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American Opposition to War on Syria

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The overwhelming opposition of the American people to President Obama’s bid to start another U.S. war — this one against Syria — helps light the darkness under which we are living. It is refreshing that the American people did not engage in a knee-jerk “defer to authority and bomb them” response to the president’s call for war, not even when the interventionist crowd brought up its old tried-and-true arguments for another war of aggression — e.g., patriotism, credibility, national security, appeasement, Hitler, WMDs, etc. It’s of course impossible to know what motivated each person to oppose the president’s plan. It would be far too optimistic to think that people are actually beginning to question the entire concept of the national-security state apparatus — i.e., the military industrial complex, the CIA, and the NSA — and to recognize that it is at the root of America’s woes. But I do think there is a good chance that people are finally starting to ...

TGIF: The Cynical U.S. Policy on Chemical Weapons

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“I didn’t set a red line. The world set a red line.” That was President Obama’s response this week to those who believe he wants to attack Syria in order to defend his own credibility. Secretary of State John Kerry said the same thing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. They were referring to the 88-year-old Geneva Protocol (Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare) and the 20-year-old Chemical Weapons Convention (Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction). Although 189 nations, including the United States, are parties to the CWC, it doesn’t follow that the United States has been anointed to enforce it. In fact, U.S. action against Syria would in itself violate international law, which permits the use of force by one government against another only in ...

Who’s Really Getting Punished?

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I find it interesting how President Obama intends to punish Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad for his purported use of chemical weapons against Syrian rebels. It provides a fascinating insight into the collectivist mindset. To punish Assad, Obama says that he will use his military to “degrade” Assad’s military. That inevitably means that Obama will bomb certain segments of Assad’s military, such as artillery or armor units. That means that inevitably there will be Syrian troops who are killed by Obama’s forces, but not necessarily the troops who participated in the alleged chemical attacks. They will be other troops who serve in Assad’s military forces. So, the way that Obama’s mind works, by killing and destroying a segment of Assad’s military Obama will be punishing Assad himself. It’s sort of like a bee hive — kill some of the drones and you hurt the queen and the hive. But keep in mind that every single one of those Syrian troops, most of whom are ...