Well said John. This not about left/right arguments but finally admitting the truth.

See the scientific evidence of 911 that points to an inside job. http://www.ae911truth.org/ No concrete/steel buildings in human history have fallen at near fee fall speeds in their own foot prints due to fire or structural failure Some how the laws of physics were suspended on 911.

Yet another raving from the far side.

John Pilger is quite happy for people to be gassed as long as those nasty democracies don't do it.

Publishing this excellent article is a tribute to OLO!

Pilger says, "I have seen generations of young children with their familiar, monstrous deformities. John Kerry, with his own blood-soaked war record, will remember them. I have seen them in Iraq, too, where the US used depleted uranium and white phosphorous, as did the Israelis in Gaza, raining it down on UN schools and hospitals. No Obama "red line" for them. No showdown psychodrama for them."

The hypocrisy of the West in general and the U.S. in particular is exposed by John Pilger in this touching paragraph!

Warmongers have no conscience! None.

Al Qa'ida as an ally of the US ? I think Pilger has finally gone around the bend. We'll see, but I suspect part of the problem in Syria is that, for all his vile crimes, Assad - the US knows - is the guy they will have to deal with, precisely to crush al Qa'ida, in order to give the Left-democratic-liberal forces some role. It's a vile and nasty world sometimes.

Perhaps underlying all of this is the uncomfortable proposition that Islam must be thoroughly interrogated, i.e. Muslims must eventually get around to doing what Christians in Western Europe had to do, messily, five or more hundred years ago, and question the relation between state and 'church', between those in power and those 'under' them.

That may be difficult with a religion which claims that its Word is the exact Word of their god and therefore cannot, in any circumstances, be altered in any way. i.e. that 'church' and state SHOULD be one, and that the power of those above, with the Word, must forever rule over those below.

But that's for them to work out. Pity the poor children who are going to be obliterated in the process. Not that Pilger would worry, unless somehow he could blame the Yanks.

Joe

Without any other nation offering a counterbalance, over the past two decades the US has assumed the role of "world policeman" and "the indispensable nation". In so doing it has undermined itself and brought the world to the brink of a unilateral domination. This emerging domination will ultimately benefit no-one. That's in the nature of unilateralism.
The world of Islam has been its chosen field of endeavour, and is there any doubt as to how well they have succeeded? Throughout the Islamic Crescent, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa to the Indus Valley in Pakistan, very few independent states remain. Those that do are in the firing line.
Now for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, the world has a chance to pull the US back from this hubristic over-reach. I see a chance emerging out of this wholly prefabricated crisis in Syria. If Assad can be persuaded to put his chemical weapons under international supervision, and if that supervision is overseen by Russia and China, then we may see the counterbalance missing in international affairs for just over two decades.
Two big if's. And one big chance.

Halduell, great comment! Why is it that so few people on OLO grasp the reality that America poses should it gain global domination?

I am glad that at least a few commenters are like you and I: people who can connect the dots, think outside the square, and dismiss entirely the duplicitous propaganda that spews endlessly out of the capitalist cesspool!