Secretary of State
Kerry made N.P.R headlines again Saturday night detailing paradigm plans of
attack on Syria's chemical war infrastructure. He made another bad analogy
saying that this is a Munich moment such as occurred in 1936 with the
appeasement of Hitler. President Assad of Syria doesn't seem likely to invade
any foreign countries though as Nazi Germany did. It is the United State's
President fomenting an attack on Syria spending weapons and quality military
time costing possibly billions with dollars with e-dollars made real by Fed
Chief Bernanke. With luck the U.S.A. won't experience the Reich's
hyperinflation too.
It is challenging to
find the language to describe America's traditionally ineffective, expensive
and convoluted foreign policy as it applies to Syria. Below I will try to
present the developing pattern of current policy. It is troubling that a
government that cannot balance its own budget, design full employment or
restore environmental health is the biggest fan of war. N.P.R. reported that
Secretary Kerry spoke flawless French to the French and other Euros arguing for
air attack. Very impressive-he looks French himself, yet in the language of his
non-billionaire countrymen (generally) American English arguing for
intervention he relies too much on historical clichés' using tunnel-vision
logic on the Syrian conundrum.
If the Obama
administration plans to enter the Twilight Zone in an attack on Syria consider
that Nebuchanezzar II did long ago too Kicking the Assyrians out was a Biblical
sort of political change for the region. Named for the god Nebu he trashed
Ninevah in the 7th century B.C. and the Egyptian and Assyrian armies at the
battle of Carchemish in 605 B.C.
In entering the
historical fray and lining up for a possibly eschatological swing of things the
Obama administration seems rash. Nebuchadnezzar IIhad a mission from God. It
seems unlikely that the Obama administration has a call from that source.
It seems the U.S.A.
works hard to develop worst-case investment in foreign conflict events. One
would think that neo-cons are in the Obama camp along with the Harvard economic
elite consolidating wealth. They require someone to blame first to attack
later. War on the installment plan. What that doesn't do is implement proactive
economic policy that could serving as a good example for ordinary people of the
world.
The American government
just is too narrow minded to lead in peace and prosperity in a positive social
and economic direction. Instead it too commonly relies on getting ignorant and
war for international relation problem solving. If the country targeted is not really
too dangerous to us we can attack. If the nation is too dangerous or difficult
to attack we let it go and let it develop nuclear weapons such as North Korea.
That isn't a John Wayne at Guadalcanal sort of policymaking, neither is it a 'blessed
are the peacemakers' approach. It is a blessed are the war makers for
they shall have war policy of international relations. The Sunni have much
of world oil supplies. Wall Street and Washington are drawn to that like moths
to a light in the darkness of a swamp.
Well balanced
international relations ought to start with a balanced U.S. national budget,
elimination of vast public debt, full employment, stable population, high
standard of living and a recovering ecosystem. We can take a lesson from John
Lennon by changing his lyrics a little bit to understand the administration
policy; War is the answer, you got to let it grow, you've got to let it show
so we can keep playing those war games forever, making more wars out of those
that have gone before... Shouldn't war crimes charges be filed in a war
crimes venue instead of entry of the U.S.A. into a war it has been promoting
for at least two years?
The Obama
administration seems determined to advance the project of creating a facsimile
of a Sunni caliphate from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Atlantic as soon as
possible by bumping out the only non-Sunni nation besides Israel in the way
Syria (with Lebanon a sort of a polysectarian society) for the present. Lebanon
had the P.L.O. and Yassir Arafat living there eventually being forced to move
to North Africa, before the Shi'a of Hezballah increased power. Al Qaeada cadre
may find it easier to organize and travel through a Sunni caliphate.
If Syria becomes ruled
by the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, the Shi'a nation that Washington D.C doesn't
like, will be isolated and bereft of friendly non-Sunni power on its borders.
Probably Washington insiders have calculated that ditching Assad and the
Alawite will bring the Age of Aquarius to the south shore of the Mediterranean
and help Europe adjust to Sunni power and influence. The French may need to
learn to speak Arabic.
India too- that
developed independence when the immanent prospect of a vast Muslim-Hindu war
prompted the war-weary Brits to exit may find bilateral relations with Pakistan
more challenging if a Sunni Caliphate ruled by Wahhabi royals develops
simplifying empirical power flow iterations for terrorists.
It is good to know that
the Obama administration's drive to boot Assad and other non-Sunni sectarian governments from power in North
Africa and the Middle East say the Syrian wr must conclude through a negotiated political settlement such as
worked for the U.S.A. in Vietnam. The Paris peace talks were very cool.
Everyone spoke French- Ho Chi Minh worked in Paris as a waiter in youth. A
Sunni Caliphate will bring terrorists together under one orthodox Islamic
political hegemony. Salifist and Wahhabist drifts toward intolerance of
Christians and Jews and tourism in Saudi Arabia could evolve in different
directions. The end of the Assad regime must bring visions of new market sales
throughput and sugar plum fairies to the White House and Wall Street.
The homosexual elite of
Boston seem like the administration's special advisors comparable to neocons
lobbying the Bush II White House. President Obama's evolution of leadership may
have a paradigm expecting Saudi Arabia's military to tolerate homosexual
marriage and allow women to enter the ministry of the Koran to former
mujahideen and mufsidoon that will repent their intolerance and lapses into use
of hate speech. In a race to the top education program for Muslims of the
Caliphate national policy usually regarded as decadence could be thought of as
progress along with vast national debt requiring only broadcast media conditioning
of the masses for making things hunkie dorrie.
Bombing Syria to bring
peace and war-bucks to defense contractors is a giant leap for big brother
government. As it is unlikely that a bombing mission will remove all Syrian
chemical weapons-even a few gallons could kill many thousands used carefully,
and only a Syrian capability of using chemical weapons against a conventional
military force attacking in large numbers might be done though its unlikely
that any large conventional military force besides the United States might
attack Syria, the object of ending the threat of chemical attacks on civilians
in Syria doesn't seem like a mission that can accomplished with a bombing 'to
degrade the ability of the Syrian government to wage chemical war'. Since a
basic rule of war is like that of a syllogism, or dictum de omni-the premises
must add up to the conclusion, the logic of the administration seems faulty.
What seems lost in the
hurricane of war planning activity by the administration is that vote by the
Senate and House to support a quick affordable chastisement of Assad's military
or to demure. Evidently the vote was just make-work for a Congress that hasn't
anything better to do anyway. To keep them in practice in case they need to
pass meaningful legislation one day when they least expect it is an executive
responsibility. A good example of selective law enforcement upgrade by the
President-just get the congress to waste time on resolutions to-be-ignored as
well as laws.
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