Casus Belli: He Who Forgets History

Afghanistan

Once upon a time, a group called PNAC reported that America needed a new Pearl Harbor.  Then, 9/11 happened.  America had been attacked, ostensibly by 15 Saudi Arabians calling themselves Al Qaeda.  These Saudis had fought against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan (can see a dramatized description of this “war” in a movie called Charlie Wilson’s War).

In response to the 9/11 attack, then President GW Bush decided to retaliate by attacking the warlords of Afghanistan known as the Taliban who never attacked anybody but each other.  Later, Obama would call this, “the Good War,” and the bloody occupation of Afghanistan (called by the Russians, the Bear Trap) continues to this day.  So let’s be clear–9/11 = Al Qaeda.

Small aside–9/11 justified in the minds of Americans the establishment of…DHS, a vastly empowered TSA and FEMA, and an unleashing of NSA on American Citizens effectively creating a Soviet-style Surveillance and Security State.

Iraq

GW also decided to attack Iraq using the same excuse Clinton used to attack Iraq in Operation Desert Fox–the dreaded Weapons of Mass Destruction…WMDs were very scary.  Clinton told us that, left unchecked, Iraq would have WMDs in months, not years.  Then after launching a bunch (600 or so) of cruise missiles at Saddam, Clinton never sent any inspectors back to Iraq, leaving them alone for years not months.

Before Bush’s invasion, the dangerous Iraqi Republican Guard (read, bunch of barely trained and poorly equipped lollygaggers built up by the press to be the new Waffen SS) were set up to defy the American Military in…the mother of all battles.  Remember?

This mother took place……WITHOUT…the Iraqi Air Force, which our horrible villain, Saddam, had flown to his nearest and dearest enemy Iran for, I don’t know, safe keeping…you know, because air support is “overrated.”  Now to be fair, we knew Saddam had chemical weapons because we still had the receipts from selling them to him–but no significant threat to the US or US interests was ever found.

In other words, we destabilized a country–for nothing–if you don’t count the fact that Haliburton’s stock quadrupled after Cheney (a former Haliburton CEO and Chairman of their Board of Directors) gifted them with no-bid contracts (the documentary “Iraq for Sale” does a nice job of showing the insane waste involved).  The expense of the Iraq war makes Viet Nam look like a Church fundraiser.

Libya

Then after 8 years of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush and Wolfowitz, the country was fed up with these fake conservative, fake Christian, fake anti-Gay-marriage murderers and war criminals, and begged for Obama to come and end the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan which were huge drains on an already faltering economy.  However, Obama either didn’t understand or feigned ignorance of the fact that the warmongering was more than just the willing neo-con profiteers, but came from another source.  So in the beginning, he was distracted from pulling troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan by a small conflict in Libya.

The warmongers were smart.  They moved the big bad guys of 9/11, Al Qaeda, who actually worked for the Western Powers, to Libya and called it a rebellion.  But the rebellion stalled because Gadhafi had this thing called an air force.  Al Qaeda couldn’t overthrow the Taliban so the US military did it.  And they couldn’t deal with Gadhafi’s air power so, once again, American air power became the Al Qaeda air force when Obama declared a no-fly zone over Libya.

The outcome?

A dead Gadhafi and an unpopular, instituted government formed by a group calling itself the Muslim Brotherhood.  Once again, let’s be clear…Al Qaeda = Muslim Brotherhood = 9/11.  Poor Obama had been, knowingly or unknowingly, duped into serving the same purpose Bush and Clinton had served, and it wasn’t an American purpose.

So then, we had this lovely event called the Benghazi scandal in which an American Ambassador and some Navy Seals asked for help, but were ignored and left to die in order to cover up knowledge that arms from Libya were being shipped to…Syria.  (But, why Syria Fred?)  The Seals had reached out for help, but were ignored by someone at least as high up as Hillary Clinton (Remember that bozo who carpet bombed milk factories?  Yeah his wife).  The Seals were fairly bright though, so they sent a message through (I love this part) friends in the gaming community.  The dirty little secret was out, much to Hillary’s dismay.

Egypt

I’m now going to interrupt this little love story to mention a related unfortunate incident.  During, what was now called, “the Arab Spring,” as if the Arabs were responsible for these messes, there was a bloodless coup in Egypt.  A president who had served the West well, named Hosni Mubarak, was ousted for…you can’t make this stuff up folks…a Muslim Brotherhood government that won its election 51-49%.  Mubarak, who really had done quite a bit to foster peace in the Middle East, at first was challenged by the new President Morsi, but was allowed to resign and retire from service to the West.  If you’ll recall, at this point, Hillary (as Sec. of State) went to Egypt in support the new “popular” government and was pelted with vegetables.  President Morsi, who was never really elected at all, and his Al Qaeda cronies were quickly ousted from power in Egypt as they had been in Libya.  Hillary = MB = supports Al Qaeda = 9/11.  Now back to Syria…

Syria

Syria is a big problem.  First, Assad is a western leader.  He’s a Western-educated ophthalmologist (did his grad work in London), has an attractive wife who espouses Western-style clothing, rights for women, you name it.  Assad is a pretty good guy from a Western perspective–as good as it will ever get in the Middle East.  So, why send Al Qaeda to get rid of Assad? (Recall the Benghazi scandal?).

Well, Assad has an ok military, and he’s allied with Russia.  Russia has boucoup oil, and Syria has boucoup natural gas–a match made in hell.  This is bad for…many people with lots of money, England, the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Israel.  So how are we going to vilify good ol’ Bashar Al-Assad?  The String-pullers decided to pull a quadruple whammy.

First, they use the press to make this poor guy look like a baby killer a la GW on Saddam including…WMDs used on HIS OWN PEOPLE (can’t make this stuff up).  Then, they sent in Al Qaeda who masqueraded as the Free Syrian Army.  Third, they attempted to get Obama to declare a no-fly zone in Syria a la Libya.  Bad news for the puppet masters though, this time, Russia was having none of it.  A no-fly zone in Syria would have resulted in war with Russia.  Ok ok ok, we’ll do it another way.

The Big Picture

Completing the quadruple whammy, our press took all attention away from the FSA (who apparently all decided to put their guns on the ground and go home), and started becoming worried about something called….ISIS.  ISIS wasn’t just a rebellion which we could support or not.  ISIS is Al Qaeda 2.0.  It’s both our proxy and our boogie man.  Please don’t be confused by the new name.  And don’t be fooled by the Hollywood knife beheadings.  And don’t be fooled by the “social media” posts threatening Obama’s wife and children and the White House and all the other ridiculous threats made by this Assad-killing group on Twitter (because the NSA can’t track IP addresses).  All of these reports have one purpose–to make you angry–angry enough, in fact, to say nothing when we “attack” ISIS (by conducting air strikes against Assad–but very limited, very quietly).

Assad still has his air force though, and Russia.  So while the press makes all kinds of noise about ISIS doing terrible things (with Western money and weapons) in Iraq (since we have very limited military presence there how) and making “gains” in Syria–Assad stays in power.

Seems like the American populace isn’t falling for it this time.  Seems like we’ve seen it all before and aren’t buying this lemon.  Now, put yourself in the chair of the puppet master.  If you wanted to go into Syria (and Iran, can’t forget Iran–Netanyahu told our Congress, he’s very scared), and you had played…the baby-killer card, the WMD card, the popular rebellion card, the Al Qaeda’s air force card, what’s left?  What’s your ace in the hole?  What haven’t you played yet that the architects of the mess we call the Middle East have played in the past?

Give you a hint.

Al Qaeda = Muslim Brotherhood = ISIS = Clinton/Bush = ?

They’re missing a casus belli.  From the wiki, a casus belli is a Latin expression meaning “An act or event that provokes or is used to justify war.”  I’ll let you look up the term “false flag” on your own.

Hey, anyone want to bet against the next presidential nominees being Hillary “my daughter married into Goldman Sachs” CLINTON and Jeb BUSH?  Which flavor of Kool Aid gets your vote?

–Fred Costello