War

The claim that the Syrian government used chemical weapons comes from the rebels who want the US and NATO to intervene on their side.

"Christiane Amanpour, the chief international correspondent for CNN, said that sources have told her that physicians working with the Free Syrian Army obtained blood samples from chemical warfare victims and provided them to US intelligence along with soil samples collected from the earth."

No conflict of interest here.

More.

"Now, however, we have a new accusation leveled not only by the rebels and their American amen corner, but also by the British and Israeli governments: in answer to an inquiry from Senator John “Boots On the Ground” McCain, the administration accuses the Syrian regime of using sarin gas “on a small scale,” an assessment they make “with varying degrees of confidence.”"

All this at the same time makes it seem staged.

Former CIA big-wig explains why terrorists hate us and is attacked for it.

"Well, when asked by the host of a FOX News show about what might motivate Muslims from the Middle East to harm Americans, the man the CIA put in charge of the "bin Laden unit" said, "People don’t like being invaded or bombed," and they sometimes retaliate. This of course is perfectly reasonable and understandable. It’s called "blowback." He reminded the FOX host that Muslims have long protested the American military presence in the Muslim country of Saudi Arabia; the invasion and occupation of Iraq; the killing of thousands of Iraqi civilians; the statement by U.N. Ambasador Albright that a half million dead Iraqi children was "a price we are willing to pay" to achieve our political objectives; the U.S. government’s support for the government of Israel in its wars against Muslims; and the bombing and killing of civilians in numerous other Muslim countries, most recently in Mali and Libya under the Obama regime.
"We are trying to impose democracy . . . and parliamentary government . .. on a people who don’t want it," said Sheuer."

It's pretty simple to understand.

"What really set Limbaugh off was Michael Scheuer’s mockery of the standard neocon line that "they hate us because of our freedoms." Muslims are not motivated to harm Americans because "you and I can have a beer after work," Sheuer said to the FOX host. He called this theory "insane," and he was right."

I can't believe they let this guy on TV. He'll probably never get invited back onto TV. Here he is on Colbert.

"With the onset of war, said Bourne, "the patriot loses all sense of the distinction between state, nation, and government" and "the individual becomes almost identical with his society." This of course is what the Limbaughs of the world want when they falsely accuse people like Michael Sheuer of saying "America" is at fault for terrorist attacks.
With war, "minority opinion" becomes "a case for outlawry," and at times "the minorities are either intimidated into silence, or brought around slowly by a subtle process of persuasion . . . " That again is the job of the squawking chickenhawks. They are in reality a part of "the whole terrific force of the state" which is "brought to bear against heretics," a.k.a., the proponents of peace and prosperity as opposed to war and impoverishment of the masses."

This is a good essay.