Off The Record

IN THE GRAND TRADITION of imperial fraud, American style, Obama will provide weapons to the Syrian rebels, many of whom are Taliban-oriented fanatics. Within our lifetimes, we’ve had the Gulf of Tonkin pretext to kick off the failed war on Vietnam; conjured weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that destroyed that society and helped bankrupt US, leaving Iraq in a permanent state of civil war; a war on Afghanistan that will return that country to the Taliban and warlords the instant we withdraw; and now we have the bogus pretext of chemical warfare to obligate US for years to people who hate US. Meanwhile, here at home, social chaos and an onrushing, full-on economic depression.