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Six Killed Pediatricians Sign Letter To Obama
We are used to quite a lot of warmongering propaganda against Syria. The "last hospital in Aleppo gets destroyed" – week after week after week, reports by Physicians For Human Rights on Syria turn out to be scams, videos and pictures of "children rescued" by the U.S./UK payed media group "White Helmets" are staged.
But the yesterday released and very well propagandized Open Letter of Aleppo Doctors takes the crown of warmongering anti-Syrian fakes:
We are 15 of the last doctors serving the remaining 300,000 citizens of eastern Aleppo. Regime troops have sought to surround and blockade the entire east of the city.
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Look who signed that open letter:
Stenographing the letter's propaganda the Guardian cleverly notes:
It has not been possible to verify the names of all the doctors listed in the letter.
May be because these names are those of famous Jihadis? But if only the fake names were the problem …
Notice that there is no general practitioner among those fifteen doctors. This while general practitioners are usually the largest share of medics in any country. Even more astonishingly, six of the fifteen (no. 1, 2, 4, 12, 13, 14) are identify as "pediatricians".
Hmm – ain't those supposed to be dead? All of them? Wasn't the last pediatricians in east-Aleppo killed on April 28?
Our "western" and Gulf governments pay a lot of our taxpayer money for such anti-Syrian warmongering. The "White Helmets" alone receive $60 million. We should at least demand better fakes and more plausible lies for such large expenditures of our money.
Source: Ali Ornek
This is but one recent sample from Humanitarian-Military branch of MIC which is sufficiently active, and for sufficiently long that deserves its own specialty in political sciences, with specialized monographs, journals and conferences.
One of the front troopers of H-M is Nicholas Kristof who is active on the Manhattan front of the vast operation. Just today NYT has his Op-Ed “Obama’s Worst Mistake”. No, it was not the f…up on the roll-out of Obama care that politically disabled what should be the strongest electoral card of Democrats or any other mistake, some of which Kristof also called “Worst” (according to commenters, I do not read him regularly). So what is the mistake of Aug. 11, 2016, exceeding all past mistakes?
“I admire Obama for expanding health care and averting a nuclear crisis with Iran, but allowing Syria’s civil war and suffering to drag on unchallenged has been his worst mistake, casting a shadow over his legacy. It is also a stain on all of us, analogous to the indifference toward Jewish refugees in the 1930s, to the eyes averted from Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s, to Darfur in the 2000s.”
It reminds me a cruel “mother-in-law” joke: “Daddy, why is grandma running a zigzag? Shut up and pass me more bullets.” Far from indifference, “all of us” are supplying the bullets. The rebellion survives due to steady supplies of war material including rockets and missile weapons, heavy infantry vehicles and tanks. The nice part is that USA is selling the war material to Gulfies. so this venture is actually a plus on dollar and cent front. The calculus is different in Europe that suffers from “blow back”, a flood of refugees, some of which are crazy and radicalized (who would suspect that years of bloody war could lead to that?), radicalization among their own Muslim. Some European get something in return: a balm on their fears of Russia, and they also managed to avoid the blowback by resolutely refusing to admit refugees, but convincing the Germans, the French, the Italians, the Spanish and the British requires some emotions — hard to concoct a purely rational case here!
Three elements are needed in an emotional campaign in support of a bloody imperial project. First, name the victims: babies are best, of course, then the children. Second, name the horror in one phrase. It took a while but the current top on the horror list is “barrel bomb”. Third, focus the perspective tightly to remove all distractions from the picture. (The last is perhaps most important, and it is the basic tool in the trade of illusionists). So what is outside the tightly focused picture?
The largest item is Yemen. Vast number of civilians under siege, lacking food, medicine etc.? Check. Civilians bombed, hospitals, schools etc. destroyed? Check. Vastly unpopular head of the “legitimate government”? Check. “Every solution must include Hadi as the legitimately elected President”. But, one cannot compare horrors in Yemen to horrors in Syria! Why? Because Gulfies do not use barrel bombs but exquisitely precise munitions aimed with American assistance! It is another line of propaganda arguments, that cheap weapons are immoral. As Russia is modernizing Syrian airfare, barrel bombs are already hardly used.
Somehow forgotten is a wider humanitarian mission, bringing democracy to the Middle East. Now the paymasters are in Riyad, Doha, etc. and they do not stress that aspect.
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Aug 12 2016 14:59 utc | 13
I apologize to b in advance for the long post, but I just can’t resist tearing the good doctor’s letter apart.
We are 15 of the last doctors serving the remaining 300,000 citizens of eastern Aleppo.
Aren’t doctors suppose to be smart? Then why would you believe CNN’s preposterous population estimates instead of reality. I assume you can clearly see the difference because you supposedly LIVE and WORK there, right? Do head-choppers force you to watch CNN? Oh God… that’s just… inhumane!
Regime troops have sought to surround and blockade the entire east of
the city.
That’s probably because the east of Aleppo (as well as all the rest of it) has always belonged to the Syrian people, Doc – not to Wahhabi head-choppers. I think the Syrian people and their ‘regime’ intend to take it back.
Their losses have meant that a trickle of food has made its way into
eastern Aleppo for the first time in weeks.
And their humanity means entire convoys of food and aid will be allowed into the head-chopper controlled east. Why don’t you school your Wahhabi pals on similar kinds of humanity and empathy, Doc? Yeah – sorry that the convoys won’t include TOW-2As, bulk explosives and MANPADs to kill Syrians. You should be happy about that part, right?
Whether we live or die seems to be dependent on the ebbs and flows of the battlefield.
Jesus… did you just figure that out, Snowflake? You live in a damn war zone that your head-chopper buddies created by occupying Syrian-populated east Aleppo. If you choose to live in a head-chopper infested part of town that Syrians want back, then your life is at risk. Ever think that maybe you should move to a safer neighborhood?
We have seen no effort on behalf of the United States to lift the siege or even use its influence to push the parties to protect civilians.
The U.S. killed a MILLION IRAQIS to ‘save’ them from Hussein. The U.S. turned Libya into a lunatic, poverty-stricken third world hell-hole to ‘save’ them from Ghadaffi. What on God’s earth makes you think the U.S. has the interests of civilians – ANY civilians – in mind? The U.S. imposes it’s will on people or kills them. Why do you think you are any different? Did CNN tell you that?
For five years, we have faced death from above on a daily basis. But we now face death from all around.
Whaaa…?? You write worse than I do, dude. But I applaud you on your situational awareness of death’s attack direction – it’s one sneaky bastard all right!
For five years, we have borne witness as countless patients, friends and colleagues suffered violent, tormented deaths.
For five years, I have borne witness the U.S. sado-neocons intentionally causing that death in the name of installing a U.S. puppet government in Syria. I’m kind of tormented about the slow, painful moral death of the United States. I hear it use to be a nice place with good people. That’s what CNN told me.
For five years, the world has stood by and remarked how ‘complicated’ Syria is, while doing little to protect us.
Psychopathic imperialism and hegemony are complicated schemes, Doc. And what did I tell you about the U.S. and civilians? We protect oil pipeline routes – Syrian people are not oil pipeline routes. But you’re a doctor so you probably already know that.
Last month, there were 42 attacks on medical facilities in Syria, 15 of which were hospitals in which we work.
Wait – ALL the hospitals except al Quds are gone, right? Did you build a few dozen new ones recently? More importantly, did you tell Russia precisely where they are? Syria and Russia do not knowingly bomb medical facilities, regardless of what CNN, the NYT or HRW claim. They don’t have X-ray vision. If your ‘hospital’ has TOW-armed head-choppers on the roof and snipers in the top floors, then the Syrians and Russians are probably not going to know you have incubators in the basement. How about asking the head-choppers to leave and painting a huge red cross on the roof like most civilized non-Wahhabi nations? Kind of like a little clue so they DON’T unintentionally bomb you.
Right now, there is an attack on a medical facility every 17 hours.
Invisible medical facilities or ones in the basement that Russian pilots with X-ray vision can see from 20,000 ft? So every 17 hours – instead of picking up a phone and telling the Russians where your medical facilities are – you’re hoping your luck simply changes? Lay off the Captagon, Doc – it’s doing bad things to your brain. And you don’t sound particularly lucky, either. Think of the children.
At this rate, our medical services in Aleppo could be completely destroyed in a month, leaving 300,000 people to die.
That’s not true. There’s plenty of functional medical services in Aleppo. Oh – you mean head-chopper occupied east Aleppo. Maybe you should move your facilities and sick people to the much safer west side of town. Wouldn’t that be the humane thing to do?
What pains us most, as doctors, is choosing who will live and who will die.
I feel your pain, doc. I hate being from the nation that chooses which other (smaller, weaker) nation’s citizens live and die. Why can’t other nations pitch in and help decide? Who needs any more stress in their lives. I sure don’t!
Young children are sometimes brought into our emergency rooms so badly injured that we have to prioritize those with better chances, or simply don’t have the
equipment to help them.
Wait – you ‘prioritize’ children when you don’t have the equipment to help them? Don’t you mean just the opposite? I hope you don’t write instruction manuals for brain surgery or anything like that. And what you’re doing is triage – that’s an ER doctor’s job. Move your damn ‘medical facility’ and customers out of an active war zone and your triage experiences will be a little less traumatic.
Two weeks ago, four newborn babies gasping for air suffocated to death after a blast cut the oxygen supply to their incubators.
OK – I’m no doctor – but newborn babies are not suppose to be gasping for air in an incubator if the oxygen supply gets cut off. That’s not how they’re built anywhere on earth. Every doctor should know that. Are you even a doctor or did you learn about incubators from comic books? Why are you putting newborns in sealed suffocation chambers that REQUIRE a constant oxygen supply, Dr. Mengele? Is that some special head-chopper torture incubator or did you repurpose one meant for chickens? Stop using them, you God damn butcher. They’re not safe.
Gasping for air, their lives ended before they had really begun.
Oh my God! Did you take Language as Drama lessons from ABC World News Tonight with David Muir? And ‘gasping for air’ loses its dramatic impact when you just used it thirteen words ago. How did you miss that? And 15 doctors signed this letter without proofreading it? Now I AM starting to get worried about their victims… er, patients.
Despite the horror, we choose to be here. We took a pledge to help those in
need. Our dedication to this pledge is absolute.
I certainly hope so – you’re a freaking DOCTOR. Do you expect a medal for helping people? And were you hoping for some kind of a horror-free war zone?
Some of us were visiting our families when we heard the city was being besieged.
The city? Oh – you mean your head-chopper enclave in east Aleppo, not the city – was being cut off from fresh head-chopper, Captagon and ammunition resupply. Doc: you are not in Aleppo city proper. You are in the slowly-shrinking Wahhabi-occupied paradise the Saudis carved out of the east side of Aleppo. It will be part of Aleppo again some day, but don’t confuse it with the Syrians in free, government-controlled Aleppo. You’re not in that part.
So we rushed back – some on foot because the roads were too dangerous.
Let me get this straight: the roads were too dangerous to drive on, so some of you ran down those same roads on foot? Did they teach you that kind of special logic in medical school or is that a strategy you came up with all on your own?
Because without us even more of our friends and neighbors will die. We have a duty to remain and help.
You kind of have a moral obligation to discourage people from supporting a failing U.S.-led revolt to overthrow the Syrian government. You have an ethical obligation to Syrian citizens to restore a stable, peaceful country. You have NO obligation to Saudi Wahhabi head-choppers or agents of the U.S. government who seek to kill more Syrains. You have a duty to avoid creating a constant stream of new customers for your medical facilities. Your side lost – get over it.
Continued US inaction to protect the civilians of Syria means that our plight is being wilfully tolerated by those in the international corridors of power
The U.S. ‘protected’ a million Iraqis by killing them. Trust me – you don’t want ANY help from the U.S. or you and your friends will surely die. Read that again. Do you understand that at all? Move your lips if it will help. U.S. ‘help’ = more dead Syrian babies. How can I be any clearer?
The burden of responsibility for the crimes of the Syrian government and its Russian ally must therefore be shared by those, including the United States, who allow
them to continue.
Sorry – the U.S. is already guilty for fomenting a failed revolution that has cost the lives of 300,000 Syrian citizens and displaced several millions internally and externally. We’re guilty of destroying most of Syria’s infrastructure, stealing its land and natural resources and impoverishing nearly all of its remaining people. We’re guilty of creating, aiding and abetting two major head-chopper terrorist organizations and enlisting them to help us overthrow the Syrian government. We’re guilty of the destruction and ruin of one of the oldest and longest continually-inhabited cities on the planet – Aleppo. Your imagined ‘crimes’ of the Syrian government and Russia pale in comparison. You are going to have to park your accusations way, way in back of the U.S. guilt line – there’s many, many real crimes the U.S. has committed ahead of you.
Unless a permanent lifeline to Aleppo is opened it will be only a matter of time until we are again surrounded by regime troops, hunger takes hold and hospitals’
supplies run completely dry
You forgot to mention the fresh head-choppers, Captagon and bulk explosive resupply lines. All of them are kind of the reason you are in the jam you’re in now. How the hell is FOOD going to end the head-chopper occupation of Aleppo? You should be helping people evacuate.
Death has seemed increasingly inescapable.
You’re not very bright for a supposed doctor, are you?
We do not need to tell you that the systematic targeting of hospitals by Syrian regime and Russian warplanes is a war crime. We do not need to tell you that they are committing atrocities in Aleppo.
No – creating those lies are the job of western MSM. If Syria and Russia were actually doing this, then yes – it would be a war crime. They’re not, and your lying about it isn’t convincing anybody. Leave the lying to the real pros in the MSM and the humanitarian NGOs. You’re an amateur. Frankly, it’s kind of embarrassing.
We do not need tears or sympathy or even prayers, we need your action.
Yet you wrote an overly-dramatic letter designed specifically to appeal to our emotions. Is this some nutty passive-aggressive control technique? I feel like I want to kick my dog now, you bastard!
Prove that you are the friend of Syrians.
Listen, Doc. You are appealing to my president – a man who has overseen the death of 300,000 Syrians in order to kill Assad, install a U.S.-led puppet government and build pipelines over their fresh graves. A man who wants to give the Golan to Israel and carve out an independent Kurdish state (along with the oil wells) in northern Syria. I’ll humbly suggest you are asking the wrong damn person to be (much less ‘prove’) their friendship to Syria. Exactly how naive can you possibly be?
The U.S. is the ENEMY of the Syrian people and is directly responsible for the deaths of over a quarter of a million of them (and counting). Pop a few Captagon and contemplate the way normal people treat friends. The U.S. is not your friend and is not going to help any insignificant ‘little people’. The U.S. only seeks to own you and your country.
Posted by: PavewayIV | Aug 13 2016 2:17 utc | 63
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