Now a strictly military action.

The Pentagon under President Donald Trump is enjoying greater freedom to run its wars the way it wants -- and not constantly seek White House approval on important decisions.

I wanted to write something but I didn't know what to write. So I thought I'd just write. It's like when you have so many fucking chores to do you don't know what to do first so you crack a beer, sit at your computer, and read deep political opinion essays.

I don't want to post this article from Rudaw, especially the slideshow of photographs, but we're grownups, right? We need to face the reality of our foreign policy.

http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/180320171

Mosul residents flee the city with dead bodies of loved ones
By Rudaw 18/3/2017

As President Trump considers escalating our invasion of Syria, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview with Chinese TV station Phoenix that the American media largely ignored.
Assad voiced two observations that Americans try very hard to pretend don't exist.

The sense of entitlement, exceptionalism and sense privilege contained within a perversion of the American Dream has reached its logical conclusion.

Reading this story - another version of the MSF Kunduz war crime:

I've just finished reading an intense article by Andre Vltchek about the impact of Obama's 'Good War' on the people of Afghanistan that has profoundly affected me.

I have no words....

I didn't catch this at the time but thought it was important to alert concerned citizens.

Trump wants to greatly increase the military budget. That is insane. McCain, Graham, et al, say that isn't enough, it should be more! That is more insane.

The Syria "civil" war began in 2011 after unrest occurred in the context of the manufactured Arab Spring protests.

"The CIA’s Fake “Arab Spring” Becoming A Long, Hot Summer Of War"

http://tarpley.net/2011/06/20/cia-fake-arab-spring-becoming-summer-of-war/

"U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings"