Getting embarrassing - Syria, the long haul

[Juan]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:51:13 -0700
Shelley <shelley at misanthropia.org> wrote:

> On October 28, 2015 6:15:39 PM Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > This is getting embarrassing for "the West" - the so called moral
> > high ground of the West, never existed. Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki
> > were bombed -after- Japan had surrendered, just that America
> > insisted on humiliation of unconditional surrender.
> 
> You're absolutely right.  We USians (or Americunts, as Juan says,
> which always makes me laugh in agreement),


	disclaimer of sorts : I don't mean to offend *all* americans.
	Only the nationalistic type =P  (and I fully realize Shelley
	doesn't belong in that category)


> only have propaganda
> "textbooks" in school.  It's not unless/until we are fortunate enough
> to stumble upon Howard Zinn's books or develop critical thinking
> skills, despite their best efforts at indoctrination, that we truly
> see.


	for what it's worth, when I first got interested in political
	philosophy, I foolishly assumed that the US were a 'free
	society'. It took me a while to gauge the distance between
	libertarian rhetoric and reality...


> 
> > http://russia-insider.com/en/documents-reveal-west-plotted-false-flag-justify-war-against-syria-1957/ri10799
> > "
> > In 1957, it was PG-13 “border clashes”. Now we have “government
> > chemical weapons attacks against orphans”
> > "
> >
> > I wonder where our CIA apologists are now ...
> > Z
> >
> 
> I'm not sure how seriously to take Russia-insider as I haven't looked
> into it enough, but this would hardly be surprising.  They were still
> on a roll from taking out the democratically elected leader of Iran,
> Mossadeq, in 1953.  How many years was it before this was common
> knowledge?
> 
> It's despicable.  Now, as then.
> 
> (I don't often comment on politics.  Feeling sassy tonight, I guess.
> Heh.)
> 
> -S
> 
>