Does Strike on Syria Justify Bombing Saudi Arabia Over Yemen?

georgephillip said:

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labor Party, believes the "legally questionable" missile strike against Assad could be used to justify bombing Saudi Arabia over its war crimes in Yemen?

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/Comment/2017/3/28/Information-denied-British-complicity-with-war-crimes-in-Yemen

"Does, for example, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen entitle other countries do arrogate themselves the right to bomb Saudi airfields or their positions in Yemen, especially given their use of banned cluster bombs and white phosphorous?..."

"Three United Nations agencies said in January that Yemen was the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. So will the Prime Minister today commit to ending support to the Saudi bombing campaign and arms sales to Saudi Arabia?..."

"This statement serves as a reminder that the prime minister is accountable to this Parliament, not to the whims of the U.S. president."

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:21617:Corbyn:-Does-Strike-on-Syria-Justify-Bombing-Saudi-Arabia-over-Yemen?

Macron, May, and Trump all have good domestic reasons for distracting their public's attention with wag-the-dog war crimes in Syria while their swamps continue to profit from mass murder in Yemen.

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Montecresto said:

Yep, let’s see what kind of attention this gets. Probably best ignored as it’s kind of difficult to justify committing military force against Syria while turning a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s same and worse behavior.

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georgephillip said:

Perhaps were about to find out if having a bad plan for Syria is any worse than having no plan for Syria?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/politics/us-syria-briefing-trump/index.html

"Lawmakers emerged from a classified administration briefing on Tuesday expressing concern about administration policy on Syria and the legal justification for last week's military strikes against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

"'I am very unnerved by what I'm hearing and seeing,' said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, who said the briefing on the strikes from, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, made him more worried, not less.

"The administration is 'going down a dangerous path' with regards to Syria, he said, without offering details."

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Montecresto said:

Well I wish he would offer details!!!

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georgephillip said:

Be careful what you ask for

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georgephillip said:

Considering Graham's vote on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, it's hard to believe anyone finds his opinion on the nature of global affairs in the 21st century to be worth listening to.

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Montecresto said:

So Graham thinks that we should sacrifice American blood to save Syrian blood. I’m not buying this. I already know what the real and alterior motive in staying in Syria is. Continued effort in what the US has been trying to do since 1947 in Syria

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georgephillip said:

There appears to be a plan for "Greater Israel" that dates to the 1980s and an Israeli thinker named Oded Yinon:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

"'Greater Israel' requires the breaking up of the existing Arab states into small states.

“The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states.

"Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state.

"'Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation… This is not a new idea, nor does it surface for the first time in Zionist strategic thinking. Indeed, fragmenting all Arab states into smaller units has been a recurrent theme.' (Yinon Plan, see below)

"Viewed in this context, the war on Syria and Iraq is part of the process of Israeli territorial expansion"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan

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Raoul_Luke said:

Then someone at the door, a “White Helmet”, shouted “Gas!”, and a panic began. People started throwing water over each other. Yes, the video was filmed here, it is genuine, but what you see are people suffering from hypoxia – not gas poisoning.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...uma-robert-fisk-ghouta-damascus-a8307726.html

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georgephillip said:

Your link:

"How could it be that Douma refugees who had reached camps in Turkey were already describing a gas attack which no-one in Douma today seemed to recall?

"It did occur to me, once I was walking for more than a mile through these wretched prisoner-groined tunnels, that the citizens of Douma lived so isolated from each other for so long that 'news' in our sense of the word simply had no meaning to them.

"Syria doesn’t cut it as Jeffersonian democracy – as I cynically like to tell my Arab colleagues – and it is indeed a ruthless dictatorship, but that couldn’t cow these people, happy to see foreigners among them, from reacting with a few words of truth.

"So what were they telling me?

Think it can't get worse?

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:21626:Infamous-Mercenary-Erik-Prince-Being-Considered-to-Build-Trump's-Foreign-Army-for-Syria

"Infamous Mercenary Erik Prince Being Considered to Build Trump's Foreign Army for Syria

"Trump is asking Middle Eastern governments to build a military force to replace US troops in northeast Syria, and notorious war profiteer Erik Prince has been asked for help. Medea Benjamin says the plan is scandalous."

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Montecresto said:

Interesting. It would seem to me that Syria, Russia and Iran could handle security going forward. Why do we need BlackWater or anyone else in their.

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EatTheRich said:

Use of private mercenaries should be outlawed.

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