tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post9180755051226898148..comments2024-03-29T03:41:12.499+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Responsibility To Protect: But Who? And From What?Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-510930909638966352015-02-21T20:57:53.462+13:002015-02-21T20:57:53.462+13:00Are you saying that as the numbers of victims of I...Are you saying that as the numbers of victims of Isis barbarity (that we are shown) is relatively small, then we should not take any action? Isn't that appeasement?<br />We first heard of Isis in Syria, then Iraq, and this week in Libya. Their videoed provocations have grown from one beheading, to a succession of these cruel executions, to burning alive, to mass throat cutting in Libya, and a burning massacre in northern Iraq.<br />The Jordanians are calling this a Third World War; like it or not, that looks to be where we are heading. Maybe we should face that.Skippershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00674798072085852560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-685802759576787892015-02-19T09:27:17.510+13:002015-02-19T09:27:17.510+13:00I will venture further GS. International interven...I will venture further GS. International interventions in the Middle East have been entirely responsible for the rise of fanaticism and that result was anticipated and created.<br />We may consider Blair and Bush to be dolts but we would be naive to think there were not U.S. and British strategic adisors aware that invasion and conquest without provision for transitional government would cause a security vacuum and the resultant chaos. This obvious consequence of making War has been a given for over a century, I cannot believe it has arisen through mistake. Yet any analysis at some point reaches that conclusion – repeatedly (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria). Is it reasonable to believe that, given the intelligence and intellectual resources involved, these “mistakes” could re-occur with such frequency? I think not. I think we have to look to the possible beneficiaries from the break-up of Arab states.<br />Here the document "A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties" becomes instructive. Israeli intellectual Israel Shahak believed it “represents ....the accurate and detailed plan of the present Zionist regime (of Sharon and Eitan) for the Middle East which is based on the division of the whole area into small states, and the dissolution of all the existing Arab states“.<br />An extract:<br />“Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon.”<br />http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/The%20Zionist%20Plan%20for%20the%20Middle%20East.pdfBrewerstroupehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13011600547966200031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-42623739529022632502015-02-17T15:35:09.253+13:002015-02-17T15:35:09.253+13:00Unfortunately for Rwanda, the UN/Western reaction ...Unfortunately for Rwanda, the UN/Western reaction was almost non-existent. There were a number of reasons for this, one being the crisis in Bosnia which was of course in Europe. And Somalia which was a more ongoing problem. I suspect that the only country that had the resources to stop it was the USA. And after the Blackhawk down situation there was no way they were going to do this. An earlier intervention however might have done some good with fewer troops. Simply because the massacres took place very quickly. With no industrial scale implements they managed to kill people faster than the Nazis killed people in the camps. Not to mention that France was supporting the Hutu in this matter. Even though there were difficulties there was simply an unconscionable lack of will.<br />But I'm not at all sure that an intervention in the Middle East – yet another Western intervention – would do more good than harm. International interventions in the Middle East have largely been responsible for the rise of fanaticism in the first place. In the late 1950s and early 1960s a friend of mine travelled from South India to Turkey, through Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Everywhere he went he was greeted with the upmost hospitality and politeness. Including after a horrific bus accident which left many dead. He never felt the least bit threatened. If he was still alive I doubt he'd go back.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.com