Sunday, September 07, 2014

War

Pharaoh Obama will send his private army against ISIS.
"Obama said he has the “authority he needs” to increase attacks on Islamic State targets without congressional approval. But he did not answer repeated questions about whether he will order air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria."
Did he answer repeated questions about where he gets that authority. ISIS was kicked out of al Qaeda, therefore it's not covered by the post-9/11 war authorization.

For many reasons, we shouldn't bomb ISIS.
"Speaking as an old Mideast hand and veteran war correspondent, I say no plan is a good plan. Washington has made such an awful mess of its foreign policy that inaction is an increasingly attractive option.  More little wars will mean the US falling into the trap set by Osama bin Laden."
Every intervention makes things worse, but each new opportunity our rulers claim they'll get it right.
"Obama’s decision to send tiny US military forces to Ukraine and Iraq violates the basic laws of war: strike swiftly with maximum concentrated force. More worrying, expanded US naval patrols in the Black Sea are a dangerous provocation. Imagine if Russian naval units sailed into Lake Ontario?"
Stay out of Ukraine too.

Air strikes are not very accurate.
"Syria launched a series of airstrikes targeting a stronghold of the Islamic State extremist group on Saturday, killing at least 25 people, most of whom died when one of the missiles slammed into a crowded bakery, activists said.
The eight airstrikes smashed parts of buildings, set cars alight and crushed people under rubble in the northeastern city of Raqqa, which is ruled by the extremist group, according to a video of the aftermath uploaded to social media networks.
At least 16 civilians were killed, alongside nine Islamic State fighters, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights."
A crowded bakery.

Intelligence people unhappy with NATO expansion.

This is what the US foreign policy of war and aggression has produced.
"All of this U.S. and Nato Super BS they are throwing at Russia have forced Russia and China and all their allies and all nations who love freedom from global, imperial slavery to rapidly build up their military forces from Super Ops to intercontinental nuclear missiles. That 2,000,000,000 anti-American enraged  now join the 1,500,000, 000 Muslims enraged at the U.S. and 500,000,000 enraged Latin Americans from Mexico to Argentina and more land more Europeans secretly loathing the U.S. insanity that is pushing them into WWIV."
I guess by definition the global war on terror is WWIII.

The US has sponsored terrorism in the Middle East since at least 1948.

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