Syria Is 7th (Muslim) Country Bombed By 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

By Tyler Durden
Created 09/23/2014 - 12:17
Authored by Glenn Greenwald, originally posted at The Intercept [6],
The U.S. today began bombing [7] targets inside Syria, in concert with its lovely and
inspiring group of five allied regimes: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates,
Qatar, and Jordan.
That means that Syria becomes the 7th predominantly Muslim country bombed
by the 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate after Afghanistan [8], Pakistan [9], Yemen [10],
Somalia [11], Libya [12] and Iraq [13].
The utter lack of interest in what possible legal authority Obama has to bomb Syria is
telling indeed: empires bomb who they want, when they want, for whatever reason
(indeed, recall that Obama bombed Libya even after Congress explicitly voted against
[14] authorization to use force, and very few people seemed to mind that abject act of
lawlessness; constitutional constraints are not for warriors and emperors).
It was just over a year ago that Obama officials were insisting [15] that bombing
and attacking Assad was a moral and strategic imperative. Instead, Obama is now
bombing Assads enemies while politely informing his regime [16] of its targets in
advance. It seems irrelevant on whom the U.S. wages war; what matters it that it be at
war, always and forever [17].
Six weeks of bombing hasnt budged ISIS in Iraq [18], but it has caused ISIS
recruitment to soar [19]. Thats all predictable: the U.S. has known for years [20] that
what fuels and strengthens anti-American sentiment (and thus anti-American
extremism) is exactly what they keep doing: aggression in that region. If you know that,
then they know that. At this point, its more rational to say they do all of this not despite
triggering those outcomes, but because of it. Continuously creating and strengthening
enemies is a feature, not a bug, as it is what then justifies the ongoing greasing of the
profitable and power-vesting machine of Endless War.
If there is anyone who actually believes that the point of all of this is a moral crusade to
vanquish the evil-doers of ISIS (as the U.S. fights alongside its close Saudi friends),
please read Professor Asad AbuKhalils explanation today [21] of how Syria is a multi-
tiered proxy war. As the disastrous Libya intervention should conclusively and
permanently demonstrate, the U.S. does not bomb countries for humanitarian
objectives. Humanitarianism is the pretense, not the purpose [22].