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Title: Slow Burn: Trump’s Syrian Attack and Endless War
Published: 2018-04-23
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMqKm0VzvRw
Title: Slow Burn: Trump’s Syrian Attack and Endless War
Published: 2018-04-23
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMqKm0VzvRw
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Jun exchange On Friday the 13th, as the bombs went off in Damascus and blow by blow accounts jammed social media, some of us thought it was the first step in the final war, a giant showdown between two thermonuclear behemoths. The Pentagon is not interested in a huge war, fought on multiple fronts in theaters. It prefers smaller, more manageable wars and endless military occupations like the one2/6
in Afghanistan. The idea is not to defeat enemies who hate us for our freedom, as George W. Bush put it, but rather keeping those enemies alive and engaged. Endless brushfire wars against a morphing array of enemies, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong-un, keep the Pentagon's system cruising along and justify its gargantuan presence and massive budget. It also grows the military industrial complex, now more accurately3/6
described as a military industrial surveillance police state complex, as the national security state has merged and centralized disparate operations. Like the never ending conflict now plugging Libya, following the destruction of that country, Syria must be made into a cauldron of endless strife and misery, as competing head-chomp perfection's struggle for power. Assad and his government, indeed the wishes of the Syrian people, stand in the way of4/6
that agenda. In Iraq following Bush's invasion, post-war conflict, often with the helping hand of military psychological operations, resulted in the creation of new enemies, most prominently the Islamic State, which was spun out of the Iraqi resistance to an open-ended U.S. occupation. It began with Al-Qaeda and Abu Zakari and shapeshifted into the Islamic State with the ample help from the Saudis and CIA. The global ruling-al-leab benefiting5/6
from endless war understand that Wahabi Islam is in near-perfect control of ICE, in addition to a producer of perpetual religious conflict. Its built-in intolerance and violent suppression of any deviation or dissent is in near-perfect control mechanism, Salon is the man at the top, our puppet's following orders. This is the fate of Syria, not stupendous al-A'war, but a slow burn that will take months, if not years6/6
to realize its goal, of reducing the country to a failed state. Broken up into antagonistic pockets of Sunnis, Shia's Kurds, and other factions endlessly fighting to gain control. As medicine the generals realized, this is a delicate balancing act. For at any moment, a mistalculation or crossed signals may result in a game over scenario. Not only for the US, Russia, and China, but the entire world.
