What to Ask the President (While You Can)

by William Blum - The Anti-Empire Report

Which is most important to you – destroying ISIS, overthrowing Syrian president Assad, or scoring points against Russia?

 

Do you think that if you pointed out to the American people that Assad has done much more to aid and rescue Christians in the Middle East conflicts than any other area leader that this would lessen the hostility the United States public and media feel toward him? Or do you share the view of the State Department spokesperson who declared in September that “The Assad regime frankly is the root of all evil”?

 

Why does the United States maintain crippling financial sanctions and a ban on military aid to Syria, Cuba, Iran and other countries but not to Saudi Arabia?

 

What does Saudi Arabia have to do to lose its strong American support? Increase its torture, beheadings, amputations, whippings, stonings, punishment for blasphemy and apostasy, or forced marriages and other oppression of women and girls? Increase its financial support for ISIS and other jihadist groups? Confess to its role in 9-11? Attack Israel?

 

What bothers you more: The Saudi bombing of the people of Yemen or the Syrian bombing of the people of Syria?

 

Does the fact that ISIS never attacks Israel raise any question in your mind?

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