Puzzled by U.S. policy on Syria? Think Israel.
Ray talks with Regis Tremblay about Obama’s “red line” and the chemical attack outside Damascus on August 21, 2013; how Obama now brags about singlehandedly thwarting the (pretty obvious) attempt to mousetrap him into launching “shock and awe” on Syria; and how the outraged neocons, cheated out of the war for which they had been lusting, moved quickly to administer “payback” to Putin for pulling Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire. Payback? Think the coup in Kiev just six months later.
Ukraine is the subject of installment #3 of Summer Viewing. Please check back tomorrow.
The stream of events of late August – early Sept. 2013 remains among the most bizarre that Ray has witnessed in over 50 years in Washington. He relates how, on one key occasion, he witnessed some of it personally.
Sadly, very few folks are aware of how it all went down (the culprit, as usual, the corporate media). But the result – like no new war of aggression AND the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons – is one of the very few things that came out (relatively) well. Odd that Obama chooses to brag to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg about the President’s having to face down ALL his advisers (except, as is clear, Vladimir Putin!). And you are wondering, maybe, why the neocons hate Putin so much?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnITcUQiK1Y
(32 minutes)