Syria airstrikes: US targets airfield in first direct military action against Assad
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Since early 2013, the American government closely followed by the United Kingdom government and with the French governments padding along at their heels like some well rained and obedient poodle, have been desperately seeking some justification, no matter how tenuous, to become involved in the Syrian Civil war. In this odious quest, they have been enthusiastically encouraged and supported by a media and television machine, frantically baying for the removal of Bashar al Assad and the Damascus government.
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Hidden amongst the
rhetoric and disinformation regarding civil rights abuses,
humanitarian assistance, chemical weapon programmes and the rest, all
spewed out to advocate Western involvement, lies the real reasoning
behind the enthusiasm for military intervention. The first and
foremost reason was and still remains, regime change in Syria aimed
at replacing the Damascus government and Bashar al Assad, with a
regime closer to and more reliant on Western, or more accurately
American, goods, services, technical and military support.
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Unfortunately for the west, the
numerous "rebel groups" are divided into hundreds of
factions, some of which the
Western Powers will openly support and others which might be
described as the "bad rebels" such as ISIS and Al Qaeda who
"the West" are covertly assisting and all of whom seem to
be involved in a war between themselves. A truly complex situation
which is almost insoluble.
With
the news overnight (6th/7th April 2017) of the American Cruise
missile strike against a Syrian government airfield at
al-Shayrat near Homs, "in retaliation" for the alleged
chemical weapons attack
upon civilians in Khan
Sheikhoun
in the rebel held Idlib province, a significant change of policy
appears to have been embarked upon in Washington. The strike took
place even as the United Nations security Council were considering a
resolution calling for a full investigation and report into the
reports from Khan
Sheikhoun and clearly demonstrates that the American government has
lost patience with
its position and constant frustration and now seeks to unilaterally
impose its will in Syria. Events over the next few days and weeks,
will reveal to what extent the region and the world has moved towards
a wider conflict or whether the attack of last night was just a short
sharp shock.
"The
West"
are quick to exert military or other measures to inflict their
collective desires in Syria, Iraq or in other locations around the
region, and yet those same powers and the media who support them, are
woefully silent in respect of atrocities
committed by allies of the West
in Yemen or Palestine
or Somalia
to name but three.
The
Western powers and their media champions, would do well to note the
following:
"Hypocrite":
the
behaviour
of people who do things that they tell other people not to do:
behaviour
that does not agree with what someone claims to believe or feel
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