{"id":150,"date":"2013-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/08\/30\/post-143-punish-the-homicidal-syrian-maniac-war-war\/"},"modified":"2013-08-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T00:00:00","slug":"post-143-punish-the-homicidal-syrian-maniac-war-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/30\/post-143-punish-the-homicidal-syrian-maniac-war-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-143: Punish the Homicidal (Syrian) Maniac! War! War!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”<\/em><\/strong><\/font>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/font>—<\/em>Orwell<\/font>
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\nThe U.S. Must Act Against Assad<\/strong><\/a><\/font> by Eugene Robinson\n<\/div>\n

President Obama has to punish Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad\u2019s homicidal regime with a military strike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/span>\"Picture\"<\/a>Eugene Robinson<\/font><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

The editorial by this man Robinson (“Punish the homicidal maniac!”<\/em> ) is just the same as one reproduced this week by the Korea Herald<\/em>, written by none other than Tony Blair. The latter seems to call for an Iraq-style invasion\/occupation of Syria. <\/span>The editorial was titled “It is time to take action in the Middle East<\/a>“.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

<\/span>This really is, face it, “warmongering”, strictly.\u00a0 \n<\/div>\n

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Both men assure the reader that toppling Syria’s government would be an act of self-defense. In so doing, they nestle themselves snugly into Orwell’s mold of the hypothetical pushers of “every war”, of course.<\/p>\n

Blair’s final sentences:<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

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They have to be defeated. We should defeat them, however long it takes, because otherwise they will not disappear. They will grow stronger, until we will reach another crossroads; at that point, there will be no choice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This all makes me a bit dizzy. Blair seems to be talking about Radical Muslims, but isn’t the Syrian government sort of an Arab Fascist government? I mean, if “fascist” were not a pure pejorative (Orwell wrote an essay on the uselessness of the word “fascist” by the 1940s in English since English already has the word “bad”, I think is what he wrote). Syria’s government is not Radical-Islamic, and is actually trying to kill Radical Muslims on a daily basis, in this war.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”\u00a0\u00a0 —Orwell The U.S. Must Act Against Assad by Eugene Robinson President Obama has to punish Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad\u2019s homicidal regime with a military strike. Eugene Robinson The editorial by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}