Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A despotic secular
leader of an Islamic country is accused of murdering his own people during a
civil war. Americans who were still angry over being lied into war in Iraq
are not eager for another war. A future head of the Natonal Security Council,
the next likely POTUS, and a future ambassador to the UN begin propagating
ridiculous propaganda about the despotic secular Islamic leader giving Viagra to
his soliders so that they could rape civilians. The United
States intervenes unconstitutionally and
engages in “kinetic military action” which involves launching Tomahawk
missiles—cruise missiles which are tipped with depleted uranium and are
properly considered Geneva Conventions violating radioactive poison gas
weapons. Dozens of civilians are killed in the American led NATO attacks. The United
States succeeds in helping the bloodthirsty
Jihadist rebels overthrow the secular tyrant. These Jihadist rebels—who are
closely affiliated with al Qaeda—engage in genocidal revenge killings against
black citizens who fought on the side of the secular tyrant. Thanks to the United
States, the al Qaeda flag flies over a major
city in the nation. A year later four Americans are murdered in an attack by
some of the very Jihadists that the United
States supported in the civil war.
Sound familiar, neocons? Benghazi?
Ring a bell? You know, the tragic incident that resulted from blockback that was
created by American invervention in Libya?
Do me a favor, neocons. Put down your copies of Machiavelli, Plato, and
Strauss. Stop making goo goo eyes at that autographed photo of Trotsky that you
bought on eBay. Stop pretending that you’re conservatives. Stop thinking about
how much you love the Bismarkian welfare state and Keynesian economics. Just
listen.
The warmongering neo-Wilsonian President Obama is about to
violate the Constitution by declaring war on Syria
without the permission of Congress. Just as he did in Libya.
He is going to justify it as a humanitarian action against a tyrant who is
killing his own people. Just like he did in Libya.
He is going to help an al Qaeda allied rebel group topple a secular tyrant.
Just like he did in Libya.
In between trying to convince real conservatives that
Trotsky was Barry Goldwater with weird hair and glasses and that Irving Kristol
was an actual free market capitalist, the neoconservatives will ask: “What
could possibly go wrong?” They will say that President Obama must attack Syria
in order to not appear weak on the world stage. They will say that President
Obama must send a tough message to Iran
and that attacking Syria
will accomplish just that. Constituton be damned! They will admit that Iraqis
were not killing Kuwaiti babies in incubators prior to the Gulf War, Saddam
Hussein did not have WMDs or conspire to carry out the 9/11 attacks, and that
black Libyan soldiers were not using Viagra to rape Libyan women. But they will
claim that Syria
is different. They will swear that this time the U.S.
citizenry can trust them. It’s just not possible that the Jihadists would lie
about Assad using chemical weapons. It’s not possible that it was a false flag
attack carried about by the Jihadist rebels. Friends of al Qaeda would never do
anything nefarious like that.
The neocons will promise that Syria
will be completely different from Libya.
The Jihadists will send us Christmas cards and flowers for helping them
overthrow Assad. These Jihadists are “good al Qaeda.” Sort of like “good
cholesterol.” That is the Straussian noble lie which they will tell. When the
al Qaeda flag flies over Damascus,
they will pretend to be shocked. When Syrian rebels commit atrocities against innocent citizens, they will make excuses. When these Jihadists begin ethnically cleansing Syria of Christians, they will say it's just a few bad apples doing it. When Syria
becomes a training ground for al Qaeda, they will pretend that nobody could have
seen it coming and claim that not having Assad around anymore somehow trumps
that. They will claim that somehow having yet another Jihadist neighbor will
benefit Israel.
All those so called conservatives who follow neocon RINOs
like McCain, Graham, and King and neo-progressive warmongers like Obama, Kerry,
and Rice and support American military action in Syria
forfeit the right to express righteous indignation over what happened in Benghazi.
All those so called conservatives who think it is okay for President Obama to
violate the Constitution by unilaterally declaring war in Syria forfeit their
right to complain next time the President violates the Constitution in order to
carry out some domestic policy which they oppose—whether it be on immigration, abortion,
health care, gay rights, taxation, etc.
What could possibly go wrong? Unless you count the
likelihood of blowback against American citizens in the form of Jihadist
terrorism, then nothing. But if you support American military action against
Assad, do not pretend you did not see it coming when blowback occurs.