Note: I apologize….this post was suppose to be in August and so much has happened that it just got pushed back…..and back………
We know that over a million refugees have taken it on the lame…….over 100,000 deaths including the gas attack ones…..and almost daily people like John Kerry walks out in front of cameras and chants over and over the need for humanitarian aid for Syria…….we hear the it is our, meaning the US, duty to do whatever it is needed to help the people of Syria…….the problem I have is this whole humanitarian crisis con…….
Let’s start with the issue du jour…..gas attacks…..there is some reporting that our original accusations may have been a bit pre-mature…….
And now reports have surfaced that German Intelligence believes that Assad did not personally order the attacks.
President Bashar al-Assad did not personally order last month’s chemical weapons attack near Damascus that has triggered calls for US military intervention, and blocked numerous requests from his military commanders to use chemical weapons against regime opponents in recent months, a German newspaper has reported , citing unidentified, high-level national security sources.
The intelligence findings were based on phone calls intercepted by a German surveillance ship operated by the BND, the German intelligence service, and deployed off the Syrian coast, Bild am Sonntag said. The intercepted communications suggested Assad, who is accused of war crimes by the west, including foreign secretary William Hague, was not himself involved in last month’s attack or in other instances when government forces have allegedly used chemical weapons.
Was the accusation an Iraq-esque accusation?
But there was another report…….
Source:SMH
United Nations investigators have listed a wide range of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Syria, but provided no conclusion on the issue of chemical weapons use.
“On the evidence currently available, it was not possible to reach a finding about the chemical agents used, their delivery systems or the perpetrators,” the team probing human rights violations in Syria said in its latest report on Wednesday.
It was clear however that “the majority of casualties result from unlawful attacks using conventional weapons,” the Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in a statement.
Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime “have continued to conduct widespread attacks on the civilian population, committing murder, torture, rape and enforced disappearance as crimes against humanity,” according to the report, which covers the period from May 15 to July 15.
Let me be upfront, I am coming at this issue from an international relations position…….now that I have passed along some info on the much maligned gas attacks….I want to turn our attention to the “humanitarian” crisis we hear so much about from Kerry, Obama and other players in this game……
Since the early days of the Syrian situation there has been calls for some sort of humanitarian intervention…..coming from john McCain, Lindsey Graham, Pres. Obama, John Kerry and a whole flock of pundits and “experts”…..first when there were civilian deaths then when there were a massive amount of refugees and then the recent gas attack…..and these people will not let up….a constant barrage of demands for humanitarian intervention…..but there is a problem.
Using force to stop the fighting among competing groups or provide the necessary security to feed starving people or to deal with some sort of ethnic cleansing cannot be accomplished without an invitation of the country’s leadership…..as justified as armed intervention in support of humanitarian causes may seem….it is not…in fact it is not legal within the borders of a sovereign country.
Now the US has found a way around this piece of international law…….if we do not like the government in power then we simply find a group and state that they speak for the people…..and then we can act in any way we desire because we are acting on a request of a legitimate spokesperson of the people…..and this is what we are doing in Syria.
As you listen to Obama and Kerry and all the minor admin players ask yourself where you have heard all this before….all the accusations and condemnations……all have been used before…….does 2002 ring a bell?
This humanitarian thing is nothing but a con……..a con to justify the removal of a person or government we do not approve of at this time. The problem is the humanitarian intervention could possibly add to the bloodshed and add to the humanitarian crisis…….basically…a lose lose scenario!