"WE'RE ON THE BRINK OF WAR...AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE"
He writes the situation from his side of the Atlantic but the same story and situation applies to this side of the Atlantic regarding Syria.
President Trump has called the Syrian leader "Animal Assad" and claims some "humanitarian crisis" will happen if the Syrian government backed by Russia and Iran go after the Al-Qaeda terrorists in northern Syria.
Administration statements and officials warn of a "chemical attack" in Syria that will be responded to quickly.
The Syrians and Russians say fake videos have already been produced of such an attack.
I voted for Donald Trump to keep the USA out of the Syrian war and to focus on this country and certainly not to protect the kind of jihadists (Al Qaeda) using new names in Syria.
Seventeen years after 9/11 the USA looks like its aligned with Al-Qaeda jihadists in Syria.
Just like WWI. Nobody asked the British people if they
wanted to go to war in 1914; the politicians simply committed them on the basis of “executive agreements”.
If you read the full column Hitchens also notes a major consequence of the war-wars in Libya-Syria.
The migrants who have flooded Europe and Canada and been dumped in the US as well.
>>> I voted for Donald Trump to keep the USA out of the Syrian war and to focus on this country
Make no mistake... The Syrian war is NOT about Syria.... It’s about Israel, and who controls the oil coming out of it.
Israel is our ally... and for us to abandon them would be to curse them... and we know what the bible has to say about that.
2,000 people:
EVERY day the equivalent of a very small Mexican town picks up, moves, and crosses the US border.
WE ARE BEING INVADED.
I cannot think of any historical example of a country freely electing to pursue an expensive war that is NONE of it’s business on the other side of the globe...
WHILE BEING INVADED by a people who more and more clearly say this country belongs to them and that WE are the outsiders.
It’s breath-taking.
Simple to ignore a slow-motion invasion is bad enough, but to do it while being told to fight the expensive, religio-ethnic wars of countries is unsustainable and ridiculous.
Let middle-easterners sort out middle-eastern problems.
Do we have enough oil..? That is our singular interest there, nothing more.
drivel
“Seventeen years after 9/11 the USA looks like its aligned with Al-Qaeda jihadists in Syria. “
If you look around at history, there is a long list of weird allies. Before WWII the British considered attacking Soviet Russia. It was only after Germany invaded that Stalin turned from a vicious commie dictator to “Uncle Joe.” For what it’s worth, I think Trump leaks stuff to sound like an unhinged, ready to attack anybody crazy. He has shown, though, that he’s crazy like a fox. It’s better that the world’s bad actors are kept off guard than to assure them, as Obama did, over and over, that the US will tolerate anything and do nothing. If you’ve played poker, you understand what Trump’s doing.
I was one of the first supporters of President Trump, even here on FB. A major reason was I believed he wanted to make hotels and golf courses, not war.
I think Trump is being misled by leftist controlled military commanders.
Out of the Middle East NOW!
Hitchens always sees himself and Little England as a victim of big, bad USA. Has he yet written about British collusion in trying to hand an American election to Hillary?!
I’m confused. When did Syria become a state of the United States?
No US ground troops to Syria. No Syrian refugees accepted. We cannot solve the world’s problems or take in all of the people fleeing those problems. Syria is Europe’s problem, and Russia’s problem.
17 years post 9/11 and this is NOT what I would have expected.
Just more of the McCain crap and so stupid that it must be the pipelines. Nothing else makes sense.
I want us to stay out if Syria.
Assad is no teddy bear, but removing him will unleash neck cutting chaos on Israel’s border.
More proof that people will fall for anything if you use CAPITAL LETTERS.
A few people are paying attention.
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Again with the lie that Saddam had no WWMDs.
The NY Slimes ran with the story in 2014, detailing the injuries to US servicemen who chanced across the caches of mustard agent and sarin. The Slimes later published the US intelligence report on the discoveries, released under FOIA. It's even been noted on Wikipedia that "the total number of munitions discovered since 2003 had climbed to 4,990...."
The Daily Beast later reported that Bush administration insiders claimed that it was Carl Rove's idea to cover up having found the weapons.
But they were there. And we found them. Bush was right all along.