{"id":78501,"date":"2013-08-29T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=78501"},"modified":"2013-09-01T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T14:31:27","slug":"western-democracies-and-criminal-interventionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=78501","title":{"rendered":"Western Democracies and Criminal Interventionism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gilad Atzmon — gilad.co.uk August 29, 2013<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>It doesn\u2019t take a genius to grasp that the American president doesn\u2019t really want to attack Syria. He doesn\u2019t want to topple Assad\u2019s regime – He doesn\u2019t have an alternative partner on the ground. Instead of \u2018Shock and Awe\u2019 this time the Pentagon is talking about \u2018surgical attack\u2019. The English speaking empire, famous for its destructive inclinations, makes the potential attack on Syria sound like a \u2018cosmetic effort\u2019. No one in America, Britain, France or Israel is yet to suggest what is the goal of such an attack. What are the military initiatives? But the most crucial question is what could be the positive outcome of such a military assault? I guess that we have to admit that Obama\u2019s administration is almost as confused as the situation on the ground is.<\/h5>\n
It seems as if in a relatively short time, the American administration has managed to fall into every possible trap. It is now affiliated as well as conflicting with Al-Qaeda (assuming there is such a thing), Wahhabi war-mongers, Salafi terrorists, the Muslim Brotherhood and their enemies – the Arab seculars and nationalist revolutionary forces. America has tried to appease them all, but it obviously failed in every possible front.\u00a0 Dropping bombs on Syria is not going to provide the goods either. A \u2018surgical\u2019 assault on Damascus is not going to appease America\u2019s Wahhabi partners, it may even achieve the opposite. I guess that time is ripe for Obama to re-examine America\u2019s entire interventionist doctrine, but can he?\u00a0 Can an American leader think for himself? Can an American leader think for America? \u00a0\u00a0Can an American leader think at all, or is he or her just reacting to Lobby pressure?<\/h5>\n
For more than a while, America\u2019s leadership has been in a clear state of detachment and alienation – instead of looking after America\u2019s national interests, like other Western democracies, it is torn between opposing lobby interests and marginal pressure groups. I guess that no super power can maintain its hegemony under such circumstances. Accordingly, America, in its attempt to appease many conflicting lobbies, conveys a growing hesitance that has led into political impotence and a diplomatic standstill.<\/h5>\n
I guess that the meaning of it all is pretty devastating: Western democracies are becoming lethal instruments easily manipulated by foreign interests and ethnic lobbies. We are basically taken into wars by our elected politicians, because some other people expect us to do so. Yet when our leaders launch criminal wars they actually incriminate not just themselves, but each and every one of us.<\/h5>\n
The meaning of it is simple: every act of attempted aggression by our democratically elected leaders, must be subject to public scrutiny and an open political discussion. Obama and Cameron should present the exact reasoning that led them to decide upon a military action.\u00a0 They should present a smoking gun that links Assad to the chemical attack on his people. It is not enough for us to learn that the White House has managed to convince itself that Assad is a war criminal. I guess the fact that Bush and Blair have never been brought to The Hague has something to do with our leaders dismissal of international law.<\/h5>\n
Yesterday evening, when it looked as if an American attack on Syria was imminent and just a matter of hours away, Britain managed to save the situation – it gave president Obama a rope, it allowed him a bit more time to reconsider his action. It may even be possible that Britain followed Obama\u2019s request. Someone in Britain must have realised that launching a war while the UN team is still investigating, would be hard if not impossible to justify afterwards. Clearly, the timing of the British decision to postpone the attack was crucial, yet, in order to save our civilization, we must form the necessary political instruments that would prevent our politicians from dragging us into foreign conflicts and world wars against our will and without our consent.<\/h5>\n
The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics in general and Jewish Left in particular, available on <\/span>Amazon.c<\/span>om<\/span> <\/a>& Amazon.co.<\/span>uk<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n

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