Caesar Photos: Torture & Impunity In Syria, Israel & The US

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Headlines in Western media reported that “new evidence supports claims about Syrian state detention deaths.” The Guardian added that “a leading rights group has released new evidence that up to 7,000 Syrians who died in state detention centres were tortured, mistreated, or executed” and, noting that this information is a moral wake-up call, demanded that officials being held to account should be “central to peace efforts.”

However, as is usually so, not everything is quite as it seems. So let’s take a look at the facts.

First the timing.

As has become commonplace, the timing of reports like these almost always coincide with important diplomatic meetings or just after important UN resolutions are passed.

Syria And Imperial Deceit: The Lies Change But The Murder Never Stops

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As the old phrase goes, “Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity.”

Once again our imperial elites are “making the case” to utilize instruments of death and destruction against a country thousands of miles away that has not attacked us. In order, we are told, to bring about more peace and less death.

Let us ponder that logic once more. Western powers — who are already steeped in historical and contemporary blood-letting of monstrous magnitude — are once again trying to justify their latest illegal imperial venture in noble terms: of military necessity and moral superiority.

Putin’s Question, Syria And The Future Of The Middle East

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Many sour-grape-ish commentators say that Russia is entering a “quagmire” in Syria like the USA did in Vietnam and Iraq. I beg to disagree. Syria’s army is nothing like the “client armies” of South Vietnam or Afghanistan.

Assad’s Alawite community, a minority which controls the Syrian army and state, are literally fighting for their lives, because if they lose to the radicals of the Sunni majority, they will, minimally, be ethnically cleansed and quite possibly, (if ISIS stays true to form) be literally “put to the sword” …

So given superior (Russian/Iranian) leadership, air-support, equipment, intelligence, etc, they can be counted on as a motivated, effective force. They are joined by Hezbollah, the only military force in the world that has ever defeated Israel on the battlefield, and by elements of the crack Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

I think that given this support, they and their allies should be able to quickly roll back the al-Nusra Front of al-Qaida favored by the Arab powers and the ragtag “moderates” that Washington favors … before turning their attention to the ISIS.

What has Putin achieved by this?

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