(Newswire.net — February 5, 2015) — In a debate on Presstv, former US marine and Gulf War veteran Ken O’Keefe, and Senior Fellow of The Center for American Progress Lawrence J. Korb agreed that a large scale war with ground troops in Syria is not a question of ‘if, but the question of ‘when’.
Korb said that what is happening in Syria, referring to a US leaded air strikes, is a strong message that no one is above the international law. That, however, triggered a dissonant tone in O’Keefe’s response.
“We don’t operate under international law,” O’Keefe responded. “What we have is the cover of law, the law of the jungle in which the rich and the powerful basically determine what goes and what doesn’t go. Iraq is perfect example of that,” said O’Keefe arguing that Tony Blair and George Bush are not rotting away in a prison cell for the rest of their lives because the international law is not been applied.
Korb argued the truth that President Obama is in fact criticized for hesitating to lunch a full scale war against ISIL militants but rather limited strikes that deal with headquarters and communications infrastructure. Korb stated that the US is in fact not trying to get involved in this war.
“What are you talking about that the US not trying to get involved?,” O’Keefe said to Korb. “We have been arming people, directly, who are al-Qaeda. Al-Nusra Front is al-Qaeda. These people are psychopaths to the worst order. They are conducting suicide attacks, they are gassing people… We know Carla Del Ponte said in May, that it was the so called the rebels in Syria that were using the Sarin gas, not the Bashar al-Assad’s regime. No it was not. We know that the US president is arming people who are on the US terrorists list,” O’Keefe argued.
He said that The United States are in the perpetual state of war, because the bankers control the politicians and they read the script as given to them by the ‘banksters’, and they make huge amounts of money.“
”So please don’t tell the people out there that the US is not involved, it is directly involved, and it is arming people who are absolute psychopaths,” O’Keefe told Korb.
Korb later argued that it all started in Syria by people who were concerned about the fact they have a authoritarian government that denied its people basic rights and freedom that they deserve. Korb said that using a chemical weapon was the red line al-Assad shouldn’t have crossed. This line, however, aggravated O’Keefe who bypassed the Press TV host and answered directly to Korb.
“We are lead to believe that Asad is the dumbest idiot dictator on the planet, now isn’t he, because he invited UN inspectors to come in, and he brought them in, and on the very day that they came, he decide to attack his own people ten miles away from where the inspectors arrived. This is beyond ridiculous.”
O’Keefe argued that any regime in the Arab world that is not an “absolute puppet” cannot be tolerated. “And who are the nations that we target – those that are not puppets,” he said.
“We don’t target those like the Saudi regime which is the biggest human rights violator in that region, it’s cutting off peoples heads in public, cutting off hands, it is most grotesque regime on the planet and yet we give that regime weapons and is not problem what so ever,” O’Keefe argued.
Speaking directly to Korb, O’Keef said that Americans sons and daughters will get involved in this war yet again, “and these chicken hawks who are pretending to care about the Syrian people, won’t be sacrificing their own sons and daughters.”
“I would like this man [Korb] to send his sons and daughters and his grandchildren off to Syria when this turns into a greater conflict, because this is what we’re flirting with, it is a world war, a third world war, this is not a joke,” O’Keefe concluded.