What's with the fricking rush to war? Did the Kaiser and von Moltke request it? Maybe Clemenceau?
Syria will still be there in a month or two, and so will its civil war. Our "pro-western" heroes in the al-Nusra Front will still stand tall in the Euphrates Valley that they traversed from Iraq as members of our allied "Great Sunni Awakening".
So why don't we take a couple months to find out what the facts of the chemical attack were? Little matters like who carried it out, that simply are foreclosed from discussion in the US media and political class.
Who benefits by a rush to war? (Besides Raytheon, that sees its stock price going through the roof*)Does it bring us greater understanding? Just imagine that instead of threatening the UN inspectors with being killed by our bombs, our first response had been to protect and assist the inspectors in doing their jobs and getting the facts right. Is there some reason the rush to war crowd thinks it's a wise idea to threaten the UN inspectors and keep them from effectively doing their jobs? Is there something to hide, perhaps? I can see no other reason if we're all so certain of the unimpeachable nature of the Israeli "intelligence product" being used to drive this rush to war.
And just why is it that the only SIGINT intercept being rolled out comes from Mossad? Is the US intelligence agency that should be carrying out such functions distracted from its primary duties by other tasks its been given? Or is there no NATO corroboration of the Israeli "intelligence" because there were no such communications to be captured in the first place?
Rush to war, and we never get those answers, just lots of talk in the quagmire about how "now is not the time to point fingers." Except those of us that want to take the time to get this right? We're getting that finger all right. Rush to war and all you get is August 1914. Hitler and his minions have been hopelessly overplayed. World War I is much more the norm of how war consumes everything, and there would have been no WWI without, yes, that rush to war that's being demanded of us today.
*Brings to mind the Fear song, "Let's Have a War" with its line "Let's have a war! Jack up the Dow Jones!"
"Let's Have a War, sell the rights to the networks!"