Vietnam was peanuts compared to Syria which will be driven home this week by an unelected, hand-picked “consensus” of war parasites known as the Syria Study group. It’s less about Syria than the enslavement of US taxpayers to the genocide industry

They’ll announce sometime this week the expected enslavement of US taxpayers to the US genocide industry’s “Syria war.” Obviously, 63 million votes in 2016 to end US foreign aggression didn’t count. Our fate instead will be decided by a “consensus” of 12 “experts” hand-picked by congress, the same congress which refuses to pass the “Stop Arming Terrorists” Act. The 12 “experts” are called the Syria Study group. 

The Syria Study Group “consensus” will recommend further crimes against humanity to be funded by US taxpayers in the US invasion and continuing occupation of Syria. Just like expert “consensus” on global warming!
 
Image: 12/30/2018, “US flag flies in Syria’s Manbij despite pullout notice,” AFP, Delil Souleiman 

Ordinary American taxpayers don’t appear to be among  congressionally appointed “stakeholders,“ “experts,” “distinguished experts,“ “adjunct senior fellows,” or “Diplomats in Residence,“ who comprise the “consensus” of the pathetic Syria Study Group. 

But no matter, #SyriaStudyGroup has a twitter account where you can chat and feel like you’re part of it all. 

“The release of the SSG’s [Syria Study Group] final report follows months of extensive consultations across a broad range of stakeholders and experts, as well as travel to the region. It represents the consensus of all twelve Congressionally-appointed SSG members and offers a bipartisan roadmap for the way ahead.”… 

On the Syria Study Group’s twitter page one finds a post from a member of the Kagan family of blood drenched war profiteers, Kimberly Kagan’s “Institute for the Study of War.” It doesn’t sound like she wants to end US taxpayer funded genocide of Syria….But hey, you’re invited to chat!
 

Image, 9/21/19, From Syria Study Group twitter account, a post by a Syria Study Group appointee, ISW, “Institute for the Study of War,” which is run by Kimberly Kagan. Cites post at USIP.org, “US Institute of Peace,” which of course it isn’t--because  there’s no free taxpayer cash in “peace.” USIP received $38.6 million tax dollars in 2019. 

“ISW‏ @TheStudyofWar Sep 21 

“Vital American national security interests remain at stake in the war in #Syria. Join the #SyriaStudyGroup at @USIP this coming Thursday (9/26) for a discussion of the way forward for U.S. policy: http://bit.ly/330z5cp.”

From ISW’s twitter page: “The Institute for the Study of War is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security.” 

“National security?” “National Security costs money,” says ISW proprietor Kimberly Kagan’s warmonger brother in law, Robert Kagan from his prized perch on Washington Post’s op-ed page, 3/19/2015, urging congress to show “courage” and commit an extra $38-54 billion US tax dollars to the blood-drenched war industry:

 

“National Security costs money."…3/20/2015, “A Family Business of Perpetual War,” Consortium News, Robert Parry

 

If Kimberly Kagan’s parasitic group actually “focused on US national security” it would demand that heavy tanks and 100 foot high walls line every inch of the 2000 mile US southern border with violent Mexico. Instead, Kagan’s twitter feed shows an obsession with Mr. Putin who is thousands of miles away, poses no threat to the US, but whom US constantly demonizes. In her few twitter entries that aren’t about Russia, Kagan still presents ISIS as a reason to enhance her bank account. We remember if Kagan doesn’t that US considers ISIS an ally, hoped that ISIS would conquer Damascus. An “Institute for the Study of War” is probably a little sad that there’s no more “war on terror” since US is a state sponsor of terrorism. The US government has spent billions supporting Islamic terrorism, including child beheaders, even helped al-Qaeda conquer Idlib. Oh, well. Back to reality. US taxpayers will never have “national security.” The wide open border the US shares with hopelessly lawless Mexico guarantees that. If it were up to the US political class, there would be no border at all between US and Mexico: 7/3/1984, “We propose a five-word constitutional amendment: There shall be open borders.” Wall St. Journal Editorial Board. Those running the US want it to hurry up and merge with Mexico. They welcome violent crime, have no concern about adding financial burden to stressed local school systems, don’t care that diseases once eliminated from the US have been returning along with new ones. At one time, US officials did care about US “national security,” so every prospective immigrant had to pass medical inspection. But parasites like Kimberly Kagan and the Kagan family just want to get their bloody hands on US taxpayer dollars and call it national security.

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