Some initial personal reactions to today’s missile strikes on Syria
I woke up to the breaking news that the US, UK and
France had launched missile attacks against Syria. I have not yet read the
alternative news sites, so no doubt there will be more information and comments
later.
For now, here are 9 questions I would like
considered and answered.
1. Why did the US, UK, & France launch missile
strikes against Syria with such haste, even before the OPCW had conducted its
investigation at the site of the alleged chemical attack, and before the
results and evidence were published?
2. Why is only the Syrian government always blamed for
alleged chemical attacks, without actual evidence, and which they deny, while the
more likely possibility that it was carried out by the anti-Syria terrorists,
who have both the means and the motive to do so, is always completely ignored?
3. How credible is the claim of the US, UK and France
that they only targeted their missile strikes specifically at Syrian facilities
allegedly involved with chemical weapons manufacture and storage, and not at other
unrelated Syrian infrastructure?
4. Why have political leaders and Western media conveniently
forgotten that in 2014 the Syrian government destroyed its
stocks of chemical weapons, in a deal brokered by Russia and with the active
participation of the US government, under the supervision of the Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)? US Secretary of State at the
time, John Kerry, acknowledged that Syrian chemical stocks had been verifiably
destroyed. Syria joined the OPCW.
5. If the US, UK and France knew that such chemical
weapons sites existed, and their precise locations, why did they not report
these violations to the OPCW, and demand that the sites be inspected? Is that not
their legal obligation?
6. There are now reports that ISIS has taken advantage
of the missile strikes to launch attacks on Syria, as they have done in the
past. Is this further evidence of the long history of collusion between the
US-led coalition and various foreign-supported terrorist groups seeking illegal
‘regime change’ in Syria?
7. The US-led coalition has stated that there will be
more missile attacks if they believe that the Syrian government uses chemical
weapons in the future, presumably even without actual verified evidence. Is
this not an open invitation for Islamist terrorists to stage more “false flag”
chemical attacks, precisely to provoke more foreign aggression against Syria’s
secular government?
8. Why did the US, UK and France launch missile
attacks against Syria without legal authorization from the United Nations or even
their own parliaments, when they were not under threat of attack by Syria? Is
this not an illegal act of aggression, the ultimate war crime, as recognized by
the UN Charter and Nuremberg?
9. In the case of the horrible war against Syria, why
has the Western news media consistently reinforced the official government
narratives, acting as cheer leaders for war, instead of actually doing serious
investigative journalism, and seeking truth and a peaceful resolution to the
conflict?
Bruce McPhie
April 14,2018
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