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Apostles of a war without end
Saturday 15 December 2012
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The West stepped up its intervention in the Syrian civil war this week, with the United States formally recognising the rebel coalition as "the legitimate representative" of the Syrian people.
As with France and Britain before it this is presented as an entirely reactive step, a response to events on the ground in Syria.
The truth is rather different.
After the end of the cold war many hoped we'd be entering a new era of peace and international co-operation.
Nato could be disbanded, our nuclear weapons could go and the money saved - the so-called "peace dividend" - could be spent on alleviating poverty.
But Western rulers had other ideas. The fall of the Soviet Union left a terrible power vacuum as there was no longer any real check on Western imperialism.
Instead of peace, we've had war, war and more war.
Over the past 20 years the US and its allies have intervened militarily in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. And now they're threatening Syria and Iran.
It's a mistake to see these wars as stand-alone conflicts. They're all part of the same war - the war for total Western military and economic global domination.
Each intervention has followed a similar pattern and has been preceded by lies that would have made Goebbels proud.
Back in 1999 we were told by a certain Tony Blair that we simply had to intervene in Kosovo because Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was "set on a Hitler-style genocide equivalent to the extermination of the Jews during World War II."
It wasn't true. In fact a low-level conflict was bubbling away in Yugoslavia between the Western-backed Kosovo Liberation Army terror organisation and government forces.
It was a conflict purposely stoked up by the West to provide a pretext for military assault and the final dismemberment of Yugoslavia.
In the words of George Kenney, an official at the US State Department's Yugoslav office, "in post-cold war Europe no place remained for a large, independent-minded socialist state that resisted globalisation."
In 2001 we were told we had to attack Afghanistan because the government there was hiding Osama bin Laden.
But plans to attack the Taliban had already been made before the September 11 attacks.
In 2003 we were told - once again by Blair - that we had to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that "could be activated within 45 minutes."
