January 17, 2006
There are apparently still a few stragglers who refuse to accept the
fact that the American multi-trillion dollar mistake in Iraq was made
under the influence of Israeli agents in the White House (note this
uncharacteristically stupid article
by Stephen Zunes, containing every straw man in the book, and coming
down to the fact that we can't speak the truth now as it sounds too
much like untrue anti-Semitic attacks made in the past). Of course
there were many other reasons for the attack, and the politics of
empire requires that many interest groups have to be serviced when such
a major action is taken. No one can argue that the Israeli agents were
the only reason for the attack. The Israeli agents were not a
sufficient condition for the attack, but they were a necessary
condition. The attack would never have occurred but for the actions of
those working for Israel.
If you are still not convinced,
consider the fact that the Americans are in the middle of using the
United Nations and a false concern about the Hariri assassination to
plot an attack against Syria (or here).
Those who argue against an Israeli cause for the Iraq attack rely on
other American possible reasons for wanting regime change in Iraq. What
reason can the United States possibly have for attacking Syria?:
- Does Syria have weapons of mass destruction? Nope.
- Does Syria have a program to build weapons of mass destruction? Nope.
- Does Syria have a nuclear program? Nope.
- Does Syria have or plan to have nuclear weapons? Nope.
- Does Syria pose any possible threat to the United States? Nope.
- Does Syria have a strategically important quantity of hydrocarbons? Nope.
- Does the United States need Syria as a place to build bases to control the Middle East? Nope.
- Does control of Syria give the Americans any strategic benefits whatsoever? Nope.
- Was Syria involved with the September 11 attack? Nope.
- Is
Syria connected to al Qaeda? Nope. In fact, the Syrian government is
one of the biggest enemies of Islamist terrorist groups.
- Did Syria try to blow up Bush's father? Nope.
All
of the many reasons that the Zionists claim are the real reasons the
Americans attacked Iraq simply do not apply to Syria. So why are John
Bolton and the Americans well on their way to attacking Syria?
The answer is obvious. Israel. In Sharon's last interview (with the Japanese newspaper Nikkei) before he croaked (probably assassinated) he was asked the question "Do you think the Golan Heights will stay under Israeli sovereignty forever?" and answered:
"I
don't see any situation where Israel will not be sitting on the Golan
Heights. For 19 years the northern part of Israel was under heavy war
of attrition. We are not going to return to this situation, although
Israel will never attack Syria."
This just repeats Sharon's position
on the matter. It is an illegal position under international law, and
one that is impossible to maintain unless the Syrian government is
replaced by an American puppet. The post-Sharon Likud position
calls for 'defensible borders', which includes permanent control of the
Golan Heights. The next American war will unquestionably be fought
solely for Israeli right-wing interests. Why does it continue to be so
hard to accept the real necessary condition for the last American war?
The
last attack is past, and the damage it caused can't be fixed, at least
not by any possible present or future American government. I'm
concerned about the future. Failure to acknowledge the real malign
influence of Zionism over the American government is going to doom
Syria - and no doubt many other Arabs in the Middle East - to the grim
fate of the Iraqis. If you don't cast blame where it is due you are
going to be morally responsible for the deaths which are clearly
coming, all at the instance of Israel. Failure to acknowledge the truth
based on some bad-faith concern about possible anti-Semitism also
leaves you intellectually unable to answer some of the mysteries about
American politics (it also falls into the Zionist trap of conflating an
attack on Zionism with an attack on Jews, forgetting that the real
power behind Zionism in the United States is Christian Zionism). Why
did the Democrats support the attack on Iraq? Why do they turn down a
perfect election issue and refuse - for the most part - to call for
withdrawal from Iraq? Why is nobody saying anything about the upcoming
holocaust against the Syrian people? There is only one answer for all
these questions.
