Hudswell wrote:
Oh dear....what I truely believe is that there are those have given their lives and continue to Give their lives in order to allow ungrateful nasty man to spout their crap whilst innocents die and Defend a regime who would quite happily see our way of life destroyed..and are willing to see thier future, their children exterminated by their own hands...yes shame on you..
The problem is that you believe, apparently without question, all the propaganda that you are fed. At the end of the day, this conflict in Syria was not about noble causes or the defence of freedoms, it was about the construction of a gas pipe line to take gas from America's allies in the Gulf states to Europe, so they wouldn't have to buy gas from Russia and thus damage the economy of the old enemy. You will notice that despite the anti-Russian rhetoric and the sanctions imposed by Europe on behalf of the USA, Europe is still buying its gas from Russia and is still selling cars to Russia. Follow the money!
Gesture politics, which is what Trump's ridiculous attack on Assad's airfield was, had nothing to do with protecting innocents. It was theatre for public consumption. No-one in this game cares a jot about the innocents who die along the way. This is not about good men in white hats defending the public from those nasty men (no substitute intended) from the East. It's about gas, keeping down Russian opposition and ensuring that Saudi Arabia doesn't demand back the trillions of American debt it holds.
Saudi Arabia is a worse country for human rights violation than Syria ever was. There are no Christian churches there, and head chopping, the suppression of women and the killing of gays (all those things liberals profess to care about) are a way of life, yet no-one is talking about deposing the Saudi leadership. They are feted by our leaders - even the Royal family - and we are arming the Saudis to fight their neighbours to feed our armaments industry. The Arab press reports that it was Saudi that paid the millions for the missiles for Trump's gesture.
This always was, and remains, about a gas pipe that Assad opposed, and will continue until he is gone. How many people are killed, maimed or displaced is irrelevant to that.
Frankly I wouldn't have put it past the CIA to have arranged the gas explosion to hurry things along, given that Assad with his Russian help was actually winning the war and that would never fit with their wider plans for the region.
It's all very well thinking that people's motives are good - and in the case of the military forces who put their lives in harms way, that is almost certainly true - but those who send them out to fight and die have no such bonhomie.
What gets to me is the dishonesty and the hypocrisy. Trump has been played, or he is part of the problem. I hoped the former, but fear the latter as that doesn't bode well for the future. Wars are fantastic opportunities to make money, and we are in the firing line.