There's another dose of White Helmets propaganda on view at the Globe and Mail today, courtesy of Mark MacKinnon.
Seems that a few of those brave White Helmet volunteers that Israel allowed transit to Jordan last year remain stuck in Jordan, instead of finding their way to a warm welcome in Canada. Apparently there are "security concerns," and our Foreign Minister sounds like she's trying to fob them off on some other Western country, one that doesn't vet their young Muslim immigrants of fighting age, coming from combat zones, as thoroughly as Canada does.
Call me skeptical, but the White Helmets saga has smelled mighty fishy from the get-go. The official story, that these are local volunteers saving their neighbours from the vile Assad's relentless attacks, sounds good on the face of it.
So why does that bit of local altruism require an ex-SAS guy from the British Army by the name of James Le Mesurier to organize it? And how can a "volunteer" group soak up well over $100 million in Western financing over four short years? That's well over $25,000 per "volunteer." To put that into context, $25k is about 20 years salary for a conscript in Assad's Syrian Arab Army.
Either these are the best paid volunteers in the Middle East, or James and his Mayday Rescue outfit are siphoning off one hell of a management fee.
MacKinnon recycles the stale tale of the White Helmets expose of Assad's use of chemical weapons:
Videos made by the White Helmets also provided the initial evidence-later substantiated by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-that the regime had used chemical weapons against its opponents.
Mark is being disingenuous with that claim. Google "OPCW news" and see what comes up. The integrity of the OPCW has taken a huge hit in recent weeks, and Mark is surely aware of that fact. Why not mention it in his story?
Instead, he quotes Chystia Freeland blaming Russian smears.
Not sure exactly what it is you're doing, Mark, but it isn't journalism. Propaganda, perhaps?
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Monday, June 3, 2019
Friday, September 7, 2018
We'll drown you in 24/7 Trump till you beg for mercy
September has been all Trump all the time on the news networks. It kicked off with that nauseating McCain funeral carnival. Did you notice the media made that more about Trump than McCain?
Apparently Mr. President was not invited to the show and played a round of golf instead. Anytime I can avoid a funeral to play golf instead I figure I'm way ahead of the game, but this was treated as a major snub of the Orange Ogre.
Not that Senator McCain wasn't a "great American." Born into wealth and privilege, McCain used his advantages to his own advantage all his life, as great Americans generally do. The one courageous stand he took during his career was against torture, and he was more or less cornered into that to maintain the myth that had grown around his status as a one-time victim of torture.
Then it was the Woodward book. By God, somebody told Woodward that somebody in the White House referred to it as "Crazy Town!" I've never worked anywhere that at least a few folks didn't consider "Crazy Town," but I guess it's supposedly a different thing when you work at the White House.
By the way, do you ever wonder why a journalist whose career peaked over forty years ago is treated as a living legend of investigative journalism, while working journalists like Sy Hersh, who has at least as significant a track record, have been effectively de-platformed in US media?
Then came the infamous NYT op-ed...
When I'm having that much Trump waved at me to the exclusion of virtually all other news, I get suspicious. What's going on? Has The Empire really given up on regime change in Syria?
I think not.
Notice the impeccable timing of the lame-duck May government's latest allegations regarding the so-called Skripal affair. Other than being a convenient excuse to work the words "gas attack" and "Russia" into the same narrative, that story remains as dodgy as it ever was.
Notice too that this comes as the US, UK, and France have all vowed retaliation should Assad "use gas against his own people."
The stage is now set; Syria, and those well-known gassers in Russia, are poised to clean out Idlib. Inevitably, there will be claims that Assad and his Russian backers have resorted to using poison gas, because that's what those people do. Then the Nations of Virtue will rise as one, remove Assad from the scene once and for all, and put Putin on notice that the next time his minions run wild gassing retired Russian spooks in England we're coming for him too.
With Assad gone and Putin's fingers burned, Iran will be isolated. What a perfect opportunity to restore the pre-'79 liberal democracy in that benighted land!
The same crowd in DC who have convinced themselves that they are the shapers of history are about to shape some more.
What could go wrong?
Apparently Mr. President was not invited to the show and played a round of golf instead. Anytime I can avoid a funeral to play golf instead I figure I'm way ahead of the game, but this was treated as a major snub of the Orange Ogre.
Not that Senator McCain wasn't a "great American." Born into wealth and privilege, McCain used his advantages to his own advantage all his life, as great Americans generally do. The one courageous stand he took during his career was against torture, and he was more or less cornered into that to maintain the myth that had grown around his status as a one-time victim of torture.
Then it was the Woodward book. By God, somebody told Woodward that somebody in the White House referred to it as "Crazy Town!" I've never worked anywhere that at least a few folks didn't consider "Crazy Town," but I guess it's supposedly a different thing when you work at the White House.
By the way, do you ever wonder why a journalist whose career peaked over forty years ago is treated as a living legend of investigative journalism, while working journalists like Sy Hersh, who has at least as significant a track record, have been effectively de-platformed in US media?
Then came the infamous NYT op-ed...
When I'm having that much Trump waved at me to the exclusion of virtually all other news, I get suspicious. What's going on? Has The Empire really given up on regime change in Syria?
I think not.
Notice the impeccable timing of the lame-duck May government's latest allegations regarding the so-called Skripal affair. Other than being a convenient excuse to work the words "gas attack" and "Russia" into the same narrative, that story remains as dodgy as it ever was.
Notice too that this comes as the US, UK, and France have all vowed retaliation should Assad "use gas against his own people."
The stage is now set; Syria, and those well-known gassers in Russia, are poised to clean out Idlib. Inevitably, there will be claims that Assad and his Russian backers have resorted to using poison gas, because that's what those people do. Then the Nations of Virtue will rise as one, remove Assad from the scene once and for all, and put Putin on notice that the next time his minions run wild gassing retired Russian spooks in England we're coming for him too.
With Assad gone and Putin's fingers burned, Iran will be isolated. What a perfect opportunity to restore the pre-'79 liberal democracy in that benighted land!
The same crowd in DC who have convinced themselves that they are the shapers of history are about to shape some more.
What could go wrong?
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Climate Barbie goes off-script
I see where Environment Minister Catherine McKenna had herself a "my-face-is-red" moment when one of her minions inadvertently sent out a tweet praising Syria for joining the Paris climate accord.
Can't be having any of that now, can we! We must never forget that the eye doctor from Damascus is a blood-drenched monster who delights in gassing his own people, especially children! And suddenly we've got our Environment Minister high-fiving him for joining the fight against green-house gasses?
Well, she's obviously WAY off the script there, and it didn't take the men behind the curtain long to yank her leash. She's realized the error of her ways and is back on track.
The Syria script has always been a little dodgy to my way of thinking. On the one hand, we're constantly told Assad is unfit to inhabit this planet etc, and on the other hand the Canadian security establishment used to outsource their torture operations to the Assad regime. We don't do that stuff ourselves of course, but we're not above sending a few recalcitrant towel-heads over there to get their just desserts.
The ones who lived to tell the tale are subsequently made multi-millionaires by our guilt-ridden government. The ones who didn't, and there had to be more than a few, we never hear about.
And another dodgy aspect to the Syria script; let's assume for a moment that Assad is every bit the butcher we're constantly told he is. Then why do we arrest idealistic young Canadians on their way to Syria to join the fight against him? How does that make any sense?
Given how famous Canadians are (at least in Canada) for "punching above our weight," these idealistic young Canadians could have made all the difference. Assad might very well be inhabiting the dustbin of history by now had we let them go. But no, we charged them with terror offences and locked them up, and Assad has all but won the war.
Were we yet again secretly in cahoots with Assad?
These are secrets known only to the script-writers.
Can't be having any of that now, can we! We must never forget that the eye doctor from Damascus is a blood-drenched monster who delights in gassing his own people, especially children! And suddenly we've got our Environment Minister high-fiving him for joining the fight against green-house gasses?
Well, she's obviously WAY off the script there, and it didn't take the men behind the curtain long to yank her leash. She's realized the error of her ways and is back on track.
The Syria script has always been a little dodgy to my way of thinking. On the one hand, we're constantly told Assad is unfit to inhabit this planet etc, and on the other hand the Canadian security establishment used to outsource their torture operations to the Assad regime. We don't do that stuff ourselves of course, but we're not above sending a few recalcitrant towel-heads over there to get their just desserts.
The ones who lived to tell the tale are subsequently made multi-millionaires by our guilt-ridden government. The ones who didn't, and there had to be more than a few, we never hear about.
And another dodgy aspect to the Syria script; let's assume for a moment that Assad is every bit the butcher we're constantly told he is. Then why do we arrest idealistic young Canadians on their way to Syria to join the fight against him? How does that make any sense?
Given how famous Canadians are (at least in Canada) for "punching above our weight," these idealistic young Canadians could have made all the difference. Assad might very well be inhabiting the dustbin of history by now had we let them go. But no, we charged them with terror offences and locked them up, and Assad has all but won the war.
Were we yet again secretly in cahoots with Assad?
These are secrets known only to the script-writers.
Monday, October 17, 2016
What's new in the "war on terror?"
Well, the good guys are about to put the boots to the bad guys in Mosul.
And that's a good thing, of course!
Read around a bit and you'll find plenty of stories that claim thousands of Mosul jihadis have already been spirited to Raqqa in Syria. By the US allies.
Yup, no point killing them in Iraq if they can be useful in making regime change in Syria,
I suspect the Mosul operation will go swimmingly well.
The Raqqa operation, not so much.
And that's a good thing, of course!
Read around a bit and you'll find plenty of stories that claim thousands of Mosul jihadis have already been spirited to Raqqa in Syria. By the US allies.
Yup, no point killing them in Iraq if they can be useful in making regime change in Syria,
I suspect the Mosul operation will go swimmingly well.
The Raqqa operation, not so much.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Israel in the age of Islamic State
The arrogant Likudniks who have been running the show in Israel for the last 25 years today announced another 300 settler homes on Palestinian territory in the West Bank.
As every Israeli who gives these matters any thought whatsoever already understands, that's going to inflame resistance all over again.
The "resistance" these days is largely confined to teens throwing stones at settler vehicles.
Ya, I know there's those deadly Gaza rockets that never manage to hit anything, but by and large, those stone-throwers are the "resistance."
Their resistance has recently been further criminalized by the introduction of a 20 year jail term for the stone-throwers.
While that is going on, the Likudniks have been cynically annexing the Golan, because what the hell is Assad going to do about it?
We'll just help ourselves to those oil and gas resources while Mr. Assad is otherwise occupied.
Does nobody in the Likudnik power structure see where they are taking their country?
There may be folks high up in the IDF who think they have a handle on what's going on across the borders, and at this point the upheaval is ongoing across every border.
You've got a highly unpopular non-democratic government in Egypt tamping down the fires in the Sinai.
Lebanon is practically an anarchic state, as Syria and Iraq are already.
Jordan is on the brink.
And Netanyahu concludes that this is the moment to announce 300 settler homes in the West Bank!
Yes, it may be great PR to humour some of those IS guys who show up at the border seeking medical attention. But is there a long-term strategy at work in the Netanyahu cabinet?
The closest thing that the Likudniks have ever had to a "long term strategy" is the belief that when and if the shit hits the fan, the USA will come to the rescue.
It might be time to give that strategy a good re-think.
As every Israeli who gives these matters any thought whatsoever already understands, that's going to inflame resistance all over again.
The "resistance" these days is largely confined to teens throwing stones at settler vehicles.
Ya, I know there's those deadly Gaza rockets that never manage to hit anything, but by and large, those stone-throwers are the "resistance."
Their resistance has recently been further criminalized by the introduction of a 20 year jail term for the stone-throwers.
While that is going on, the Likudniks have been cynically annexing the Golan, because what the hell is Assad going to do about it?
We'll just help ourselves to those oil and gas resources while Mr. Assad is otherwise occupied.
Does nobody in the Likudnik power structure see where they are taking their country?
There may be folks high up in the IDF who think they have a handle on what's going on across the borders, and at this point the upheaval is ongoing across every border.
You've got a highly unpopular non-democratic government in Egypt tamping down the fires in the Sinai.
Lebanon is practically an anarchic state, as Syria and Iraq are already.
Jordan is on the brink.
And Netanyahu concludes that this is the moment to announce 300 settler homes in the West Bank!
Yes, it may be great PR to humour some of those IS guys who show up at the border seeking medical attention. But is there a long-term strategy at work in the Netanyahu cabinet?
The closest thing that the Likudniks have ever had to a "long term strategy" is the belief that when and if the shit hits the fan, the USA will come to the rescue.
It might be time to give that strategy a good re-think.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Blaze a doobie, not a Uzi...
That's the last word on the subject from the pacifists here at Falling Downs.
In the tradition of Menno Simons, we're totally anti-war and anti-violence. You don't pick up your Uzi till the intruder poses an immediate threat.
Actually, Simons would have held off the trigger and just let the intruder take his stuff...
Which is better than taking a life.
Besides, if you don't own anything worth stealing, the chances of an intruder posing an immediate threat are slim indeed.
That's why we're a little puzzled by our government's enthusiasm for nabbing wannabe jihadists who are heading off to fight Assad. They got three guys in Ottawa this past week on exactly that charge.
Now, had we permitted their Syrian adventure, this story foretells their likely fate. Six Canadian jihadis dead in the last couple of months. In Syria.
That beats the hell outta arresting them at the airport on their way to glory, which just means they'll be clogging up the court system at vast public expense, indefinitely!
Those young idealists, if they wanna go to Syria to fight Assad, let 'em go!
Besides, they're just heading off to do their small part to complete the Harper-Baird mission of seeing Assad out the door. Why are we stopping them?
And also, (and we're in double-bonus territory here), once they're killed over there, we don't have to worry about them coming home and causing havoc here.
That's what's known as a "win-win," my friends!
The only bigger win would be if those guys would just forget the glory and focus on the doobie in the first place...
That would save a lot of folks a lot of grief!
In the tradition of Menno Simons, we're totally anti-war and anti-violence. You don't pick up your Uzi till the intruder poses an immediate threat.
Actually, Simons would have held off the trigger and just let the intruder take his stuff...
Which is better than taking a life.
Besides, if you don't own anything worth stealing, the chances of an intruder posing an immediate threat are slim indeed.
That's why we're a little puzzled by our government's enthusiasm for nabbing wannabe jihadists who are heading off to fight Assad. They got three guys in Ottawa this past week on exactly that charge.
Now, had we permitted their Syrian adventure, this story foretells their likely fate. Six Canadian jihadis dead in the last couple of months. In Syria.
That beats the hell outta arresting them at the airport on their way to glory, which just means they'll be clogging up the court system at vast public expense, indefinitely!
Those young idealists, if they wanna go to Syria to fight Assad, let 'em go!
Besides, they're just heading off to do their small part to complete the Harper-Baird mission of seeing Assad out the door. Why are we stopping them?
And also, (and we're in double-bonus territory here), once they're killed over there, we don't have to worry about them coming home and causing havoc here.
That's what's known as a "win-win," my friends!
The only bigger win would be if those guys would just forget the glory and focus on the doobie in the first place...
That would save a lot of folks a lot of grief!
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
How long can Erdogan defy the Empire?
It should be obvious by now that America and the NATO me-too states are spoiling for a regional war in a last desperate attempt to have their way with Assad, and insofar as it is an "independent" proto-state (of which I'm not convinced) Islamic State as well. Unfortunately, the Coalition of the Courageous is determined to have others fight that war on their behalf.
That's proving to be a problem. The Washington warmongers can't at this point be seen to give Assad a reprieve in his fight with Isis. The next most effective anti-ISIS forces are the Shia, who will always have more allegiance to Iran. The Kurds are next up, but they have proven ineffective and are themselves waiting for a NATO intervention to save them from the NATO-created Islamic State.
That leaves Turkey. Having been pressured to take a leading role in the creation of ISIS, Erdogan is in no rush to be pushed into providing the boots for America's ground war in Syria. The utterly pathetic hypocrisy Biden voiced when he accused Turkey of creating ISIS recently didn't go over well. This blog speculated two years ago that Assad could very well outlast Erdogan, a result that seems even likelier today.
The news that Turkey's thirty-year war on its Kurds has become a hot war again can only hasten Erdogan's demise. The propaganda organs of the Empire have lavished a lot of fawning attention on the Kurds for the past couple of years. They're the people in the neighbourhood who Israel can work with, so they're obviously the good guys, although we have by some oversight neglected erasing them from our ever-fickle "terror" lists.
So, Erdogan gets begonced, a more pliable leadership will be installed, and voila, America's regional war will have its boots on the ground!
And NATO will be spared the incongruity of a member state in the crusader alliance governed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
That's proving to be a problem. The Washington warmongers can't at this point be seen to give Assad a reprieve in his fight with Isis. The next most effective anti-ISIS forces are the Shia, who will always have more allegiance to Iran. The Kurds are next up, but they have proven ineffective and are themselves waiting for a NATO intervention to save them from the NATO-created Islamic State.
That leaves Turkey. Having been pressured to take a leading role in the creation of ISIS, Erdogan is in no rush to be pushed into providing the boots for America's ground war in Syria. The utterly pathetic hypocrisy Biden voiced when he accused Turkey of creating ISIS recently didn't go over well. This blog speculated two years ago that Assad could very well outlast Erdogan, a result that seems even likelier today.
The news that Turkey's thirty-year war on its Kurds has become a hot war again can only hasten Erdogan's demise. The propaganda organs of the Empire have lavished a lot of fawning attention on the Kurds for the past couple of years. They're the people in the neighbourhood who Israel can work with, so they're obviously the good guys, although we have by some oversight neglected erasing them from our ever-fickle "terror" lists.
So, Erdogan gets begonced, a more pliable leadership will be installed, and voila, America's regional war will have its boots on the ground!
And NATO will be spared the incongruity of a member state in the crusader alliance governed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Pot apologizes for calling kettle "black"
I see where the dunce Joe Biden has had to do a bit of a climb-down and apologize to Turkey's wily Erdogan for having suggested that Turkey has facilitated the entry of Islamic extremists into Syria.
Biden was correct in making that accusation of course. Turkey has been complicit in flooding Syria with anti-Assad rebels from the beginning of the "Syrian Spring." What Biden failed to mention was that Turkey was doing America's bidding at the time.
Those were the hopeful days when every anti-Assad rebel was a "freedom fighter" and Assad had only a few days or weeks to go before his brutal police state crumbled and democracy bloomed forth in its stead...
Another great example of plans going off the rails...
Now of course those freedom fighters have morphed into the most evil evildoers of all time. They are running wild throughout Syria and Iraq, sporting the best and the latest of American armaments, and threatening to over-run Jordan and Lebanon in the short term, and the rest of the neighbourhood a few months later.
To which the Nations of Virtue, who created this fanatical killing machine, are responding with yet another iteration of a "coalition of the not-so-willing" who propose to eliminate this threat to American hegemony in the Middle East by carpet bombing the Middle East.
That's bound to win us lots more hearts and minds...
Biden was correct in making that accusation of course. Turkey has been complicit in flooding Syria with anti-Assad rebels from the beginning of the "Syrian Spring." What Biden failed to mention was that Turkey was doing America's bidding at the time.
Those were the hopeful days when every anti-Assad rebel was a "freedom fighter" and Assad had only a few days or weeks to go before his brutal police state crumbled and democracy bloomed forth in its stead...
Another great example of plans going off the rails...
Now of course those freedom fighters have morphed into the most evil evildoers of all time. They are running wild throughout Syria and Iraq, sporting the best and the latest of American armaments, and threatening to over-run Jordan and Lebanon in the short term, and the rest of the neighbourhood a few months later.
To which the Nations of Virtue, who created this fanatical killing machine, are responding with yet another iteration of a "coalition of the not-so-willing" who propose to eliminate this threat to American hegemony in the Middle East by carpet bombing the Middle East.
That's bound to win us lots more hearts and minds...
Monday, November 5, 2012
The trouble with Fisk
Robert Fisk has for a long time courted more than his share of detractors.
Israeli's from the settler end of the political spectrum hate him because he thinks Palestinians have rights too.
Turks hate him because he never tires of writing about the Armenian massacres.
The Afghans beat him to a pulp because... well, mainly because he was a Westerner and he was there.
And on it goes.
I've always liked Fisk because he has the balls to tell it like he sees it regardless of who hates him.
That's a commendable quality in a journalist.
But I must admit he gets a bit self-indulgent at times. His dad admired Mussolini? Who cares? My dad admired Julia Child.
But who cares? That's not journalism, that's indulgence.
He's got a whole pack of Fisk-haters on his case now. Apparently he's been too chummy with Assad's military. Actually, he's doing a classic Fisk; talking to the people nobody else will talk to. What other Western journalist has risked talking to the regime? Assad is a rogue who butchers his own people just for fun is the standard line in Western media.
Bully for Fisk for going and talking to Assad's butchers.
The rest of the media are busy ingratiating themselves with various CIA backed "rebel" groups. Hell, even Canada's milquetoast CBC has a crew with the rebels!
So his latest column reeks of indulgence. He's off to Sweden to track down the source of those safety flares he saw in Syria.
He already knows the source of those flares. They come standard issue with every Volvo truck sold in Syria, and Volvo has been a major player in the heavy truck market in Syria, as throughout the Middle East, for a couple of generations.
Volvos come from Sweden, so Fisk is off to the second greatest Great White North.
I have no doubt that safety flares can be put to nefarious use. So can fertilizer. So can gasoline transports. So can butter knives.
But Fisk convinced his paymasters at The Independent to underwrite a trip to Sweden to get to the bottom of this story.
Hmm... the man makes his home in Beirut but suddenly he has a keen interest in exploring the provenance of some Volvo safety flares he saw in Syria...
Hey, if I lived in Beirut in these days of exploding car bombs and rival factions, I'd be looking for any excuse for a trip to Sweden too.
But that ain't journalism.
It's self-preservation.
Israeli's from the settler end of the political spectrum hate him because he thinks Palestinians have rights too.
Turks hate him because he never tires of writing about the Armenian massacres.
The Afghans beat him to a pulp because... well, mainly because he was a Westerner and he was there.
And on it goes.
I've always liked Fisk because he has the balls to tell it like he sees it regardless of who hates him.
That's a commendable quality in a journalist.
But I must admit he gets a bit self-indulgent at times. His dad admired Mussolini? Who cares? My dad admired Julia Child.
But who cares? That's not journalism, that's indulgence.
He's got a whole pack of Fisk-haters on his case now. Apparently he's been too chummy with Assad's military. Actually, he's doing a classic Fisk; talking to the people nobody else will talk to. What other Western journalist has risked talking to the regime? Assad is a rogue who butchers his own people just for fun is the standard line in Western media.
Bully for Fisk for going and talking to Assad's butchers.
The rest of the media are busy ingratiating themselves with various CIA backed "rebel" groups. Hell, even Canada's milquetoast CBC has a crew with the rebels!
So his latest column reeks of indulgence. He's off to Sweden to track down the source of those safety flares he saw in Syria.
He already knows the source of those flares. They come standard issue with every Volvo truck sold in Syria, and Volvo has been a major player in the heavy truck market in Syria, as throughout the Middle East, for a couple of generations.
Volvos come from Sweden, so Fisk is off to the second greatest Great White North.
I have no doubt that safety flares can be put to nefarious use. So can fertilizer. So can gasoline transports. So can butter knives.
But Fisk convinced his paymasters at The Independent to underwrite a trip to Sweden to get to the bottom of this story.
Hmm... the man makes his home in Beirut but suddenly he has a keen interest in exploring the provenance of some Volvo safety flares he saw in Syria...
Hey, if I lived in Beirut in these days of exploding car bombs and rival factions, I'd be looking for any excuse for a trip to Sweden too.
But that ain't journalism.
It's self-preservation.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Does the road to Damascus lead to Tehran?
The so-called Syrian uprising gives the think tank here at Falling Downs a bit of pause.
Let me be clear. Falling Downs is a friend of freedom everywhere and at all times. This is Freedom Central. In fact, I've been thinking about changing the name of the blog to The View From Freedom Central.
Wouldn't really work on the side of the barn. "Freedom Central". At least "Falling Downs" references, however obliquely, those Kentucky horse farms that populated the imagination of my youth.
But I digress. Syria has top billing in the mainstream news these days. That in itself is enough to make me suspicious. Why Syria?
Every day a new tally of the martyrs massacred by that monster Assad. The daily total tends to be less than the daily total of Americans murdered by other Americans on any given day. Ya, I know that's sort of an apple to oranges thing, but violence is violence and dead is dead.
The R2P arguments have been suspiciously absent thus far. If the virtuous west had to intervene in Libya before any civilians were killed, why has the virtuous west not intervened in Syria after seven thousand have been killed?
But I think it's coming. You're hearing it before it's news. It'll be R2P all over the place, and Assad's weapons of mass destruction, and OMG, look, that road goes straight to Tehran!
Let me be clear. Falling Downs is a friend of freedom everywhere and at all times. This is Freedom Central. In fact, I've been thinking about changing the name of the blog to The View From Freedom Central.
Wouldn't really work on the side of the barn. "Freedom Central". At least "Falling Downs" references, however obliquely, those Kentucky horse farms that populated the imagination of my youth.
But I digress. Syria has top billing in the mainstream news these days. That in itself is enough to make me suspicious. Why Syria?
Every day a new tally of the martyrs massacred by that monster Assad. The daily total tends to be less than the daily total of Americans murdered by other Americans on any given day. Ya, I know that's sort of an apple to oranges thing, but violence is violence and dead is dead.
The R2P arguments have been suspiciously absent thus far. If the virtuous west had to intervene in Libya before any civilians were killed, why has the virtuous west not intervened in Syria after seven thousand have been killed?
But I think it's coming. You're hearing it before it's news. It'll be R2P all over the place, and Assad's weapons of mass destruction, and OMG, look, that road goes straight to Tehran!
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