Yesterday The Greanville Post published a good analysis of the current, bipartisan brouhaha that erupted over President Trump’s decision to
withdraw US forces from Syria, prompting the immediate resignation of the Secretary of Defense, James Mattis.
Its heading reads — The current kerfuffle amid the US ruling class shows more clearly than ever that all parties are morally repugnant.
Well said…
An except from the piece appears below:
“Despite theatrics, his [Mattis’] gesture is NOT about the nation’s security. Unless entirely brainwashed by his own propaganda, he knows neither Russia nor China nor Iran represent existential threats to ordinary Americans, only the interests of the ruling 0.00001%, whom he has served all his life…
“Major broadcast media outlets have been overwhelmingly critical of the withdrawal decision, bringing on former generals and intelligence figures like ex-CIA director John Brennan to denounce it as a capitulation to Russia, Iran and the Syrian government.
“The New York Times published an editorial Thursday invoking the authority of Trump’s national security adviser, the maniacal warmonger and international bully, John Bolton, citing his vow to expand the role of US troops in Syria to confront Iran.
“It criticized Trump for having ‘overruled Mr. Bolton and the rest of his national security team.’ His decision, the newspaper of record of what once passed for American liberalism, argued, had sowed new uncertainty about America’s commitment to the Middle East…’
“According to the monitoring group Airwars, nearly 30,000 Syrians have been reported killed as a result of US bombardments, with tens of thousands more maimed.
“This slaughter has been justified in the name of a war against ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), which was itself the product of the US war of aggression against Iraq, which claimed roughly a million lives and demolished an entire society. ISIS was further nurtured through the subsequent wars for regime-change in Libya and Syria, where Washington armed and supported the very same Islamist militias that it subsequently claimed to be fighting.
“The bitter debate in Washington is driven by rival factions within the ruling class that are equally rapacious and bloodthirsty, determined to prepare for global war to advance the interests of a crisis-ridden American capitalist order against its major rivals, China and Russia, while divided over tactics in terms of how to pursue these aims in the Middle East and elsewhere.”
You can read the entire piece here.
As you know, I am no fan of our president, but even a broken clock is correct once a day. So, I applaud the president’s decision. I hope that he will follow through in a way that is effective for all concerned.
The bi-partisan outrage now being leveled against him, with its bizarre
connections to anti-Russian hysteria, is exhibit A in demonstrating how deeply the militaristic/imperialist mindset has taken control of American politics and media.
It is also a classic example of how easily blind passion (in this case, liberal-Democratic hatred of Donald Trump) can neutralize all sense and sensibility.
