comes, we will ask our armed forces to
battle to protect Israel, to fight until victory is achieved. To defend Israel, we will battle anyone,
anywhere, any time and, as was said in the movie Patton on the approach to
Bastogne in WWII: if that is not enough,
“let no one come back alive.” Human freedom demands this of us all, or as the
New Hampshire license plate motto says: “Live Free or Die.”
Our proud
nation and our freedoms as Americans are defended by the greatest military
organization in the history of civilization, the Armed Forces of the United
States of America. Our armed forces have
been the greatest defender of human freedom in the history of nations. To defend us, Israel, and the free nations of
the world today, the women and men of our armed forces are willing to endure
unimaginable sacrifice, as they have always done, so that we can live in
freedom, secure from the forces of oppression.
The “red
line” tactic was probably just a bad idea given OUR President by one of his
smartest advisors. This, no doubt,
happens all the time with all OUR Presidents.
We need to
lighten up on OUR guy, OUR President. He
is faced with one impossible situation after another, all day, every day. There is only one answer to his torment: play more golf… REALLY.
Everything
comes clear on the golf course, in that, it’s you against The Grass….one of
life’s supreme existential conflagrations.
That is, everything comes clear on the golf course, if you are Scottish,
like me.
In that OUR
magnificent President is not, to my knowledge, Scottish, he should always play
with Tiger, Phil, and the Secretary of State.
Only Good, clarity, purposefulness, humane judgment and decisive acts,
along with more birdies and double bogeys than you can shake a stick at – as
they say in Scotland – will come from that foursome.
OUR President
Obama has NEVER wanted to apply military force to the horrific circumstance in
Syria, because he knows it will only make a horrific situation worse.
I believe OUR
President knows that, with heavy Russian and Iranian involvement in Syria – and
until such involvement stops – the horrific crimes against the Syrian people
will not stop. We cannot make them stop
until and if they each decide it is in their respective national interest to do
so.
What if one
of our missiles kills a serving Russian military officer, who are no doubt
everywhere in Syria? The Russians would
see this as an act of assassination, would they not? That’s how WWI started. It is not
possible to know what actually happened in Syria. The situation in Syria is inherently
chaotic: like the weather, Scots people
like myself, ZZ Top Concerts, etc.
The one thing
that is certain is that Bashar al-Assad is a homicidal, genocidal monster. He should be brought to Justice by trial in The
Hague for his crimes against humanity and the people of Syria. The only way that could happen is if Seal
Team 6 did as they did in Pakistan where their first order from OUR Commander
in Chief was to capture and return for trial the target of their heroic endeavor. Under no circumstances should OUR President
order such a mission and risk this most precious asset of our military
capability.
Back to the
chaos in Syria, there has been no Chain of Custody standard applied to any
testing of anything we are hearing about in the media. Moreover, there is not one shred of proof,
under adequate Chain of Custody, of anything that would prove WHO used chemical
munitions, or when and where they were used.
My suspicion is that the Quds Force operatives from Iran are responsible
for much of what has happened in Syria. It is also probable that rebel forces
have previously captured chemical munitions that may have been used on the
Syrian people.
While
al-Assad is a monster, he and his Russian allies would be stupid to use
chemical weapons, in that such use would invite US intervention. The rebel forces that are now losing badly in
Syria, together with their Iranian Quds Force allies (yes, the Quds Force has
infiltrators on ALL sides of the Syrian civil war), have every incentive to use
chemical munitions, more likely undiluted pesticides, thanks to the “red line”
standard, again an honest mistake made by OUR President.
By the way,
all this truly is George Bush’s fault.
His success in the War against Saddam to free the people of Iraq was, in
large part, what triggered the Arab Spring, in that almost all people in the
Arab world are just like us: they yearn
to be free.
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