Global Research, September 19, 2013: The reckless character of the Obama administration’s war plans was
underlined by the remarks yesterday of Robert Gates, former defence
secretary to George W. Bush and Obama. Criticizing Obama’s Syria policy,
Gates declared: “My bottom line is that I believe that to blow [up] a
bunch of stuff over a couple of days, to underscore or validate a point
or a principle, is not a strategy.”
Pointing to the highly volatile situation in the region, Gates
declared that US missile strikes on Syria “would be throwing gasoline on
a very complex fire in the Middle East… Haven’t Iraq, Afghanistan and
Libya taught us something about the unintended consequences of military
action once launched?”
Yet, the Obama administration has ultimately made the same strategic
choice as the Bush administration before it—attempting to offset
American imperialism’s historic decline through the aggressive use of
military force. A decade after the invasion of Iraq, the US is preparing
a criminal new war that threatens to trigger a devastating regional
conflict, with the potential to drag in Iran, Russia and China.
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