Robert Fisk: Förstår Obama att han slåss på al-Qaidas sida?
Jag har ju inte citerat Robert Fisk på några veckor, men
Thunderman var vänlig nog att påminna mig. Här är ett utdrag ur Fisks senaste krönika:
Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side?
If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida.
Quite an alliance! Was it not the Three Musketeers who shouted “All for one and one for all” each time they sought combat? This really should be the new battle cry if – or when – the statesmen of the Western world go to war against Bashar al-Assad.
The men who destroyed so many thousands on 9/11 will then be fighting alongside the very nation whose innocents they so cruelly murdered almost exactly 12 years ago. Quite an achievement for Obama, Cameron, Hollande and the rest of the miniature warlords.
Kängan åt Cameron är förstås överspelad idag.
Fisk gör en viktigt påpekande, nämligen att det som nu pågår är ett propagandakrig, och att det fortfarande är mycket som vi inte vet:
In Iraq, we went to war on the basis of lies originally uttered by fakers and conmen. Now it’s war by YouTube. This doesn’t mean that the terrible images of the gassed and dying Syrian civilians are false. It does mean that any evidence to the contrary is going to have to be suppressed.
Fisk tror inte heller på ett kortvarigt krig:
Sure, we are told that it will be a short strike on Syria, in and out, a couple of days. That’s what Obama likes to think. But think Iran. Think Hezbollah. I rather suspect – if Obama does go ahead – that this one will run and run.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/does-obama-know-hes-fighting-on-alqaidas-side-8786680.html
Har Fisk rätt? Slåss USA nu på al-Qaidas sida? Och kommer ett krig som börjar i Damaskus att sluta i Teheran, om ens där?