Gas attack! Why does no-one ask, "Why gas people when you are wining?"
We hear and see the ‘world-wide’ response to the ‘Alleged’ chemical weapons attack on the town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, Syria; but no-one asks the obvious question:
Why gas?Why use a banned chemical weapon when you are winning? Why use the one thing which ‘some’ Western governments react to like Pavlov’s dogs? Why use chemical weaponry when America’s President Trump unleashed fifty-odd cruise missiles on a Syria/Russian air base the last time it was RUMOURED that there had been a gas attack by the Syrians?
It just doesn’t make strategic sense. President Assad is no fool, and he knows he mustn’t upset his Russian and Iranian backers and ‘friends’, mainly because his Army and his Air Force are totally dependent upon both for major war supplies. But the reports of ‘children suffering’ flood onto the news website pages of the Western world, and everyone commences talking about how soon it will be before Trump unleashes his cruise missiles once again.
So let us look at the ‘Sources’ who are bleating so loudly of the devastation. Firstly, lets check out the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Let’s check out the the so-called
‘White Helmets’ who are supposed to be involved in ‘rescuing’ the survivors.
One would give, maybe, some credibility if it; or rather him (because it is one man) was based in Beirut, or Damascus itself, or even in Turkey; but definitely in the Middle East. So where is SOHR, this formidable
One Man Intelligence organisation based? Coventry! He reckons he runs the entire operation with the help and support of 200 ‘activists’ on the ground in Syria. He’s never actually met any of them, but
‘trusts them implicitly’. Well, that’s all right then! So why do the world’s media record and recount his epistles as just short of the Gospels? Because there’s no-one stupid enough to go in and film what happens, in reality!
The White Helmets are stated as being a outfit run by volunteers; but no-one has actually seen them anywhere near an actual fight, rescuing ‘survivors’. They are supposed to have documented the gas attack on Douma, but there seem to be a few photos of small kids with tears in their eyes; but very little else. I am reminded of only one episode, documented by a blogger which was entitled
The “Wounded Boy In Orange Seat” – Another Staged “White Helmets” Stunt, where a truly epic, but unfortunately totally-staged, photograph of a small dusty, presumably traumatised, small boy went around the world.
independent Canadian
journo Eva Bartlett stated:-
“So they [the White Helmets] are not credible. The SOHR are not credible. ‘Unnamed activists’ are not credible. Once or twice maybe, but every time? Not credible. So your sources on the ground – you don’t have them. You ask why we aren’t seeing this. This relates to the other gentleman’s question about why most of the corporate media are telling lies about Syria. It’s because this is the agenda; if they had told the truth about Syria from the beginning, we wouldn’t be here now. We wouldn’t have seen so many people killed.”
I am no military man, my world’s endeavours were devoted to building things, and making them work. But military logic dictates that if you are winning, if you are beating the living shit out of an enemy who just stubbornly resists because his Sky Fairy (a.k.a. Allah) tells him to; you don’t shit on your own doorstep by dosing a couple of hundred civilians with sarin gas. There is no logic to that deadly scenario, which begs the question: who gains? Assad and the Syrian Government? Its the last thing they want! Any one of the dozen Muslim splinter groups which are supported by Qatar and the Saudis? More than likely! But is anyone pointing fingers at them? Nope, its the easy target for the New York Times, the Guardian and all the hangers-on. Excepting one. Its a strange day when
I stand alongside Jeremy Corbyn, but this time, I reckon he is right!
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