Chris Hedges: War Is Betrayal. We condition the poor and the working class to go to war. We promise them honor, status, glory, and adventure. We promise boys they will become men. We hold these promises up against the dead-end jobs of small-town life, the financial dislocations, credit card debt, bad marriages, lack of health insurance, and dread of unemployment. The military is the call of the Sirens, the enticement that has for generations seduced young Americans working in fast food restaurants or behind the counters of Walmarts to fight and die for war profiteers and elites. The poor embrace the military because every other cul-de-sac in their lives breaks their spirit and their dignity. I saw this in my own family. Those I knew in prep school did not seek out the military and were not sought by it. He was not alone. The myth of war held fast, despite the deep bitterness of my grandmother—who acidly denounced what war had done to her only son—and of others like her.
“I didn’t really do well in classes,” he says. Syria: Washington’s Latest War Crime. Paul Craig RobertsActivist Post One wonders what Syrians are thinking, as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya. Libya, under Gaddafi a well-run country whose oil revenues were shared with the Libyan people instead of monopolized by a princely class as in Saudi Arabia, now has no government and is in disarray with contending factions vying for power. Just as no one knew who the Libyan “rebels” were, with elements of al Qaeda reportedly among them, no one knows who the Syrian “rebels” are, or indeed if they are even rebels (Antiwar.com). Some “rebels” appear to be bandit groups who seize the opportunity to loot and to rape and set themselves up as the governments of villages and towns.
Others appear to be al Qaeda. (Antiwar.com) The fact that the “rebels” are armed is an indication of interference from outside. Obama has not said why his government is so desperate to overthrow the Syrian government. Indeed, Washington does. “From the Arab Spring to Athens, From Occupy Wall Street to Moscow”: Regional Accents and the Rhetorical Cartography of Power - Rhetoric Society Quarterly - Volume 42, Issue 3. Syria: Neoliberal Reforms in Health Sect Financing: Embedding Unequal Access?
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