Obama Committing US to Syrian Conflict

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Obama Committing US to Syrian Conflict

Source: By Pete Souza (White House Flickr account)

According to a recent UN report, at least 93,000 have been killed in just over two years of conflict in Syria.

While the rising death toll is indeed shocking, it is important to note that this conflict is a civil war and not an ethnic cleansing or genocide. It is a civil war, with many factions vying to wrest power from the dictatorial tyrrant and president that is Bashar al-Assad.

Unfortunately, Syria is attracting far more foreign influence than any civil war should reasonably warrant.

Remember if you will, that there was once an American Civil War - it lasted four years and saw the deaths of over 600,000 Americans. Imagine if the super-power of the day, the British, who largely favored the Confederacy at the time, had joined in our own Civil War? Abraham Lincoln's place in history would certainly be viewed entirely differently today, as would those of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee.

It is quite easy to look back today and proclaim that good triumphed, in that human beings would no longer be viewed as personal property in the United States of America - but what of Syria? Source: By Ricardo Stuckert/ABr (Agência Brasil [1]) [CC-BY-3.0-br (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons

It is easy to regard Bashar al-Assad and see him for the villian that he is. But who is the Abraham Lincoln or Ulysses S. Grant in Syria?

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I saw the Netflix rental, Spielberg “Lincoln” propaganda movie last night and kept thinking of the parallels of Obama today involving us in a civil war today.

There was a FR thread about the film last year:

Movie Review: The Lincoln Movie is Propaganda
The Examiner ^ | November 17, 2012 | Davi Barker

Posted on Sunday, November 18, 2012 1:43:36 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

With only a limited theatrical release last week, Steven Spielberg’s latest work of imaginative fiction is scheduled for wide release today. I know Hollywood plays fast and loose with history, but when they go out of their way to get the wallpaper in Lincoln’s office exactly right, and use a recording of his actual watch as the sound effect for his movie watch, but pay little deference to his actual statements or opinions… something must be said.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2960912/posts

Spielberg’s Upside-Down History: The Myth Of Lincoln And The 13th Amendment

Friday, 30 November 2012 12:34 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

-Market Editor’s Note:

Spielberg should have stuck with giant sharks and dinosaurs, but it seems that Hollywood can’t help itself when it comes to revising history. ‘Schindler’s List’, for instance, would have been a far finer film had Spielberg included how the German people descended into tyranny in the first place, rather than simply making them typical mustache twirling cartoon villains. Why not reveal the involvement of international banking elites in the development of Eugenics in the U.S. which led to Hitler’s “final solution”? Or how U.S. corporate interests funded the rise of the Nazi Party? Or how IBM knowingly aided the development of Nazi death camps with their punch card computers? Aren’t these facts part of history as well? Don’t we deserve to have the truth displayed in our biographical movies?

The reality is, the truth is being rewritten to suite the propaganda needs of the establishment, and right now, the establishment wants us to believe in the fraudulent greatness of Lincoln and the dominance of the Federal Government. The Civil War may have been about slavery for some, but for Lincoln, it was about centralizing power over the states. Lincoln couldn’t have cared less about the rights of blacks, as the following article succinctly shows...

http://www.alt-market.com/articles/1189-speilbergs-upside-down-history-the-myth-of-lincoln-and-the-13th-amendment