Congressman Matt Gaetz stuck another stick in the eye of the US war party, demanding we end our 9 year long criminal war against Syria.
What war you might ask? It’s not on the news like the US proxy war against Russia, possibly leading the world to nuclear war. That’s because US media has a self imposed blackout on this US war responsible for tens, maybe a hundred thousand of the deaths in the Syrian civil war we entered on September 22, 2014.
To depose the hated Syrian president Assad, we even gave weapons to dedicated terrorists giving them a ‘get out of war on terrorism’ card so they’d use those weapons against Assad. Sure they did.
Like every other US perpetual war, our Syrian intervention has been a colossal failure. Nine years, thousands dead, and Assad still at the wheel in Syria. Yet, the US continues to defile Syria with 900 troops guarding the Syrian oil we stole from Syria to prevent its use to rebuild the country we helped destroy. Earthquake help? Fageddaboudit.
Gaetz has introduced a War Powers Resolution to end this senseless, perpetual war charging “Congress has never authorized the use of military force in Syria. The United States is currently not in a war with or against Syria, so why are we conducting dangerous military operations there? President Biden must remove all US Armed Forces from Syria. America First means actually putting the people of our country first — not the interests of the Military Industrial Complex,”
Gaetz chastised progressive Democrats who are all in for every cockamamie, criminal US war worldwide. He called for a bipartisan antiwar coalition to end the Syrian and other US wars, saying, "This resolution will test who is truly an adherent to what I believe is America First Foreign Policy, and who continues to believe in Middle Eastern adventurism,”
Gaetz is correct on the Syrian war and need for a bipartisan antiwar coalition in Congress. Without it…we will continue to stumble down the road to worldwide war.
Walt Zlotow became involved in antiwar activities upon entering University of Chicago in 1963. He is current president of the West Suburban Peace Coalition based in the Chicago western suburbs. He blogs daily on antiwar and other issues at www.heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com.
Yes, a true antiwar hero (/s). Although he does want to increase military spending. He does want to drone terrorists anywhere we damn well please, including Syra. He wants to focus on China, not Russia. He was also for the assassination of the Irania general. He was for aid to Ukraine before he was against it. He was for Ukraine joining NATO. He thinks we should waterboard suspected “terrorists”. He doesn’t want troops in Syria but he wants war declared on ISIS. I mean. I’m all for someone, republican or democrat, to speak out against our never-ending belligerence around the world, but this guy is an assclown who is more interested in being a partisan hack than he is being truly antiwar. Unfortunately, we are so desperate that even he sounds better than most.
Beat me to it. Also, HE IS A POLITICIAN. They change positions by the millisecond.
Gaetz reminds me of John Forbes Kerry (The Living JFK). Kerry was for the Iraq War before he was against it. He was for the wars and drone strikes during the Obama Administration. Gaetz is the John Kerry of the Republican Party.