{"id":306289,"date":"2017-05-02T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=306289"},"modified":"2017-05-03T18:11:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:11:01","slug":"bigoted-americans-far-supportive-war-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bigoted-americans-far-supportive-war-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigoted Americans Far More Supportive of War Against Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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On April 23rd, the U.S. mega-corporate and government-funded National Public Radio network, NPR, interviewed voters about their views on President Trump\u2019s achievements so far; and a typical respondent, the 33-year-old Jamie Ruppert, of White Haven, Pennsylvania, said, “I don’t think he’s been terrible. I mean, he definitely stepped up when the people of Syria kind of needed some help.\u201d<\/span><\/a> She was referring actually to this<\/span><\/a>, though she wasn\u2019t even aware of it; she believed instead the U.S. government\u2019s lies about Syria\u2019s government<\/span><\/a>, just like the Americans who had supported the lies that produced the destruction of Iraq<\/span><\/a> by the psychopathic American government<\/span><\/a> had done, back then in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Polls show that highly prejudiced (i.e., misinformed<\/span><\/a>) Americans tend to be especially supportive of the jihadists\u2019 war to overthrow and replace Syria\u2019s secular Russian-backed government. (The jihadists in Syria are backed by the U.S. government, which however opposes ISIS jihadists, which are too extreme for even the rulers of Saudi Arabia to trust. But the U.S. and Saudi governments have been backing in Syria every jihadist group that accepts Al Qaeda\u2019s leadership<\/span><\/a>, because Al Qaeda was created to hate Russia<\/span><\/a>, which fact was even captured on video at the time<\/span><\/a>, but is effectively denied by U.S. \u2018news\u2019media, after-the-fact, and America\u2019s \u2018history\u2019-books also generally hide the actual cause of what today\u2019s U.S. President refers to as \u201cradical Islamic terrorism,\u201d a joint U.S.-Saudi operation<\/span><\/a>. Such realities would be called \u2018fake news\u2019 by America\u2019s \u2018news\u2019media, if they reported these truths at all, which their censors or \u2018editors\u2019 occasionally do \u2014 they occasionally slip-up, and allow such facts through, and some reporters and \u2018news\u2019room managers even lose their jobs<\/span><\/a> for doing<\/span><\/a> that.)<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, the polls by ABC News and Washington Post<\/i> have indicated that whereas Republicans strongly opposed the Democratic President, Barack Obama\u2019s, bombing of Syria as a U.S. response to the U.S.-backed jihadists\u2019 sarin gas attack in 2013<\/span><\/a>, which the U.S. blamed against Bashar al-Assad’s government (and Britain\u2019s MI6 found that Obama was lying, so UK refused to join Obama\u2019s planned invasion, and it was called-off<\/span><\/a>), the similar but fully executed American bombing of Syria for a similar set-up-job jihadist-produced gas-attack in Syria, occurring now under the Republican President Donald Trump<\/span><\/a>, is overwhelmingly supported by Republicans<\/i>, and mildly opposed by Democrats<\/i> \u2014 indeed, “The sharpest change has been among Republicans, among whom 22 percent supported missile strikes [in 2013] compared with 86 percent today.\u201d<\/span><\/a> By contrast, among Democrats today, \u201c37 percent support, while 59 percent are opposed,\u201d to the Republican Trump\u2019s bombing of Syria on April 7th. So: Party-affiliation is a big determinant of whether a given American citizen favors an American invasion of a foreign country. (America\u2019s \u2018independent\u2019 voters tend to be between the two types of prejudice, but a few of them are simply unprejudiced. However, even a few Republicans and Democrats are also unprejudiced.) <\/span><\/p>\n

The ABC-WP<\/i> poll also found that (partly because of the incessant U.S. propaganda against Assad, in media such as NYT, WP,<\/i> ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, The Atlantic<\/i>, etc.) there has been a great increase in the percentage of Americans who favor America\u2019s invasions of Syria: as the WP<\/i> says in that article, \u201cThe slight majority support for missile strikes last week is markedly higher than in September 2013, when President Barack Obama urged Congress to approve a military operation in response to U.S. government conclusions that Assad used chemical weapons on his own citizens [Obama actually lied there<\/span><\/a>]. A Post-ABC poll at the time found 61 percent [of all Americans] opposed to launching missile strikes, including 45 percent who opposed them \u2018strongly\u2019.\u201d However, the reason for that rise in support for invading Syria is more complex than simply because the American \u2018news\u2019media reflect their owners\u2019 and advertisers\u2019 widespread hatred and demonization of any sovereign and independent Russian government (and of any foreign leader such as Assad who allies with it) \u2014 oppose a country that\u2019s not<\/i> controlled by America\u2019s billionaires \u2014 but is also a reflection of another fact: conservative voters (such as Republicans) tend to be exceptionally prejudiced, far more so than progressive voters are \u2014 and, whereas some progressive Democrats exist, no progressive Republicans still exist (though there are still some liberal<\/i> Republicans). This fact, of Democrats being less-partisan than Republicans are, was indicated, for example, in that same ABC-WP<\/i> poll back on 28 August to 1 September 2013, showing Republicans and Democrats to be at that time both equally<\/i> opposed to the Democratic President\u2019s bombing Syria \u2014 each of the two electorates exhibited the same 12% net margin of overall opposition to it, at that time<\/span><\/a>. Whereas Republicans almost knee-jerk-support Republican leaders, Democrats are somewhat more skeptical about theirs. Ignorance and misinformation are far more common amongst conservatives than amongst progressives<\/span><\/a> (that\u2019s to say, conservatives are far easier to dupe<\/i>), but each political party has a different ideological mix, and this varying degree of gullibility (high among Republicans, but only moderate among Democrats) will largely determine the extent to which a given party will be net-harmful, both to the given nation, and to the world-at-large. A nation\u2019s aristocracy basically controls the beliefs of its conservative voters, but not of its progressive ones, who are the essential foundation for any authentic democracy<\/span><\/a> that exists, anywhere \u2014 or even for democacy to exist, at all. <\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. government\u2019s war to overthrow Syria\u2019s government has been going on ever since in 1949 the CIA first tried to overthrow it for favoring the Soviet Union over Western imperialists<\/span><\/a>. (The progressive Democratic President, FDR, who passionately opposed imperialism, was dead; Truman was now the U.S. President.) Then, after the U.S. under President George Herbert Walker Bush promised the Soviet, subsequently Russian, President, Mikhail Gorbachev, in 1990, that if the USSR and its communism and its Warsaw Pact military alliance all ended, then NATO would not move \u201cone inch to the east\u201d \u2014 and then the Cold War quickly ended on the Russian side \u2014 the U.S. continued the Cold War by moving NATO right up to Russia\u2019s borders<\/span><\/a>, and now the U.S. continues trying to overthrow and replace any national head-of-state who is at all friendly towards Russia. Thus, Saddam Hussein was murdered in 2003, and Muammar Gaddafi was murdered in 2011, and the U.S. regime continues trying to murder Bashar al-Assad, even while claiming that it\u2019s \u201cagainst radical Islamic terrorism,\u201d which the U.S and Sauds actually started in 1979, under Zbigniew Brzezinski<\/span><\/a> and Jimmy Carter<\/span><\/a>, and escalated under Reagan \u2014 all first in order to conquer the USSR, and then, after 1991, to strip Russia of its allies and finally go in for the kill, perhaps to occur soon under Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans who believe that the country that invaded Vietnam, and that invaded Iraq, and that invaded Syria, and that Invaded Libya, and that perpetrated coups in Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Chile (1953), Ukraine (2014), etc., and basically destroyed each one of those countries, should invade a country, tend to be extremely prejudiced in favor of whatever the leadership of their party, ethnicity, or religion, want<\/b>. For example, on April 19th, Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report \u2014 a site that opposes all<\/i> bigotry, by anyone against anyone \u2014 headlined \u201cMaxine Waters Loses Her Mind to \u2018Anti-Russia Dementia\u2019 \u2013 Like the Rest of the Black Caucus\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and he wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Maxine Waters goes gung-ho crazy for the War Party, it tells us that the Black political class \u2014 overwhelmingly Democrats \u2014 are utterly useless to any movement for peace and social justice. In the throes of a terminal case of \u2018Anti-Russia Dementia,\u2019 otherwise known as \u2018Putin Derangement Syndrome,\u2019 the California congresswoman told a Tax March crowd in front of the U.S. Capitol that President Trump and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin somehow conspired to arrange both the chemical event that killed dozens in northern Syria and the U.S. missile strike on a Syrian military airfield that followed.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, similarly, most American Jews are prejudiced in favor of \u201cthe Jewish state\u201d \u2014 the apartheid \u2018democracy\u2019 Israel \u2014 which likewise is trying to replace the non-sectarian pro-Russian Syrian leader by a pro-Saud jihadist leader. (The Israeli regime and the Sauds have been secretly allies for quite some time now; and both of those aristocracies are allied with the U.S. regime \u2014 notwithstanding that the Sauds were behind the 9\/11 attacks<\/span><\/a>, and the Israeli regime militarily attacked the U.S. in 1967<\/span><\/a>, and the U.S. regime covered-up both<\/i>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

So, it doesn\u2019t make much difference what type of bigotry an American happens to have, but practically all of America\u2019s bigots hate Russians. It\u2019s what they\u2019re taught, every time they open a \u2018news\u2019paper, or watch the \u2018news\u2019 propaganda on television, or read \u2018think\u2019-magazines such as The Atlantic<\/i>. The regime\u2019s propaganda-tentacles reach everywhere, to pollute Americans\u2019 minds, in the same way, regardless of party \u2014 they\u2019re all controlled by the same aristocracy<\/span><\/a>. (It\u2019s done mainly by agents hired by the roughly 1,500 billionaires that constitute the U.S. aristocracy and its vassal-aristocracies abroad \u2014 the people who have been running the U.S. empire, especially during recent decades. Their behind-the-scenes influence \u2014 shown in wikileaks etc. \u2014 is so powerful that they effectively control the U.S. government, and not just the mega-banks, the mega-oil-companies, the mega-propaganda-organizations, etc.) <\/span><\/p>\n

This is the real-world version of George Orwell\u2019s dystopic classic novel 1984<\/i>, which was symbolically prophetic \u2014 a symbolically remarkably accurate version of the real thing. On the deeper level, that novel\u2019s portrayal of today\u2019s international relations is far more accurate than are today\u2019s mainstream U.S.-and-empire \u2018news\u2019 \u2018reports\u2019 about the government\u2019s foreign policies. If it hadn\u2019t been merely symbolic, it probably would not have found a publisher at all, but in that fictional form it became a best-seller<\/span><\/a>. Some truths are too deep to be published in a self-described-but-false \u2018democracy\u2019, except<\/i> in a fictionalized form; and, even at the end of World War II, Britain was still being controlled by its aristocracy. But, after Tony Blair\u2019s regime and the conquest of Iraq, even a fictionalized account that might be published today of such reality, would likely be suppressed by the UK\u2019s ruling class. A fiction-book like 1984<\/i> that\u2019s published today would probably be too clearly relevant to what\u2019s occurring in the world, so that even the regime itself cannot deny the allegory\u2019s reference to<\/i> the regime. Ways could be found to stop its publication, or else to discredit its author. Similarly, the U.S. government has been very successful<\/span><\/a> at making its public hostile toward such heroic champions of democracy as Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden<\/span><\/a>, and Julian Assange. When the same aristocracy controls the government as controls the press, it\u2019s fairly easy to do. And, of course, the more misinformed a citizen is, the likelier that citizen will be to think of a whistleblower as being instead a \u2018traitor\u2019<\/span><\/a>. This is how an advanced, modern, police-state functions. And, this way, far fewer people need to be physically<\/i> imprisoned. The more that the mental<\/i> means succeeds, the less there needs to be usage of the far costlier cement<\/i> type. Deceit (coercion against the mind) is much more efficient<\/i> than violence (coercion against the body). Every aristocracy, throughout the ages, has thus preferred fraud, as its modus operandum<\/i>, over violence; and has, consequently, sought to make as difficult as possible, any prosecutions for fraud (the aristocracy\u2019s predominant form for coercions), and as easy as possible, prosecutions for violence (the public\u2019s predominant form for coercions). This is also why the worst criminals are likelier to be found in the White House, than in the big house. And, in any case, partisan prejudices are likelier to decide \u2018criminal\u2019 verdicts, than the facts will.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, if Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal standards<\/span><\/a> were to be applied today, most recent American Presidents would be behind bars, if not executed<\/span><\/a>. Only the aristocracy prevents that from happening. And, after the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy for starting to buck the aristocracy, no subsequent U.S. President has done likewise. That ended that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some might think that the picture this article portrays of the American dictatorship<\/span><\/a> is unrealistically harsh, but any such person should click onto any factual allegation that\u2019s made here which the person challenges, in order to find out whether or not what this article has alleged about it is true, because not to do that would be to be prejudiced, closed-minded, regarding that given matter. And, if the United States is not a dictatorship, then how can one honestly, in accord with the established historical facts (as opposed to propaganda and myths), explain so many other major historical events involving the United States, even domestic events, such as, for example, the assassination in 1968 of Martin Luther King<\/span><\/a>? What is history, and what is lies; and, can a nation whose \u2018history\u2019 is full of lies be<\/i> a democracy? Or, is that an attribute only<\/i> of a dictatorship? Can a democracy have a \u2018history\u2019 composed of lies?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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