Stupid Like A Fox

    When it was first announced that the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war would mandate a military response by the U.S., I immediately knew it was a virtual guarantee that chemical weapons would be used. As expected, in the reports offered by the unquestioned, unquestioning media arm of government the facts are murky, the perpetrators can’t be definitively identified, and reflexively the crime is charged to a predetermined enemy who has been carefully and progressively demonized.

  Why if your military situation is so perilous would you resort to a tactic and weapon that would bring other more powerful, relatively invulnerable combatants on to the field against you? You wouldn’t.

    If I accept the reports on the use of chemical weapons, I still must ask myself who would be the greatest beneficiary of their use.  How would the brutal deaths of civilians benefit the regime? How will it enhance its tactical position or win the support of the people. It won’t.

    But what does it do? It is an outright request to be bombed into oblivion. It is sawing the rope suspending the Sword of Damocles.

    And we Americans have been prepared to be righteously upset over the crossing of the “red line” that we drew on the situation. We’ve been conditioned to demand military action from our ‘reluctant’ government. What other strategic or diplomatic purpose does a publically announced “red line” serve than to preposition a justification for war?

    And what could possibly be the attraction of another conflict for a nation awash in debt, whose vast military is so stretched by necessities of empire that it is unable to protect the homeland without the establishment of a secondary military arm, Homeland Security? Well, Iraq is effectively a colony, Libya has been brought around to ‘right thinking’, Egypt has been neutralized by turmoil, Syria is about to experience regime change, and the dictators of Saudi Arabia are the money-addicted sluts of big petroleum. Iran is increasingly surrounded and isolated. And Israel can now steal all of Palestine with impunity. Oh how accidentally wonderful. On this grand chessboard, in a stealth crusade waged by a stealth empire, God  gets what he supposedly wants, and we get control of the oil. American know-how at its best.

   Yes, it was guaranteed chemical weapons would be used – and it doesn’t really matter who actually deployed them. It’s all good for the empire.