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5 Sep, 2013

Pepe Escobar: US Again Ready to Go To War For Israel

Nobel Peace Prize winner and prospective bomber Barack Obama has already implied – via hardcore hedging of the “I have decided that the United States should take military action” kind – that he’s bent on attacking Syria no matter what Congress says.

Obama’s self-inflicted “red line” is a mutant virus; from “a shot across the bow” it morphed into a “slap on the wrist” and now seems to be “I’m the Bomb Decider”. Speculation about his real motives is idle. His Hail Mary pass of resorting to an extremely unpopular Congress packed with certified morons may be a cry for help (save me from my stupid “red line”); or – considering the humanitarian imperialists of the Susan Rice kind who surround him – he’s hell bent on entering another war for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the House of Saud lobby under the cover of “moral high ground”. Part of the spin is that “Israel must be protected”. But the fact is Israel is already over-protected by an AIPAC remote-controlled United States Congress.

Read the rest: Asia Times Online: US: The indispensable (bombing) nation