The Anti-Empire Report #141

by William Blum, at the Anti-Empire Report

Questions to ask President Obama the next time (also the last time) you’re invited to one of his press conferences:

• Which is most important to you – destroying ISIS, overthrowing Syrian president Assad, or scoring points against Russia?
• Do you think that if you pointed out to the American people that Assad has done much more to aid and rescue Christians in the Middle East conflicts than any other area leader that this would lessen the hostility the United States public and media feel toward him? Or do you share the view of the State Department spokesperson who declared in September that “The Assad regime frankly is the root of all evil”?
• Why does the United States maintain crippling financial sanctions and a ban on military aid to Syria, Cuba, Iran and other countries but not to Saudi Arabia?
• What does Saudi Arabia have to do to lose its strong American support? Increase its torture, beheadings, amputations, whippings, stonings, punishment for blasphemy and apostasy, or forced marriages and other oppression of women and girls? Increase its financial support for ISIS and other jihadist groups? Confess to its role in 9-11? Attack Israel?
• What bothers you more: The Saudi bombing of the people of Yemen or the Syrian bombing of the people of Syria?
• Does the fact that ISIS never attacks Israel raise any question in your mind?
• Does it concern you that Turkey appears to be more intent upon attacking the Kurds and the Russians than attacking ISIS? And provides medical care to wounded ISIS soldiers? Or that ISIS deals its oil on Turkish territory? Or that NATO-member Turkey has been a safe haven for terrorists from Libya, Chechnya, Qatar, and elsewhere? Or that last year Vice President Biden stated that Turkish president Erdogan’s regime was backing ISIS with “hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons”?
• If NATO had never existed, what argument could you give today in favor of creating such an institution? Other than – as some would say – being a very useful handmaiden of US foreign policy and providing American arms manufacturers with trillions of dollars of guaranteed sales.
• Does the United States plan on releasing any of its alleged evidence to back up its repeated claims of Syrian bombing and chemical warfare against the Syrian people? Like clear photos or videos from the omnipresent American satellite cameras? Or any other credible evidence?
• Does the United States plan on releasing any of its alleged evidence to back up its repeated claims of Russian invasions of Ukraine in the past year? Like clear photos or videos from the omnipresent American satellite cameras? Or any other credible evidence?
• Do the numerous connections between the Ukrainian government and neo-Nazis have any effect upon America’s support of Ukraine?
• What do you imagine would have been the outcome in World War Two if the United States had opposed Soviet entry into the war because “Stalin must go”?
• Would you prefer that Russia played no military role at all in Syria?
• Can the administration present in person a few of the Syrian opposition “moderates” we’ve heard so much about and allow the media to interview them?
• Have you considered honoring your promise of “No boots on the ground in Syria” by requiring all American troops to wear sneakers?
  

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