GOING INTO SYRIA - A MAD RUSH AGAIN!
Who used chemical weapons really, it's a mystery. But this war makes no sense. Hear what Robert Reich, an American says:
"We're about to go into Syria. I can't tell you at this point how, but
the U.S. is readying an offensive. We're rounding up allies, as we did
before we went into Iraq. The White House is preparing the American
people, as another White House did before Iraq. But doesn't this at
least deserve a real debate? The silence in America is deafening. Didn't
we learn anything from Iraq? Or, for that matter, from Vietnam?
I'm
as appalled as anyone by the Syrian regime and its use of chemical
weapons on its own people. But what exactly do we expect to achieve by
entering this fray? And at what cost -- to us, to the Syrian people, to
the tinderbox of the Middle East?
Normally I don't venture into foreign policy, but foreign and domestic
policy aren't easily separated. At a time when almost one in four
American children is in poverty, when the middle class is struggling to
make ends meet, when inequality is widening, and we're dis-investing in
infrastructure and education, can we really afford what this initiative
could easily mushroom into? We have seen the power of the
military-industrial-congressional
complex to get its way, to get the dollars it wants, and to sway public
opinion in the direction that will be most profitable to it. At the
very least, we deserve a full and frank discussion of what the Obama
Administration is about to get us into."
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