Yeah, the missiles are about to start flying again and the U.S. Armament Manufacturers and their shareholders, and intellectually-compromised people like Spindog and Shadow Monster, are happy again.

Of course, the thinkers who have the wit to see where all this is heading (hint: nuclear war) are very concerned. They don't see war as entertainment or as a noble boost to the stock markets of the world. They see it as proof that humans, in the main, are barbarians!

What a shame that morons are in the majority in most societies!

Hi spindoc

To get a handle on the coming attack Googling - Syria Washington Post - probably provides a fair idea .

To disable the S-300 SAMs and other initial targets in Syria the US, France and maybe Israel might use stealthy missiles, stealthy flight profiles, stealthy jets and cyber weapons simultaneously in the first 10 minutes.

Most air bases in Syria (some defended by S-300s) will be targets of cyber weapons (malware on steroids) and maybe cruise missiles.

On targeting see
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/world/middleeast/obama-syria-strike.html?hp&_r=1& :

"The attacks, which are expected to involve scores of Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from American destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, would not be focused on chemical weapons storage sites, which would risk an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe and could open up the sites to raids by militants, officials said.

The strikes would instead be aimed at military units that have carried out chemical attacks, the headquarters overseeing the effort and the rockets and artillery that have launched the attacks, according to the options being reviewed within the administration.

An American official said that the initial target lists included fewer than 50 sites, including air bases where Syria’s Russian-made attack helicopters are deployed. The list includes command and control centers as well as a variety of conventional military targets."

As expected the US is building up a case aimed at US politicians and public for an attack soon.

Pete

God, I hope you're right, Pete :)

OR:

1. Dictatorships should be able to use chemical weapons on their own people with impunity. Nobody else should intervene. The world should stand idly by.

2. Any effort to defend defenseless people should be interpreted as colonialist/capitalist/US aggression.

3. And yet, is the US going to be so spineless that it won't come to the aid of defenceless people, because there is nothing in it for them ? Like Rwanda ?

So do we have one of those ideal situations - for the extreme-right whingers- in which the US is damned whatever it does, action or no-action ? Serve the b@stards right !

Isn't it fun to exploit situations thrown up by the massacre of innocent people ? And to watch the US squirm - what to do, what to do ? Yuck, yuck !

Joe

Pete, I read you comment above carefully. There is not a shred of criticism in it.

Surely you're not applauding the approaching slaughter in Syria by the imperial nation that has killed millions since WW2 using bombs, missiles, Agent Orange, napalm, depleted uranium, white phosphorous, etc, are you?

David G.

I don't trust any governments particularly great powers be they Russia, the US or China. I trust aid bodies more even if their findings can only reach a mass audience via governments.

Here's something you're sure to condemn ie. something happening in the Syrian Civil War:

"Three hospitals in the Damascus area received approximately 3,600 patients displaying symptoms consistent with nerve agent exposure in less than three hours on the morning of August 21, according to a highly credible international humanitarian organization.

The reported symptoms, and the epidemiological pattern of events – characterized by the massive influx of patients in a short period of time, the origin of the patients, and the contamination of medical and first aid workers – were consistent with mass exposure to a nerve agent. We also received reports from international and Syrian medical personnel on the ground.

We have identified one hundred videos attributed to the attack, many of which show large numbers of bodies exhibiting physical signs consistent with, but not unique to, nerve agent exposure. The reported symptoms of victims included unconsciousness, foaming from the nose and mouth, constricted pupils, rapid heartbeat, and difficulty breathing.

Several of the videos show what appear to be numerous fatalities with no visible injuries, which is consistent with death from chemical weapons, and inconsistent with death from small-arms, high-explosive munitions or blister agents. At least 12 locations are portrayed in the publicly available videos, and a sampling of those videos confirmed that some were shot at the general times and locations described in the footage."

Regards

Pete

Ever thought about finding out whether the Syrian government actually gassed its citizens, given the well-established Yank form at the practice of FFCB, or False-Flag Causus Belli? Would it have been better if the Coalition of the Lying hadn't rushed into attacking Iraq in great haste to get in before the risk of UN inspectors blowing their FFCB story out? Ever stopped to wonder why the Yanks are in such a hurry to get the bombs flying at Syrian homes before the current inspectors report and the reports are subjected to real scrutiny?

Hurry-hurry-hurry! Where has that been heard before? Oh I know - Schnell-schnell-schnell!

Still, it must sound a lot more macho and "real" to call for a hanging whether the defendant did it or not, given the seriousness of the crime he's accused of. What is a real pity is that the executioners of few hundred thousand brown people will never be made to pay with their lives (as at Nuremberg) for the crime of aggression if it is shown later, as in the Iraq aggression, that they'd been lying their heads off.