If you haven't heard about the French Government bombing Syria today, here's a link: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/france-isil-raqqa-g20-151115211105532.html

It's a similar pattern to 9/11 and the Iraq war.

US suffers terrorist attack -> US Nationalism (read: government support) spikes to all-time highs -> US Invades Iraq (who obviously had nothing to do with it, they just wanted to take over Iraq) and kills over half a million people and gave the military industrial complex $1.7 Trillion dollars.

Problem -> reaction -> solution. Create or wait for a problem, use the media to control the public's reaction, then use that reaction (typically fear) to sell a solution. Profit from the sales.

They want a war because most western governments are owned in large part by the military-industrial complex, and they are taking advantage of a crisis to use the nationalistic support to provide a moral cover to justify military action in other countries. People are afraid to say anything against action in Syria because it makes them look like they're anti-french government, and with all the flags going around it feels rather uncomfortable to do.

TSA scanners, Iraq war, France's bombing in Syria, and literally thousands of other events throughout history follow this pattern. Profiting from fear, profiting from making people afraid to speak out. The public needs to wake up to how we're being emotionally manipulated to justify wars for profit.

The media isn't going to talk about it though, so it's up to us regular people to spread the word which is why I wrote this post. Feel free to copy any material here to post to other forums if you don't wish to write one yourself. Talk to people you know about this. Spread the word, take a part in waking people up instead of just sitting by the sidelines. If/when things eventually go bad, don't you at least want to say you tried your best to help the situation? Our lack of objection is their permission slip.