Hawks are driving foreign policy

Nov 11, 2015 2 min read

To the editor:

So today the White House sent troops to Syria and Iraq. Let me guess, the Pentagon will not give the Russian bombers information on the location of the deployment. Americans who will obviously be embedded with rebels that are attempting to overthrow Syria’s current president. Let me further suggests that the United States has no legal right whatsoever to conducting air war let alone put troops on the ground in Syria. What’s going to be the consequence?

In my opinion, American troops are going to get killed and the morons in Washington will blame it on the Russian pilots – who, I must say, have brought more success in Syria in 30 days than American bombing has over a year. (The reason for that is that the Americans have never concentrated on defeating Isis, they were there for the same reasons they invaded country after country in the past, that is to overthrow the current government and put in the puppet that supports the American way.)

After American troops are killed the American media will stand toe to toe with the White House and the Pentagon blaming the killing of American troops on Russia. Which, of course, is meant to escalate the conflict as only America can.

I feel somewhat responsible for I voted for this so-called Commander-in-Chief on two occasions. I now look at those occasions as being the worst decisions I have ever made. This president has done whatever the war hawks have told him to do. He has no leadership ability whatsoever. What he does have is a quick smile and a master of distributing rhetoric.

This deployment of American troops is not going to turn out well; let’s just hope it doesn’t contribute to a much broader escalations. But when and if it does, remember in the last 30 years America has bombed 30 different countries, Russia bombed one, China bombed none. We are the war makers. Unfortunately, we do not have a responsible media any longer to explain to the citizens. We have a corporate media in bed with a paranoid government.

Gary Giebels

Cape Coral