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Post-143: Punish the Homicidal (Syrian) Maniac! War! War!

8/30/2013

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"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."   --Orwell

The U.S. Must Act Against Assad by Eugene Robinson
President Obama has to punish Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s homicidal regime with a military strike.

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The editorial by this man Robinson ("Punish the homicidal maniac!" ) is just the same as one reproduced this week by the Korea Herald, written by none other than Tony Blair. The latter seems to call for an Iraq-style invasion/occupation of Syria. The editorial was titled "It is time to take action in the Middle East". 

This really is, face it, "warmongering", strictly. 

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Both men assure the reader that toppling Syria's government would be an act of self-defense. In so doing, they nestle themselves snugly into Orwell's mold of the hypothetical pushers of "every war", of course.

Blair's final sentences:

They have to be defeated. We should defeat them, however long it takes, because otherwise they will not disappear. They will grow stronger, until we will reach another crossroads; at that point, there will be no choice.
This all makes me a bit dizzy. Blair seems to be talking about Radical Muslims, but isn't the Syrian government sort of an Arab Fascist government? I mean, if "fascist" were not a pure pejorative (Orwell wrote an essay on the uselessness of the word "fascist" by the 1940s in English since English already has the word "bad", I think is what he wrote). Syria's government is not Radical-Islamic, and is actually trying to kill Radical Muslims on a daily basis, in this war.
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