{"id":75721,"date":"2017-06-18T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75721"},"modified":"2017-06-18T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T20:30:54","slug":"us-war-crimes-in-syria-iraq-and-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75721","title":{"rendered":"US War Crimes In Syria, Iraq and Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Ferndale, WA<br \/>\nJune 18, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>President Trump continues the failed Neocon policies of his predecessors<br \/>\nin the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Having promised during the campaign to forego regime change interventions<br \/>\nand boots on the ground, he has reversed himself and therefore is fully complicit<br \/>\nin the war crimes our nation is perpetuating throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>One does not have to be a socialist to agree with the following analysis:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47265.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47265.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of a genuine anti-war movement is deeply troubling especially as the<br \/>\nLeft has almost completely abandoned that role in American politics. The failure<br \/>\nof Bernie Sanders to articulate an authentic sense of outrage at our military<br \/>\nexcesses and imperial ways contributed to his defeat against Hawk Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Yemen is particularly egregious and warrants international<br \/>\ncondemnation of Saudi Arabia as well as Trump and the US for their support of<br \/>\ntheir atrocities against the hapless people and children of that beleaguered country.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the Senate will step up and oppose the arms sale to Riyadh that<br \/>\nthe president negotiated during his recent visit to the Middle East.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/larison\/the-war-on-yemen-and-the-senate-vote-on-the-saudi-arms-sale\/\">http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/larison\/the-war-on-yemen-and-the-senate-vote-on-the-saudi-arms-sale\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One indication of the triumph of the National Security State is its ability to<br \/>\nkeep the public oblivious to what is done by their government, in their name,<br \/>\nwith their children (soldiers) and their precious tax dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Trump apologists like Roger Stone must dig deep within their souls and<br \/>\nfinally demand of their erstwhile leader that he take responsibility for this<br \/>\nmisguided course of action.<\/p>\n<p>Their champion has reneged on his pledges and embarked on a war path<br \/>\nof escalation that holds no hope of success and the high prospect of further<br \/>\ndamage to the fragile relationship with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>It is incumbent on those who support President Trump and oppose the budding<br \/>\ninsanity of the Left to insist he embrace the non-interventionist approach that<br \/>\nhelped him capture the White House. We must back away from the Deep State<br \/>\napproach to world hegemony that has caused so much grief to our nation and the<br \/>\nworld. <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=176524\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=176524<\/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-75721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75721","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=75721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}