{"id":362046,"date":"2018-05-20T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T14:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/if-us-foreign-policy-were-consistent\/"},"modified":"2018-05-20T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T14:42:38","slug":"if-us-foreign-policy-were-consistent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/if-us-foreign-policy-were-consistent\/","title":{"rendered":"If US Foreign Policy Were Consistent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Syrian civil war, we have been told, began as part of the Arab Spring and really took hold when Syrian government forces\u00a0allegedly opened fire<\/a>\u00a0on protesters across the country in early 2011. This pattern of indiscriminate violent behavior against civilians has been a talking point in the western media\u2019s regime-change narrative. The media often\u00a0goes<\/a>\u00a0so far as to claim that the government led by Bashar al-Assad has lost all legitimacy.<\/p>\n

What then, should we make of Israel\u2019s decision to open fire on protesters in the Gaza Strip this past week,\u00a0killing over 60 protesters<\/a>\u00a0and wounding 2,700 more in the process? According to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Israel is not an aggressor at all but a country that has shown considerable \u201crestraint<\/a>\u201d in its use of force. Despite the claim that\u00a0most of the dead were Hamas members<\/a>, the fact that 2,700 people were injured suggests Israel deployed lethal force upon thousands of protesters \u2014 not exactly what comes to mind when one thinks of the word \u201crestraint.\u201d Even purposely shooting one unarmed protester seems to contradict everything we are supposed to believe about human rights and democracy.<\/p>\n

By that logic, Assad has also used considerable restraint. For some time, Assad\u2019s forces have been battling groups like\u00a0ISIS<\/a>, al-Qaeda, and\u00a0Jaish al-Islam<\/a>, just to name a few of the Sunni-inspired jihadists currently wreaking havoc across the country. These aren\u2019t some ragtag bunches of rebels dreamily vying for Armageddon \u2014 they have received\u00a0billions upon billions of dollars<\/a>\u00a0of weapons and training from the United States and an endless supply of fighters from some of the most powerful nations in the entire region.
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\nNo Treason: The Consti…<\/a><\/span><\/span>
\nLysander Spooner<\/span>
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The Syrian civil war, we have been told, began as part of the Arab Spring and really took hold when Syrian government forces\u00a0allegedly opened fire\u00a0on protesters across the country in early 2011. This pattern of indiscriminate violent behavior against civilians has been a talking point in the western media\u2019s regime-change narrative. The media often\u00a0goes\u00a0so far […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}