If what witnesses are saying in the last-linked article below is true, then we need to ask ourselves: Is the US top leadership deliberately attempting to destroy what is left of our prestige and our respect among nations? Or do they still believe implicitly that our firepower is a viable substitute for brain power -- in the form of diplomacy and sensible, moral relations with other countries?
The author posits that the current administration just hates Muslims, based on Trump's statements in this regard.
It is MUCH worse than that.
The US government has for decades supported the SUNNI Saudis and their violent, intolerant Wahhabi sect while making the absolutely false claim that SHIITE Iran, the much less intolerant, less violent regime, is the worst terror supporter in the world -- simply because the US wishes at all costs to maintain good ties with Israel and Saudi Arabia. The petrodollar is one reason for this seemingly irrational policy (http://laiglesforum.com/how-
Like the author, I have also had the general impression that the following was true:
What is also there to be witnessed is that the same western world that always held Russia to be morally inferior to the ideals of the Enlightenment, part of “the primitive and cruel East”, have fared infinitely more inhumane and cruel in its conduct of warfare under very similar circumstances. The Russian method displayed in the Aleppo offensive was one that regarded avoidance of civilian suffering as the driving factor in its formation. Humanitarian corridors were formed with aid and shelter also being provided in some areas. It took months of meticulous planning and coordination with local partners, and even with the rebels to guarantee their and their families’ safe passage. It was a diplomatic and humanitarian master class of an act. Carpet-bombing of Aleppo would have been a rather easier choice. But the “primitive and cruel” Easterner had a soul after all.
http://thesaker.is/the-mosul-
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