So, why does Ms Power, the American Ambassador to the United Nations, and her British and French colleagues not call a Security Council meeting on what their Saudi and UAE allies are doing to Yemen and the Yemenis?
Is it that the lives of the Yemenis do not matter to them or that they do not matter to them as much as the lives of their, the Americans, British and French Syrian proxy fighters in Aleppo? Are we to believe that this unholy trinity of British, French and American governments are really more concerned for the lives of Syrian civilians, than they do for the lives of Yemeni civilians?
That Ms Power is not only playing with words when she accuses the Russians of "barbarism" in their bombing of Aleppo, but assumes a position of mutism, when it comes to the Saudis, and, by implications, both the British and the Americans, mercilessly bombing Yemen back into the stone age? Doubtlessly on the basis that that country, according to their worldview, is little more than a geo-political piece of real estate, and that, instead of allowing the Houthis to have control of it, they prefer to destroy it.
Yes, Ms Power, you, like your government, is behaviing hypocritically, even if, why it proves expedient, you pretend to 'be even handed' in your analysis and conclusion. So, let the pretence ends now; it is not about whether the action of the Syrian Government and her foreign allies meets the definition of "barbarism", since all wars, including the one your government is fighting in Yemen, are "barbarous." Instead, it is about which sides the Russians, the British, the French, the Iranians and the other foreign governments support, and which sides they want to 'win' the conflict or to retain the upper hand.
The west - America, France and Britain - are petrified that the Syrian government could route the rebels in eastern Aleppo, and deprive them of their influence to manipulate what happens in Syria. This is at the crux of the hypocritical and juvenile tantrum which we are seeing from the British, American and French ambassadors to the United Nations.
My take on them walking out when the Syrian Ambassador began to address the Security Council, would be for them to keep walking. With a bit of luck, they might even end up in Aleppo, where they could have a first hand view of what their countries' policy toward that conflict have wrought on it and its people.
All the more reason why the battle for Aleppo needs to continue and that the Syrian Government is successful in driving out the rebels; and, ipso fact, remove at least some of the negative and divisive influences of America, France and Britain on the fate of Syrian and their country.
Beware doubly aware when politicians proclaim themselves to be concerned with the welfare of one group of civilians, while showing marked disregard for the welfare of those being killed by 'their allies or proxies.'
No comments:
Post a Comment