Het volgende bericht is een lofzang, of beter gezegd ‘gebed op de grootsheid van de VS, haar wapens en op het goddelijk ingrijpen van Saoedi-Arabië in Jemen met die wapens……’ De wapens waarmee S-A een genocide uitvoert op de sjiieten in het buurland Jemen…….

Een werkelijk geweldige gekozen cynische vorm van verhalen over de ware aard van de VS en S-A, plus de enorme ellende die zij in Jemen hebben veroorzaakt, aan de kaak te stellen!! Lezen mensen!!

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“Beauty
of Our Weapons” in the War on Yemen

By
George Capaccio

‘O
Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with
our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms
of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with
the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste
their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the
hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to
turn them out roofless with their little children to wander
unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and
thirst…’

From
“The War Prayer” by Mark Twain

July
27, 2017 “Information
Clearing House” – Now in the summer of our love for
the glory and greatness of the Republic, let us recall the soaring
words of Mark Twain and his paean to war and its multitude of tender
mercies. Let us give thanks to God and his various co-conspirators
for making our nation an exceptional font of wisdom, wealth, and
weapons. Let us praise the weapons makers with their bottomless
thirst for profits and their pledge of allegiance to the continuation
of war for which no price is too great to bear, no life too small to
incinerate in the blessed pursuit of national security, global
hegemony, and unchallenged control of the world’s most vital
resources.

Let
us bow down before the lords and ladies of the Pentagon and CIA, and
their sovereign masters in the White House and legislature whose
deep, uncompromising morality is clearly evident in their decision to
provide billions of dollars worth of weapons to the enlightened
despots of Saudi Arabia. God save King Salman and his ministers of
state, presiding over shining seas of petroleum, that gooey lubricant
that keeps our engines purring and our economy overflowing with the
fruits of capitalist expansion and exploitation.

Now,
as the world warms and the seas rise and the gods repose on cloudy
cushions of greenhouse gas, let us salute our nation’s unbreakable
bond of fealty to the House of Saud as the keeper of the flames that
burn eternally from those precious repositories of oil in the heart
of the desert. O Lord, keep those majestic wells pumping, keep the
money flowing into the coffers of Raytheon, Textron, General Electric
and their brothers in arms, keep our bombs and missiles falling like
magical stars on the markets and mosques, villages, farms, and fields
of ancient Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East and Saudi
Arabia’s next-door neighbor. God, give us the strength and resolve
to continue to support the Saudi-led coalition in its no-holds-barred
onslaught on the people of Yemen and the rebellious fighters in their
midst.

Above
all, keep our eyes fixed on the endlessly falling cascade of tweets
anointing our hands and the phones we hold so dear and dare not lay
aside lest we miss the latest chirp or expose ourselves to the bitter
winds twisting around us, bearing news of a world of woe. Let us
never waver from our sworn duty to pillory Donald Trump at every
opportunity and hold his feet to the fire for the crime of colluding
with the evil empire. Let us only hear the opprobrium hurled at Trump
and his cronies from the high and mighty pulpits of MSNBC and their
all-seeing pundits, who see under every rock and stone and in every
crevice of the national security state a slimy trace of Russian
intrusion.

Grant
us, O Lord, the strength to seal our hearts against those who would
weaken our resolve with the corrosive acid of compassion. Like brave
Ulysses resisting the song of the Sirens, let us not be tempted to
heed the cries of those in need in places like Yemen where our
largess, our weapons, and our diplomatic support allow the Saudi-led
coalition to continue bringing a “hurricane of fire” to this
poor, tortured land.

Thy
will be done, O Lord. Thou hast ordained all this suffering, this
dying of the flesh and of the spirit, this deliberate infliction of
unrelenting pain on the people of Yemen. Truly, what is unfolding in
Yemen is the fulfillment of Thy Word, what Thou hast ordained as a
sign of Thy presence in the world and of the grace that flows from
Thy immaculate heart. Though the people of Yemen cry out for mercy.
Though millions of families have lost their homes, their livelihood,
their future, their faith in a better life to come. Though famine,
pestilence and death stalk the land as the bombing grows more savage
with every passing day, this is as it should be, as it was written in
the book of time.

O
Lord our God, help us to see and accept the absolute necessity of the
part we play in delivering unto the people of Yemen the gifts of Thy
omniscience, for You alone understand the ultimate rightness of the
war and the devastation it has wrought—with the assistance of our
Congress, our President and our military. Help us to set on the path
of righteousness those misguided members of our own House of
Representatives who have voted to end our participation in Yemen’s
civil war and our support of Saudi Arabia and its God-fearing allies.
Surely, these politicos have failed to take the larger view and to
grasp the sublime logic behind Thy design for Yemen and the entire
Middle East.

The
weeping of orphaned children, the keening of widowed mothers—are
these not harbingers of greater things to come, a time when peace and
plenty shall reign supreme, and the people of Yemen, finally subdued,
shall harvest the blessings of Thy bounty. As it was in Iraq, so
shall it be in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, and every other nation in
which our men and women in uniform have led the fight against tyranny
and strewn the land with the priceless jewels of freedom and
democracy.

Help
us, O Lord, neither to oppose nor condemn our nation’s complicity
in the destruction of Yemen and the creation of the world’s most
severe humanitarian crisis. Help us to carry on with the burden of
our daily lives and feel not even a twinge of concern for the
innocent victims of our forward-thinking, strategy-minded leaders and
their endless war on terror. Let us instead praise the “beauty of
our weapons” and the nobility of our cause. With Thy help, O Lord,
we shall succeed in employing the instruments of war to carry out Thy
holy plan for peace on Earth.

The
biggest fools are those who cannot see the evidence of Thy love for
humanity. The arms and munitions we provide for the inspired rulers
of Saudi Arabia and their regional partners are most assuredly
working to advance Your most beneficent vision of what our race is
capable of achieving. Behold the little children in hospital beds or
their mothers’ embrace, their paper-thin bodies shriveling up in
the flames of hunger and disease, while planes overhead deliver load
after load of pious bombs and shrieking villagers scour the
countryside for whatever remains of their loved ones. Is this not
proof of Thy sweeping immanence in the affairs of men?

O
Lord our God, help us to remain silent in the face of so much
suffering, to avert our eyes and pretend our insignificant lives are
no match for the powers that be, though history has demonstrated
otherwise, and prophets from time immemorial have called upon the
people to open their hearts and hear the cries of their brothers and
sisters, and do whatever is in their power to feed the hungry, heal
the sick, shelter the homeless, and put an end to war. Help us,
finally, to ignore the wisdom of the ages and the admonitions of
those who would oppose Thy will and the will of Thy servants in every
government on Earth that calculates its greatness on the number of
corpses at its feet.

George
Capaccio is
a writer and activist living in Arlington, MA. During the years of
US- and UK-enforced sanctions against Iraq, he traveled there
numerous times, bringing in banned items, befriending families in
Baghdad, and deepening his understanding of how the sanctions were
impacting civilians. His email is Georgecapaccio@verizon.net.
He welcomes comments and invites readers to visit his
website: www.georgecapaccio.com

This
article was first published by Counterpunch –

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Mensen, is het niet om te janken, dat de hele wereld wegkijkt terwijl er een genocide aan de gang is in Jemen? Waar blijven de reguliere media die bij de eerste beste leugen over Rusland en Syrie volledig hun dak uitgaan??? Blijkbaar zijn de mensen in Jemen van een ondersoort, die de moeite van het redden niet waard is, althans in de ogen van de reguliere media en in de ogen van opperschoften als PvdA hufter Koenders, VVD oplichter Rutte en ga nog maar even door……….

De reli-fascistische politiestaat Saoedi-Arabië wordt zelfs niet als kwaadaardig afgeschilderd in de reguliere media en door de gemiddelde westerse politicus…… Sterker nog, als één van de zwijnen overlijdt die verantwoordelijk was voor terreur in binnen en buitenland, gaat ons nationale waterhoofd W.A. met Koenders of Rutte naar de begrafenis. De belangen van geld gaan zoals gewoonlijk über alles!!

Zie ook: ‘Genocide op Houthi’s in Jemen: daders Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en de Arabische Emiraten………….‘

en: ‘Media Silent As Saudi Arabia Devastates Yemen Into Famine‘

en: ‘Giro 555: honger en oorlog in Jemen: waarom worden Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB niet aan de paal genageld wegens enorme oorlogsmisdaden??’

en: ‘Jemen: hongersnood veroorzaakt door Saoedi-Arabië en VS >> weg de aandacht van westerse reguliere media en politici………‘

en: ‘Mad dog Mattis stuurt nog meer VS militairen richting Jemen, zodat de hongersnood daar nog ‘meer vruchten’ kan afwerpen……‘

en: ‘Jemen: elke 10 minuten sterft een kind onnodig >> verantwoordelijken: Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB‘

en: ‘Saoedische coalitie vermoord met 2 bombardementen op Jemen, 9 vrouwen en 1 kind……… Aanvallen gesteund door het westen…….‘

en: ‘Jemen en Saoedi-Arabië: leugens van de ‘onafhankelijke’ NOS voor ‘het goede doel……….’‘

en: ‘Ploumen acht het mogelijk dat Nederlandse wapensystemen worden gebruikt door S.A. in Jemen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië bombardeert begrafenis ceremonie in Jemen, VS ‘heroverweegt’ wapenleveranties………‘

en: ‘Witte Huis juristen waarschuwden Obama al in 2015 voor aanklachten wegens oorlogsmisdaden‘

en: (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling in ‘Dutch’): ‘U.S. and U.K. Continue to Participate in War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians‘