Monday, June 28, 2021

Biden's Lawless Bombing of Iraq and Syria Only Serves the Weapons Industry Funding Both Parties

For the second time in the five months since he was inaugurated, President Joe Biden on Sunday ordered a U.S. bombing raid on Syria, and for the first time, he also bombed Iraq.

To begin with, how can U.S. airstrikes carried out in Iraq and Syria be "Defensive" in nature? How can they be an act of "Self-defense"? Nobody suggests that the targets of the bombing campaign have the intent or the capability to strike the U.S. "Homeland" itself.

Neither Syria nor Iraq is a U.S. colony or American property, nor does the U.S. have any legal right to be fighting wars in either country, rendering the claim that its airstrikes were "Defensive" and an "Act of self-defense" to be inherently deceitful.

Only the U.S. war machine and its subservient media could possibly take seriously the Biden administration's claim that the bombs they dropped on people in their own countries were "Defensive" in nature.

As The Daily Beast's long-time War on Terror reporter Spencer Ackerman put it on Sunday night, discussions of legality at this point are "Parody" because when it comes to the U.S.'s Endless Wars in the name of the War on Terror, "We passed Lawful behind many many years ago. Authorization citations are just pretexts written by lawyers who need to pantomime at lawfulness. The U.S. presence in Syria is blatantly illegal. Such things never stop the U.S.".

Why does the U.S. continue to have a military presence in Iraq and Syria? What conceivable benefits redound to American citizens from the massive expenditures required to keep U.S. troops stationed in these two countries, the risk of those troops' lives, the endless acquisition of bombs and other weapons to fight there, and the obvious but severe dangers from triggering escalation with powerful militaries that - unlike the U.S. - actually have a vital interest in what takes place in their bordering countries?

Each time the U.S. "Retaliates" against Iran or Iraqi militias or Syrian fighters, it causes them to "Retaliate" back, which in turn is cited as the reason the U.S. can never leave but must instead keep retaliating, ensuring this cycle never ends.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/bidens-lawless-bombing-of-iraq-and?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyODUxMjc5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzgxMjAzMTksIl8iOiJjYSsrVSIsImlhdCI6MTYyNDg5MTQ2NCwiZXhwIjoxNjI0ODk1MDY0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTI4NjYyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.WP1i2jeoZ1JUO-uVjVDYpw0DTWIR5YlaTk-h28Po3Ok 

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