Darrell Castle talks about the recent U.S. missile attack in Syria and the nature of war itself.

 

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SYRIA, THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, April 27, 2018, and on today’s Report I will again be discussing Syria and the United States involvement there.  The further we get from the alleged poison gas attack by the forces of Syrian president Bandar al Assad upon his own civilian population, the less sense it makes.  We are expected to believe that Assad used a poison gas weapon, banned by international agreement and sure to draw an immediate US response, against a civilian population, which was no threat to him, and in an area in which he was apparently just hours away from complete victory.  In addition, the attack was launched immediately after President Trump announced that the United States would soon be leaving Syria.  The claim is therefore not believable.

I watched the speech of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley to the Security Council and her statements seem pretty implausible.  She made many accusations but offered zero evidence.  Her statement was a long diatribe blaming Russia for the alleged attack because Russia has refused UN inspections and sanctions on Assad in the past.  She again offered no evidence whatsoever that anything she said was true.  We are expected to believe and accept the statement, “the United States believes, or United States intelligence has revealed”, as evidence but that doesn’t cut it anymore.  Unfortunately, United States intelligence agencies have lost the right to be believed at face value and real evidence is required.

France and the United Kingdom joined in the American attack and also defended it alongside Ambassador Haley at the Security Council.  However, former UK Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, offered a different view.  Mr. Ford did not share his government’s and the media’s version of the attack.  He said that he did not believe the poison gas attack by Assad forces actually happened and the whole thing was a false flag attack.

Bandar al Assad is a bad dictator and the United States really doesn’t like bad dictators, or does it? Muammar Gaddafi of Libya was a bad dictator, Saddam Hussein of Iraq was a bad dictator, and so are Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong-Un.  According to Freedom House’s rating system there were 49 nations in the world, as of 2015, the last year measured, that were characterized as "dictatorships".  The United States Government provides military assistance to 36 of them.  Seventy three per cent of the world’s dictators are on the dole of U.S. taxpayers.

Furthermore, we are now in the 17th year of the “war on Terror”, declared unilaterally by President George W. Bush in 2001.  That war seems to be spreading instead of ending so the question becomes-- Where in the world is the U.S. military operating today?  According to a recent article by US News and World Report entitled “Where in the World id the US Military? Everywhere”, the U.S. military is literally everywhere.  American counterterrorism forces are active in 76, or 40%, of the world’s countries.  Those are just the forces actively deployed fighting actual wars in 40% of the world.  U.S. forces are based or located in most of the rest.

Operation Enduring Freedom, which started in Afghanistan in October of 2001, has now rapidly spread around the entire world.  Right now Africa, more than anywhere else, is the most active region in the war on terror and is therefore getting the most U.S. attention.  Military personnel, as well as massive amounts of military technology, hardware, training and expertise are pouring in to local African military and police forces.  U.S. military bases, camps, compounds, port facilities and “cooperative security locations” dot the African continent.  U.S. Special Forces are being deployed to track insurgents across Africa.  Drone strikes to kill targets are also increasin...