{"id":51205,"date":"2016-10-05T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51205"},"modified":"2016-10-05T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:29:14","slug":"is-us-war-of-aggression-in-syria-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51205","title":{"rendered":"Is US War Of Aggression In Syria On The Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Windsor, CA<br \/>\nOctober 4, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>It was bad enough that the US &#8220;accidentally&#8221; bombed Syrian<br \/>\ngovernment troops recently killing and wounding up to 200 men.<\/p>\n<p>No one who is objectively looking at the event accepts our<br \/>\nexplanation of the tragedy, especially the Russians.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45590.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45590.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blaming Russia seems the predominant policy for the current<br \/>\nAdministration as a way of avoiding responsibility for its repeated<br \/>\nviolations of international law and failed interventionist approach.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50925\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50925<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Ray McGovern and others point out, all this saber rattling could<br \/>\nlead to nuclear war: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45591.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45591.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Obama virtually out the door, the Neocons and hawks led by\u00a0his likely successor, Hillary Clinton, are drooling for the chance for\u00a0another regime change regarding President Assad.<\/p>\n<p>We may learn soon enough whether Obama will finally relent and\u00a0release the dogs of war in Syria as many have wanted him to do\u00a0for a long time:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-04\/us-considering-air-strikes-assad-regime-after-top-general-warns-it-could-lead-war-ru\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-04\/us-considering-air-strikes-assad-regime-after-top-general-warns-it-could-lead-war-ru<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The West has again embraced terrorism against a small nation<br \/>\nand is guilty of exactly the kind of barbarism it projects onto Assad<br \/>\nand Putin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45592.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45592.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Andre Vltchek asserts, it is difficult to imagine a more resilient<br \/>\nnation than the people of Syria: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45599.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45599.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How they have managed to survive in the face of unrelenting attack<br \/>\nfor nearly six years is beyond impressive. How much longer they<br \/>\ncan do so is quite problematic as events escalate and the risks of<br \/>\na far wider war rise.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is clearly accepting the challenge and doing his best to repudiate<br \/>\nWestern hypocrisy while attempting to limit the bloodshed. Anyone<br \/>\ndoubting his resolve and how seriously he takes this threat to Russia<br \/>\nneed merely peruse this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/1907902\/russia-holds-massive-nuclear-war-exercise-involving-40million-people-as-military-tensions-rise-with-us\/\">http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/1907902\/russia-holds-massive-nuclear-war-exercise-involving-40million-people-as-military-tensions-rise-with-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The disparaging headline from the British Sun is typical of Western<br \/>\nmedia which reflects the arrogance and duplicity of its leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the surreal quality of these events is the 2016 presidential<br \/>\ncampaign in which the two major party candidate are vying for who is<br \/>\nthe lesser of two evils. Trump continues to say stupid things while<br \/>\nClinton&#8217;s scandal revelations increase every day:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/10\/marc-turi-libyan-rebels-hillary-clinton-229115\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/10\/marc-turi-libyan-rebels-hillary-clinton-229115<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to believe saner heads might prevail. But the way events<br \/>\nare going, it appears that a US war of aggression is on the way.<\/p>\n<p>May God have mercy on us all!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatdoesitmean.com\/index2130.htm\">http:\/\/www.whatdoesitmean.com\/index2130.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}