Published: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Syria
U.S. needs to quit foreign meddling
Did Congress approve the current U.S. administration's strategy to overthrow nations whose official language is Arabic and where the Sunni religion is dominant, such as Syria, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen?
On Feb. 6, The Herald had a report that the U.S. is proposing an international coalition to support Syrian opposition forces (aka rebel soldiers). After successfully ousting Mubarak in Egypt and Gadhafi in Libya, Syria's Bashar al-Assad is now on the chopping block. The Obama government conveniently forgets that the Lincoln administration allowed more than 620,000 people to die in the U.S. Civil War to keep the country together, while they deny Syria's president the right to defend his country against armed rebellion.
From biased sources, such as the Associated Press, we read that the "protesters" (armed with sub-machine guns) are fighting the Syrian "regime." The AP also focused on Tommy-gun laden "protesters" in Libya one year ago. These rebels in Syria and Libya have more freedom than Americans, considering that it is quite illegal for a citizen to brandish a machine gun here.
Obviously, past and present acts of brutality in Syria and Libya are easy to condemn. But the national media and our country's rulers side-step that George W. Bush's war in Iraq killed 100,000 people or more, based on false premises. Certainly no powerful nation is without fault. However, I ask our country's citizens and politicians to say no to further meddling and aggression in sovereign nations.
Although the U.S. policymakers know that freedom in anti-western countries, like Syria, will allow a bigger foothold for international banking-interests and corporations, such liberty will not help the poor -- even if they survive a western-funded civil war.
Steve Fry
Edmonds
On Feb. 6, The Herald had a report that the U.S. is proposing an international coalition to support Syrian opposition forces (aka rebel soldiers). After successfully ousting Mubarak in Egypt and Gadhafi in Libya, Syria's Bashar al-Assad is now on the chopping block. The Obama government conveniently forgets that the Lincoln administration allowed more than 620,000 people to die in the U.S. Civil War to keep the country together, while they deny Syria's president the right to defend his country against armed rebellion.
From biased sources, such as the Associated Press, we read that the "protesters" (armed with sub-machine guns) are fighting the Syrian "regime." The AP also focused on Tommy-gun laden "protesters" in Libya one year ago. These rebels in Syria and Libya have more freedom than Americans, considering that it is quite illegal for a citizen to brandish a machine gun here.
Obviously, past and present acts of brutality in Syria and Libya are easy to condemn. But the national media and our country's rulers side-step that George W. Bush's war in Iraq killed 100,000 people or more, based on false premises. Certainly no powerful nation is without fault. However, I ask our country's citizens and politicians to say no to further meddling and aggression in sovereign nations.
Although the U.S. policymakers know that freedom in anti-western countries, like Syria, will allow a bigger foothold for international banking-interests and corporations, such liberty will not help the poor -- even if they survive a western-funded civil war.
Steve Fry
Edmonds
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