If you want to go to heaven, you had better get busy overthrowing SyriaPaul Craig Roberts In Afghanistan eleven years of US attempted occupation has had no more success than a decade of Soviet occupation. The Afghans are still not worn down despite more than two decades of war with the two superpowers. Like the Soviets, the Americans have managed to kill many women, children, and village elders, but precious few warriors. In place of the Soviet puppet government there is Washingtons puppet government. That is the only change, and Washingtons puppet is no more secure than the Soviet one was. In Libya, Washington used its corrupt NATO puppets and CIA-recruited bandits to overthrow another stable government, that of Muammar Gaddafi, leaving Libya mired in sectarian violence. A stable prosperous country has simply been destroyed by western governments that profess human rights values and condemn China and Russia for not having any. Washington has also been killing civilians with drones and air strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, two countries with which Washington is not at war but has purchased the governments, paying the Pakistani and Yemeni governments for the right to murder their citizens and destabilizing both countries in the process. And now in Syria Washington is at work destroying another stable secular government headed by a British trained eye doctor. Washingtons eleven years of illegal aggression against Muslim countrieswar crimes according to the Nuremberg trials of Nazishave resulted in civilian deaths far in excess of military casualties and in a domestic American police state that has destroyed the rule of law and the constitutional protections of US citizens. Washington and its presstitutes have emphasized that these costs are necessary to save Americans from al-Qaeda terrorists, none of whom have ever been apprehended in the United States. Wait a minute! Our government told us for eleven years that we blew trillions of dollars on wars to protect Americans from al-Qaeda, endangering Social Security, Medicare, the social safety net, the dollars exchange value, the credit rating of the US Treasury, and our civil liberties in order to save America from al-Qaeda terrorists. So why is Washington now supporting al-Qaedas overthrow of the secular, non-Islamist government in Syria which has never ever done anything whatsoever to Americans!? The New York Times presstitutes, Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler, elevated the terrorist al-Qaeda organization to the status of the Syrian opposition. At a lunch meeting hosted by Washingtons puppet, British Foreign Secretary William Hague, and US Secretary of State John Kerry, the Syrian opposition, aka al-Qaeda, requested antiaircraft and antitank weapons. A senior Washington official said: Our assistance has been on an upward trajectory, and the president (Obama) has directed his national security team to identify additional measures so that we can increase assistance. US Secretary of State John Kerry announced a $123 million defense aid package to the Syrian opposition that now includes al-Qaeda. Washington had already sent $117 million in food and medical supplies to the Syrian opposition, and ordered its Middle Eastern puppets to send arms. Note the Orwellian language: support for an outside terrorist force seeking to destroy a government and a people is called a defense aid package. On April 11 the establishment French newspaper, Le Monde, reported that the al-Nusra organization affiliated with al-Qaeda is the dominant force in the Syrian opposition, not democratic revolutionaries. Despite this fact, Washingtons puppets, France and Britain, are pushing the European Union to send arms to the al-Qaeda affiliated Syrian opposition. And Senator John McCain wants US airstrikes on Syrian government forces with whom the US is not at war, in order to provide air cover for al-Qaedas takeover of Syria. Meanwhile, the Islamist Shiites, whom the Americans left in control of Iraq, have announced that they have joined the battle against the American-supported al-Qaeda forces seeking to radicalize Syria. So far at last count, the UN reports that the military attack on Syria organized by Washingtons proxies has killed 70,000 people. But americans are preoccupied with the Boson Marathon bombing, which killed 3. Once again the indispensable people are bringing death and destruction to an entire country in order to bring to the dead freedom and democracy. No Syrian asked for this liberation from his life. Be a Proud American. We are doing our duty to our rightful hegemony over the world and to Israel, which has purchased our government. It is our right to be the hegemonic power on the planet earth, and that includes the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore it is Washingtons right to overthrow Syria in order to get rid of the Russian naval base there. The Romans would never have put up with a foreign power having a naval base in the Mediterranean, and we can do no less, unless we are some kind of pansy state afraid of our own shadow. The Mediterranean was mare nostrumour seafor the Romans. Now it is our sea, and by god we are going to claim it by overthrowing Syria. Israel, of course, was given the rights to Greater Israel by God himselfwho am I to question the Christian Zionist preachers who are growing fat on Israeli moneyand part of Greater Israel is the river in southern Lebanon that supplies precious water. Hizbollah, provisioned by Syria and Iran has prevented Israel from confiscating southern Lebanon in order to acquire the water rights that God gave them. Therefore, to fulfill our obligations as Israels puppet, we are required to destroy both Syria and Iran so that Hizbollah is isolated and out of the way and Greater Israel can be created. The Christian Zionist churches in the US repeat this message every Sunday. If you dont believe it, you are some kind of anti-american anti-semite and should be exterminated. Or you could be a despicable Muslim terrorist to be waterboarded into confession. Homeland Security will make short work of you just like they did to those Russian Muslim terrorists in Boston who tried to blow up the Marathon race. I mean, really, how can we indispensable people bring freedom and democracy to the world if the Russians have a naval base in our sea? How can we project strength if we project such weakness by permitting a foreign powers presence in our exclusive sphere of influence many thousands of miles away from our borders. Dont forget, Americas borders are the worlds borders. It says so in our songFrom sea to shining sea. Dont forget it. Of course, we dont want to go head-to-head with another well armed nuclear military power, but the way around that is to demonize the Syrian government and Russia for supporting an eye doctor who is a brutal dictator who is resisting an Islamist al-Qaeda takeover of Syria financed by Washington. Our masters in Washington can use the UN and all our well-paid puppet states to pressure the Russians to shut up and get out of our way. I mean, really, does Putin want all those Russian NGOs that we finance to bring their operatives out onto the streets in Moscow and bring down his government? I mean, really, who does Putin think he is standing up to our god-given hegemony over the world, much less Israels god-given hegemony over the Middle East? I mean, Putin is in for it, and so are those goddamn Chinese. I mean, really, who do they think they are? Americans? Dont those Chinks know about our control of the Pacific? I mean, really, are they out to lunch? And, I mean, really, how can all us get to heaven if we dont do Gods will and deliver the Middle East to Israel as Israel says the scriptures require. I mean, really, do you want to oppose God and burn in hell? Instead of all those virgins Muslims promise you, you will be devoured by fire. You better get on the right side before you die. I mean, really, who wants this fate. We had better get rid of Syria sooner than ordered. If we dont do what Israel tells us God requires, we are finished. Thats for sure. This article first appeared at Paul Craig Roberts new website Institute For Political Economy. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His Internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. 