“No child of God should ever suffer such horror,” he said April 6, announcing that he had ordered the strike against the air base from which he said the chemical weapons attack was launched.
Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph Younan called the attack an aggression and told Catholic News Service: “It is a shame that the United States administration didn’t wait until an honest United Nations investigation was thoroughly made into what is said to be a chemical air strike in Khan Shaykun.”
“The agglomerate media and the supremacist policy of the USA just want the killing and destroying conflict in Syria to continue, and this primarily to kill whatever attempt to resolve the bloody crisis,” added Younan, who was born in Syria and served for 14 years as bishop of the New Jersey-based Diocese of Our Lady of Deliverance for Syriac Catholics in the United States and Canada.
Bishop Georges Khazen, who serves Latin-rite Catholics in Aleppo, told the Rome-based Fides news agency that he was baffled by “the speed with which it was decided and carried out, without any adequate investigation into the tragic massacre with chemical weapons which took place in Idlib province.”
He said the attack “opens new disturbing scenarios for all.”
Surprise, surprise . . . they don’t want our bombs! You might also think it curious that there seems to be no word on these bishops condemning the alleged gas attacks. Here is a possible reason for it: they still hadn’t determined who to blame for it and the American attacks only made that more difficult to determine. Or, nobody reported on it in the West, because, let’s face it, the Americans don’t really care about Syria.
The bishops are right about “disturbing scenarios for all,” Girardian thinker Jean-Pierre Dupuy talks about them in terms of what he calls the Jonah Paradox. However, there’s nothing surprising about the Trump/Clinton consensus on the need for war in order to unite a divided country. This is nothing new, it’s how modern nation-states have operated at least since the French Revolution. The nation-state feeds off of having enemies in order to foster national unity. This is so much the case that nation-states produces enemies artificially when there aren’t natural enemies. In other words, if a nation-state doesn’t have enemies, it’ll invent them like we are doing with Syria . . . No, this isn’t about helping Syria.
What is surprising is how anchorman Brian Williams used the bombings to desecrate the memory of Leonard Cohen:
Brian Williams calls DOD video of missile strikes “beautiful”, unironically quotes Leonard Cohen, “Im guided by the beauty of our weapons”
To get a sense for the irony listen to the Cohen song below. If you have no idea who the man is then watch the best Cohen documentary out there, I’m Your Man. By the way, the film was directed by a Catholic.
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