>>>>> an open letter to whomever may be concerned that "we're doing nothing about Aleppo" .......... (or) .......... "Irony, Irony, Everywhere, but Nothing Ever Sinks In."

after all these years of supposedly "fighting ISIS" (that we and the Saudis are actually funding), Russia takes us at our word, and suddenly ISIS actually loses ground.  and,
ever so oddly, after forbidding any pictures to surface of any of our, or our allies'
war crimes for YEARS (ever since the Vietnam "syndrome" proved Americans react
to slaughter) the "terrorists" we've been supporting in a small section of Aleppo are able to make slickly produced videos of suffering kids available to Facebook.  of course they are committing the very same atrocities in the rest of the city, but we're not allowed to see that.  and of course, this pales in comparison to the catastrophe we wrought in places
like Fallujah, where our vengeance for their resistance was worthy of our angry god,
and where there's more deformed babies than there ever were in the Japanese cities we nuked, thanks to our indiscriminate use of depleted uranium.  (as an aside, when the hell do WE go before the UN for using chemical weapons?  or say, for incinerating hundreds of thousands of surrendered, retreating soldiers in a single irremediable day, as Bush the First did, god find his soul.)

but this particular misery in "moderate" "held" Aleppo, THAT we're SUPPOSED to see.
because it will help enable the next round in the ceaseless war for terror, and win acceptance for yet another regime change (which is a fancy US term for invading a sovereign nation because, presumably and presumptively, "we know what's good for these lesser, off-white people.")  i'm not saying i approve of what Assad has done,
or any part of this hideous never-ending crime against humanity.  i just think the irony
of the PR campaign is astonishing, even for a country like America that's practically drowning in the stuff.

and meanwhile, Putin is really beginning to piss off our glorious regime-changers,
here in the stolen "homeland".  first he called Obama's (and our Olympic-caliber irony-slinging Secretary of State's) bluff on the line in the sand.  and if he keeps hemming in ISIS they'll have to cobble together another horrendous boogie man to allow them to continue to meddle in the Middle East.  because in fact, the long range plan is to make the same mess of Syria they've already made of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, etc. etc., (and quite surely intend to make of Iran.)  so that, as oil runs out, the US can maintain their "full spectrum dominance" (per Obama, the primary, overall goal of U.S. foreign policy) and control the access to life-sapping energy of Europe and East Asia,
their actual perceived competitors.  (hence the "pivot".)

and by the way, we're sure as bloody hell NOT doing nothing.  we're killing people there too.  and in the six other countries we're currently bombing.  and our "special forces", hidden from ALL oversight, are now operating in well over a hundred countries, thanks to our Nobel Prize winning precedent setter.  it's not easy keeping large tracts of the planet in a constant uproar, maintaining our standing as number one weapons producer, promoter, spender, and supplier, and coming up with convincing "threats" we can lob our distracting projection at.  notwithstanding how easy it is to pin that label on anyone who gets in our way, and regardless of how none of the current "threatening" nations have armies on other people's far-flung borders, or hundreds of military bases all over the globe (or even, say, ten).  but we have a reputation to keep up.  for, as Martin Luther King pointed out fifty years ago, we are, indeed exceptional.  "the greatest purveyor of terror™" the earth has ever known.  and besides, there must be minutes still remaining
in our "starless midnight of racism and war".
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- Evan Hawthorn, the 14th of December, 2016