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Why do so many people in politics and the media want to start wars? Since I toured a sordid hospital full of wounded people in Bucharest at Christmas 1989, and even more after I saw for the first time (in Vilnius in 1991) what a human head looks like after a bullet has passed through it, I have seen it as an absolute duty to warn against armed conflict.... No doubt there are times when we must fight. But there are plenty more when we should not..... Yet I look around me and see the mouths of intelligent people opened...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed U.S., British and French forces’ airstrikes on Syria, saying that the operation sent a message to Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad. “With the joint operation by U.S., U.K. and France on Saturday, the Syrian regime received the message that its massacres wouldn’t be left unanswered,” Erdogan told his ruling AK Party supporters in an Istanbul meeting. “The innocent Syrian people should have been defended long ago,” Erdogan added.

Follow the money and since 1945 the United States has followed the money to Saudi Arabia. After he handed the keys to Eastern Europe to Joseph Stalin and Communism at Yalta, President Franklin Roosevelt met the Saudi king on a warship anchored in a Saudi port and the longterm relationship between the USA and the House of Saud was sealed. When Saddam Hussein threatened in 1990, the US military and the military of other nations arrived paid by Kuwait, the Saudis and other Gulf Arab states for their military mission. America fought its first war for Saudi Arabia. Again in...

Later today the UN Security Council is expected to vote on a resolution that Russia will cast a "NO' vote on setting the state for military action. President Trump told reporters at the White House last evening that the United States was getting "good clarity" on who was responsible for what happened in Syria last Saturday. Trump spoke of "Syria, Russia and Iran" in connection with the incident. In February Trump spoke at a news conference with the then visiting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. "what Russia and what Iran and what Syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace....

There have been many harsh critics of George W. Bush's actions in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 (9/11) Most of the critics (including President Donald J. Trump) seem to miss the vital connection between the war in Iraq for instance and Saudi Arabia. President Bush chose to fight the Iraq war really for the sake of Saudi security and the financial stability of nations like the US and UK, even then increasing in debt and financial vulnerability that needed the support for foreign money including Saudi and Gulf Arab money. Fast forward to here and now. President Trump did...