Shortly after 9/11, I remember George W. Bush stating "you're either with us, or you're with the enemy". I remember the disgust I felt that a president could utter such a crass, toxically reductive phrase on the world stage.
Naturally we have become used to crass, over-simplistic rhetoric hailing from America for decades; but somehow this statement crystallised something in my mind on that day. It forced me to admit to myself that I was going to have to take responsibility for finding out what is going on in the world. It forced me to realise I was going to have to take time out of my life to become involved in things I previously believed was the domain of "experts" and "professionals".
And it does not get any better this side of the Atlantic either. Our equivalent talking heads here in UK have become increasingly inept, increasingly obtuse, and incapable of representing us in an honourable way.
Since then I have become more engaged with political machinations and world events, as have many of us. This lead me to ruminate upon one or two over-riding themes. Let me explain.
Our military and administrations decided to "remove Saddam Hussein" because he "was hurting his own people", was a nasty man and had also entered Kuwait. They then put in place sanctions which killed 500,000 children over ten years, upwards of a million people altogether. When Saddam stubbornly refused to go, we had the WMD lies, repeated and repeated and bleated by every dumb-dumb masquerading as a journalist in UK and USA. This lead to the bombing of the country and its people into oblivion; leaving depleted uranium shells that would cause cancers for decades to come, and a country bereft of infrastructure, bereft of hope. Who, do you think, caused the most devastation to the innocents in Iraq? Saddam, or those who took it upon themselves, under spurious circumstances, to "overthrow him"?
Now I ask you to think about Syria, in the same way. There is a filthy and extremely childish propaganda campaign in the west to demonise President Assad. It is worthy of an Oscar nomination for its guile and shameless self propagation. Not since the blackening of the now exonerated Melosovic, have we seen so many lies told by so many liars. Put that to one side, and suppose for a moment that it's not propaganda. Suppose that President Bashar Al Assad really was and is hurting his own people. I need to ask this vital question:
Bearing in mind the catastrophic failures of intervention in Iraq... which course of action do you think will hurt the people and land of Syria more: western bombing raids (increasingly inept bombing) and inhumane sanctions, or... leaving the people of Syria to decide their own fate and make their own future?
Can you honestly believe the west has "humanitarian concerns" about anybody in Syria, given the lack of concern for people of Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Serbia/Yugoslavia/Bosnia, or any other country they have tried to either conquer, sabotage or "regime change" by proxy?
We always measure the human cost of war first, of course. But add to this that Iraq and Syria had an abundant heritage stretching back millennia, to the oldest known, and possibly much wiser civilisations. Priceless artifacts, irreplaceable buildings and remnants of "The Holy Land" used to abound in what is fast becoming a desert, bereft of any traces of our ancestry. You have to ask yourself the question: "what kind of perverse, malevolent entities would be able to carry out such irreparable devastation without remorse, without exhausting all possible alternative diplomatic means to secure peace?"
Dirty wars. Filthy cover up propaganda, via a disgustingly corrupted media mafia. Tainted, compromised and cynical politicians; spineless skivvies for a rabid and rampant machine commonly referred to as the "military industrial complex" and of course, for Mossad. We see the pattern repeating and repeating ad nauseam. We hear Hillary Clinton et al openly admitting there has been a campaign to cultivate a citizenry which is "unaware", meaning less justification is necessary because people will accept just one version of everything and not even notice that real life is never that simple. We heard Madeleine Albright shamelessly confess, when asked about 500,000 child deaths in Iraq, that it had still been "worth it" to secure "peace" in Iraq (?)
If our world leaders were any good at their job, they would solve problems without firing a single shot, through diplomacy, give and take, and graceful manoeuvering. Sadly, they are far from good at their jobs. Clearly, they absolutely stink at their jobs. In fact they have been abjectly failing ever since political life was invented as a thing. In my lifetime I don't remember a prime minister who did not leave "under a cloud". I don't think USA has had a president who even tried not to fail since JFK. This succession of serial Mr. Beans cannot be seriously thinking we have not noticed that they, erm, are perhaps not even trying to get it right? That somehow there is more to it... that, perhaps, chaos and a permanently confused, disenfranchised public better suits the needs and desires of those from whom they get their orders?
And while we can muse interminably upon the ineptitude of our effete, Alinsky-esque ruling classes; Upon whether it really is feckless incompetence, or rather a fawning, obsequious servitude, the end result remains the same. Millions dead. The rest of us reluctant, acquiescent observers of a perpetual Groundhog Day vision of hell on earth. Morally bankrupt, emotionally shattered, and spiritually damned.
Does it ever make you wonder what the fuck is wrong with all of us that we continue to vote for these vermin to come back again for another term? Are we that far gone down "Lobotomy Lane"? Not only swallowing that "there's one naughty bad guy out there, here's his picture, we have to woop his ass" ... but now also nodding and smiling at the ludicrous postulate that "there's no other way to run the country, and if we tried to reform the electoral process it would all go straight to hell".
Ladies and gentlemen, if there is indeed a "hell", we are already there. And someone is about to turn up the thermostat. Let's talk.
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