
"WASHINGTON --
A U.S.-led attack on Syria without United Nations support would be a war crime regardless of congressional approval, Noam Chomsky, the antiwar activist and author, said in response to President Barack Obama's announcement that he would seek Hill approval.
"'As international support for Obamas decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world,' Chomsky told HuffPost in an email.
"Chomsky recently traveled to the region to learn more about the Syria crisis, and his comments there led some to believe he was open to military intervention if negotiations failed to produce peace. 'I believe you should choose the negotiating track first, and should you fail, then moving to the second option" -- backing the rebels -- "becomes more acceptable,' he said."
Noam Chomsky Weighs In On Syria Strike
I heard an interesting summary of the situation last night: we are going to kill Syrians in order to persuade Syrians not to kill other Syrians.
Iraqis, Libyan, Syrians and Lebanese and Persians were and are all highly susceptible to balkanization:
"The following are important excerpts and passages from former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinskis book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geo-strategic Imperatives.
"Brzezinski also states that both Turkey and Iran, the two most powerful states of the 'Eurasian Balkans,' located on its southern tier, are 'potentially vulnerable to internal ethnic conflicts [balkanization],' and that, '
If either or both of them were to be destabilized, the internal problems of the region would become unmanageable.'10
"It seems that a divided and balkanized Iraq would be the best means of accomplishing this.
"Taking what we know from the White Houses own admissions; there is a belief that 'creative destruction and chaos' in the Middle East are beneficial assets to reshaping the Middle East, creating the 'New Middle East,' and furthering the Anglo-American roadmap in the Middle East and Central Asia:
"In Europe, the Word 'Balkans' conjures up images of ethnic conflicts and great-power regional rivalries.
"Eurasia, too, has its 'Balkans,' but the Eurasian Balkans are much larger, more populated, even more religiously and ethnically heterogenous.
"They are located within that large geographic oblong that demarcates the central zone of global instability (
) that embraces portions of southeastern Europe, Central Asia and parts of South Asia [Pakistan, Kashmir, Western India], the Persian Gulf area, and the Middle East."
Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a ?New Middle East? | Global Research
28 July 2014 will mark the one hundred year anniversary of the beginning of the War to End All Wars. Maybe Obama will provide its conclusion?