From Syria, amidst the horrific pictures of bodies, the media's persistent drumbeat for war and the carefully amoral rhetoric by U.S. officials comes a small, real, heart-wrenching reality check: A video of the moment a father finds his son, whom he thought was killed, after a chemical attack. This is the truth of what happens, notes Charles
Pierce, when "we make war in a place without going to war in a place."
There are several versions of the video. In this longer one, the child's
devastated father appears about a minute into it.
"When
you make war in a place, actual people die actual deaths. Fathers get
killed. Children get killed. School buildings and hospitals fall down
all around the people inside them. The message you are sending with your
missiles gets just a trifle muddled. Make no mistake. If we strike, we
will be making actual war in Syria. Ordinary Syrians will not see our
missiles as "bomb-o-grams," telling them with every deadly explosion
that we're really on their side. We will be another belligerent making
their daily lives brutal and deadly, and there will be enough of them to
hate us for that to guarantee that we will have to make more war in
that place, or in some other place, very soon. That is what we do now.
We make war in a place without going to war in a place, and nobody is
fooled except ourselves."
Please go here for the full article + video: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/08/28-1
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“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” ― Howard Zinn
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