Imperialist Warmongers Strike Again-Down With Bombing of Syria!U.S. Out of the Near East!
As Obama,
His House And Senate Allies, His “Coalition Of The Willing” Beat
The War Drums-Again- Stop The Escalations-No New U.S. War In Iraq- No
Intervention In Syria! Immediate Withdrawal Of All U.S. Troops And
Mercenaries! Stop The U.S. And French Bombings!
–Stop The Arms Shipments …
Frank Jackman
comment:
As the Nobel
Peace Prize Winner, U.S. President Barack Obama, abetted by the usual suspects
in the House and Senate as well as internationally, orders more air bombing
strikes in the north and in Syria, sends
more “advisers” to “protect” American outposts in Iraq, and sends arms
shipments to the Kurds, supplies arms to the moderate Syrian opposition if it
can be found to give weapons to, guys who served in the American military
during the Vietnam War and who, like me, belatedly, got “religion” on the war
issue as a kneejerk way to resolve the conflicts in this wicked old world might
very well be excused for disbelief when the White House keeps pounding out the
propaganda that these actions are limited when all signs point to the slippery
slope of escalation. And all the time saying the familiar (Vietnam era familiar
updated for the present)-“we seek no wider war”-meaning no American combat
troops. Well if you start bombing places back to the Stone Age, cannot rely on
the Iraqi troops who have already shown what they are made of and cannot rely
on a now non-existent “Syrian Free Army” which you are willing to get whatever
they want and will still come up short what do you think the next step will be?
Now not every event in history gets exactly repeated but given the recent
United States Government’s history in Iraq those old time vets might be on to
something. In any case dust off the old banners, placards, and buttons and get
your voices in shape- just in case. No New War In Iraq –Stop The Bombings- No
Intervention In Syria!
***
Here is something to think about:
Workers and the oppressed have no interest in a victory by one combatant
or the other in the reactionary Sunni-Shi’ite civil war. However, the
international working class definitely has a side in opposing imperialist
intervention in Iraq and demanding the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops
and mercenaries. It is U.S. imperialism that constitutes the greatest danger to
the world’s working people and downtrodden.
Workers Vanguard No. 1053 | 3 October 2014 |
Imperialist Warmongers Strike Again-Down With Bombing of Syria!
U.S. Out of the Near East!
Many have pointed out that Obama’s war rationale mimics George W. Bush’s invocation of the evil Saddam Hussein as the justification for the U.S. occupation of Iraq. U.S. wars fought in the name of combating terror have had as their result hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghani corpses and the proliferation of torture centers like Abu Ghraib. The Obama White House has expanded the field of murderous U.S. forays through drone and missile strikes from Somalia and Yemen to Pakistan, promising many more victims with the intervention into Syria.
U.S. interventions have shredded the social fabric of much of the Near East, thus providing a petri dish for the growth of myriad Islamic terrorist outfits throughout the area. Two such groups, the toothpaste terrorists of the (conveniently unearthed) Khorasan group and the Nusra Front, targeted for drive-by attacks during the initial air raids, are more or less direct links to Al Qaeda, which spun off ISIS itself. Forerunners of Al Qaeda were trained and funded by the CIA as it assembled a reactionary horde to oppose the Soviet Union’s intervention in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Obama—with some assistance from the British and French imperialists, who maintain interests in the Near East—projects weaving together the “good” terrorists opposed to ISIS with the forces of friendly Arab states, many of which have been/are backers of ISIS, to exterminate the threat du jour. The only criterion for membership in this club seems to be that its participants have conflicting interests in the region. A measure of the unintended consequences of this operation is that it is backed by today’s (or is it yesterday’s?) enemy, President Assad of Syria. But as we noted in “U.S. Out of Iraq! No Intervention in Syria!” (WV No. 1051, 5 September), Assad’s approval may backfire on him given that the U.S. maintains its opposition to his rule. It is the duty of the American working people to oppose any and all U.S. imperialist intervention in Syria, and everywhere else.
Despite the absence of non-delusional policy objectives in the U.S. military campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, its purpose, like all the wars of U.S. imperialism, is to enforce and perpetuate its domination of the planet. This was nicely captured by the New York Times (24 September) report that Obama’s sermon to the UN left “little doubt that the United States would act as the ultimate guarantor of an international order.”
In addition to the millions of those slaughtered by U.S. imperialism in its wars are the other victims of the decaying capitalist order, both abroad and in this country. Working people in the U.S. have seen their wages slashed and/or their benefits gutted with no prospects of any real economic revival to reverse the bloodletting of the deep and prolonged recession. Black people continue to be gunned down by the killer cops, with the events in Ferguson revealing the real face of racist capitalist America. Dissatisfaction with those who govern is rampant, matched only by the despair of those who are governed. What is needed is a surge of class struggle and social protests, which will provide the basis for building a revolutionary internationalist working-class party with the purpose of overturning the profit-gorged U.S. imperialist order.
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