Bombing for peace is like f*cking for virginity

 There is always “a case” for “war”. Which basically translates to there is always deceit and propaganda to mask murder for strategic self-interest. The lies used to justify illegal state murder of human beings in foreign lands always sounds noble. The rationale this time sounds so reasonable. It always sounds so necessary; so justified; so urgent. But the reality of the despair and death they bring are anything but noble. They are monstrous and barbaric.

Let us ponder that logic once more. Western powers — who are already steeped in historical and contemporary blood-letting of monstrous magnitude — are once again trying to justify their latest illegal imperial venture in noble terms: of military necessity and moral superiority. And that we — who have no right to interfere in another country — will bring less murder and destruction through engaging in more murder and destruction. Even though a year of such apparent bombing in Iraq and Syria has not only not brought peace, it has made the situation worse, and had no impact on ISIS. In fact they now have more weapons, more money and more territory.

Perhaps the goal is not to attack ISIS but is to illegally remove Assad. That in fact ‘we’ have facilitated directly and indirectly — through arming, training, funding, buying oil from, giving political support to — the very head-chopping takfiri fanatics we proclaim to be against, because it is strategically expedient. Indeed we support the very Salafist fundamentalists we are supposedly in a civilisational war against!

Adapted and abridged from an article by Sequoyah De SouzaVigneswaren