A Mediterranean Battlefield - Syria

[Magda Hassan]

Sorry Bill but there is just a 100 kinds of wrong in what you've just written here. We all know it has nothing to do with dictators. The US having created and certainly worked with most of them. Nor is it to do with helping the Syrian people. If the US cared about liberating people in the Middle East they would get NATO to arm the Palestinians to get their land back. They'd be threatening to bomb Israel for their dangerous unaccountable nuclear (and chemical and biological) weapons programme. Or over throw the House of Saud and get women the right to freedom of movement, assembly and speech and universal suffrage. But they are not doing that are they?

And Peter, it isn't very hard to figure out who the bad guys are - the ones with the military police state who torture children, don't allow journalists in the country they think they own and can pass along power to their children, and are using artillery to their own people, and the people are the good guys.

You must mean then the US then with its cult of death? The children it kidnapped from their countries they invaded and now imprisoned in Guantanamo being tortured? Or perhaps the children it puts on death row to be executed? Or the collaterally damaged executed children of Vietnam, Korea, China, Pakistan, Sudan, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Panama, Guatemala, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, Iran, Somalia, Yugoslavia, Grenada and Peru? The US with a for profit prison industrial complex which needs bodies, preferably black and brown, to warehouse and use as slave labour and charge 10 times more than it would take to put them through college or put them up in the Hilton hotel for the same period of time? The police military state like the US which is the biggest supplier and pusher of weapons in the world and who goes into all corners of the world to cause chaos and mayhem to sell their deadly products because there is no profit for the corporations in peace? The war and death economy is the only one there by the looks of it. The US which out sources it's torture programme to countries like Libya and Syria and Egypt? The US, a country which has never met a dictator it didn't like and couldn't do business with as long as they were their puppet? And most all of them were made in the USA. And do you mean political prisoners like Leonard Peltier, Bradley Manning, Dr Martin Luther King, the Cuban 5, Mumia Abu-Jamal, David Rice, Angela Davis, Veronza Bowers Jr, Geronimo Pratt, and who knows how many Occupiers and just 1,000's of socially and politically unconnected poor people and people with mental health problems? And the place where Reporters Without Borders now place the US at number 47 in press freedom. The US home of the House of Un American Activities where people were only free to support the party line. It is still in effect if not law now with the Patriot Act. Where tourists are barred from entry to the US because of jokes on Twitter. The land of SOPA, ACTA, and PIPA and a dozen others coming off the legislative assembly to censor and control the internet. Where you can be extradited from New Zealand or the UK for downloading a song and spend 50 years in jail for it but if you are working for the CIA in Pakistan and you murder some locals they'll smuggle you out. Where the 1% rule the country because they own it.

If any of them were trained by NATO then it will be the second time in two years that NATO has assisted the right side, Libya being the first.

NATO, or as many call it, New Aryan Teutonic Order, does nothing right. It can't even read a map. Syria and Libya are no where near the North Atlantic. NATO was founded in fascism by fascists. NATO has no business even existing let alone destroying other people's countries. It is a criminal enterprise and will produce nothing positive any more than being on the receiving end of La Cosa Nostra brings any social, political or personal benefit.

I don't understand leftest and liberals who check to see who the CIA and NATO is supporting before making up their minds as to who is a tyrant and who is the freedom fighter.

I don't understand how some good but naive or tunnel visioned people can't see that the corporate brand USA and Israeli project and the massive military protection that they both need to exist are the biggest threat to world peace we have and that they are tyrannical and never fight for any one's freedom except the freedom of the corporations of the 1% to exploit local resources for their own obscene profits and power.

Now they are finally doing what they have to do, and use assassination as a weapon against Assad, as he has used it against them.
BK

I find terrorism of any kind appalling and reprehensible. I don't care who does it. The US and other countries should be condemning in the strongest words what has happened in Syria. The fact that they are not sends all the wrong messages and shows them to be the hypocrites they are. Tell me about what happened on September 11th 2001 again? Tell me what happened on 9th of November 1938? Tell me what happened 22nd of July 1946? Tell me what happened 21st of December 1988. What happened September 18th 1982? Why are you not cheering these appalling events as well? The rule stands for all or it stands for none. Don't be surprised when your nation has another 911 or when another President is executed in public. And don't be surprised if others rejoice. If Assad is a criminal let him be charged and stand trial. Like Bush and Blair and Cheney and company.