tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post6079860561363607302..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: Syria, Where Next?AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-31327490461552062332018-09-09T19:55:46.031+01:002018-09-09T19:55:46.031+01:00AM,
It's hard to argue with your point...AM,<br /> It's hard to argue with your point. Some justice is better than none. I don't mean disrespect to victims of Assad, Russia when i point out the US etc is just as guilty. The contradictions are irritating but then it's the nature of the beast. The one thing i will question is the "we either oppose war crimes or we don't" comment. If by we you mean western Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14120277877011965034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-44822740374038163682018-09-09T15:27:14.715+01:002018-09-09T15:27:14.715+01:00David,
we either oppose war crimes or we don'...David,<br /><br />we either oppose war crimes or we don't. And as you suggest exclusively blaming war crimes on opponents of the empire sullies the concept. <br /><br />My problem with not going for trials in the ICC or the Hague against people like Bagosora on the grounds that Kissinger or Netanyahu are not tried there is that it means the victims of the war crimes committed by Bagosora get AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-60200153425073399032018-09-09T13:25:48.696+01:002018-09-09T13:25:48.696+01:00"No NATO forces in Syria"...? Complete l..."No NATO forces in Syria"...? Complete lunacy. Enough said.Wolfe tonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240967708414139476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-76898990333749813182018-09-09T10:31:25.233+01:002018-09-09T10:31:25.233+01:00Barry,
where we see a slanderous or libellous com...Barry,<br /><br />where we see a slanderous or libellous comment as distinct from plain name calling or the normal rough and tumble that goes with the internet debate turf, we intervene. Wolfe Tone's lunatic comment is hardly slanderous, any more than the political discourse that regards Trump as a maniac is. You have raised objections on a number of occasions to criticisms of your comments AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-32180517227032129232018-09-09T03:16:30.702+01:002018-09-09T03:16:30.702+01:00Barry,
For every example you give I co...Barry,<br /> For every example you give I could counter with examples of the opposite. What would be the point though? To me it's obvious uprisings that are non indigenous lead to an occupied state with the inevitable consequences. war crimes should be defined by the action not the intention. A.M you could argue that justice is an abstract notion. For the benefit of argument let&#Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14120277877011965034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-51375909458866322912018-09-09T01:26:19.846+01:002018-09-09T01:26:19.846+01:00Wolfe Tone
Is your "lunatic" comment a ...Wolfe Tone<br /><br />Is your "lunatic" comment a reference to my supposed state of mental health by any chance?<br /><br />I do remember your "keep him away from children" insinuation against me; just remember that this weblog is governed by the laws of slander.<br /><br />Btw, before launching on your conspiracy theory rants on Syria do some basic fact checking. There are Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-66547731501541998662018-09-08T10:32:08.613+01:002018-09-08T10:32:08.613+01:00As i said......only a lunatic would.........As i said......only a lunatic would.........Wolfe tonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240967708414139476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-18056945340408918502018-09-08T07:09:20.160+01:002018-09-08T07:09:20.160+01:00David,
justice in this world is rarely administer...David,<br /><br />justice in this world is rarely administered by the just. As the Czech proverb holds the big thieves hang the little ones. But what should be the fate of people like Assad, Bagosora, Netanyahu, Kissinger? They are all serious war criminals. The ethical case is probably as you describe it but the realpolitik one is that if the unjust don't try the unjust there is a race to AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-2027235925545791942018-09-08T01:34:15.455+01:002018-09-08T01:34:15.455+01:00David
Interventionism saved countless lives in Ko...David<br /><br />Interventionism saved countless lives in Kosovo in 1999, Sierra Leone in 2000, Kurdish Northern Iraq in 1991 and in the East Timor independence process 1999-2001. Were these interventions seriously war crimes? Was Vietnam's liberation of Cambodia from Pol Pot (admittedly for reasons of national self-interest) in 1979 and India's intervention in Bangladesh in 1971(same Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8824889830546187192018-09-07T20:12:50.442+01:002018-09-07T20:12:50.442+01:00Barry,
Interventionism has never result...Barry,<br /> Interventionism has never resulted in less deaths. How can you have perpetrators of war crimes punishing war crimes? Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14120277877011965034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-15626032638136261292018-09-07T08:16:16.752+01:002018-09-07T08:16:16.752+01:00Only a complete lunatic or NATO terror apologist w...Only a complete lunatic or NATO terror apologist would deem themselves more knowledgable than a former Brit ambassador to Syria. Only a complete lunatic or NATO apologist would allege NATO doesn't intefere in sovereign countries and is a peace keeping force. <br />If only saddam had not given his WMD's to Al Qaeda who in turn gave them to Assad who in turn released all the Al Qaeda/ISIS/Wolfe tonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240967708414139476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-60346910815745744922018-09-07T00:03:30.460+01:002018-09-07T00:03:30.460+01:00It has been Assad and his Russian allies that have...It has been Assad and his Russian allies that have been responsible for the vast majority of civilian deaths in Syria. I can quote chapter and verse from human rights organisations reports to back this claim up but I do not expect the Wolfe Tones of this world who seem to have an identity tied up with belief in conspiracist theories around the Syrian conflict.<br /><br />There were no NATO Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-62730786948488350412018-09-06T20:18:29.917+01:002018-09-06T20:18:29.917+01:00Only a complete lunatic would imply the Syrian peo...Only a complete lunatic would imply the Syrian people are delighted their country has been levelled and their fellow country people murdered by western jihadists and western special forces in order to dethrone a secular govt. Only a complete lunatic or NATO apologist would imply the Syrian people wished this outcome. But if the cap fits.Wolfe tonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240967708414139476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-88277223376810354132018-09-06T17:38:59.893+01:002018-09-06T17:38:59.893+01:00Whatever you're political beliefs Syria has be...Whatever you're political beliefs Syria has been a humanitarian disaster, same with Iraq, Lybia and Yemen and that should be front and centre the next time we talk about intervention.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14120277877011965034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-49869656021718669642018-09-06T17:31:47.668+01:002018-09-06T17:31:47.668+01:00Wolfe Tone
You might like the views of this Ameri...Wolfe Tone<br /><br />You might like the views of this American establishment figure as you do with Brit establishment figure ex-Ambassador figure Robert Ford.<br /><br />http://bluevirginia.us/2018/09/photos-far-right-republican-virginia-state-sen-dick-black-travels-to-syria-to-praise-war-criminal-assad-blame-u-s-for-destroying-middle-east-etc<br /><br />I wonder of Israel was to declare its Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-22543076047022016352018-09-05T22:55:02.257+01:002018-09-05T22:55:02.257+01:00Wolfe Tone
Have you ever actually met or spoken t...Wolfe Tone<br /><br />Have you ever actually met or spoken to any Syrian refugees if only to satisfy your confirmation bias?<br /><br />Peter Tatchell speaks for me almost entirely in that piece. My only possible point of departure is that the red line on chemical weapons use should have been enforced after the Gouta sarin gas atrocity in August 2013; it didn't happen and the rest is RussianBarry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-24504379380764018752018-09-05T21:10:15.198+01:002018-09-05T21:10:15.198+01:00Wolfe Tone
The West did not lift a finger to help...Wolfe Tone<br /><br />The West did not lift a finger to help the democratic uprising in Syria just as they betrayed the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Extremists filled the vacuum and so the Syrian and Spanish Revolutions were doomed; crushed with the assistance of tyrannical great powers.<br /><br />Exactly what sort of "just desserts" (I remember a British Army commander Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-46718546760845810192018-09-04T20:03:26.041+01:002018-09-04T20:03:26.041+01:00Despite having everything threw at them from NATO ...Despite having everything threw at them from NATO and its lackeys, the SAA, along with its allies has successfully prevented Syria being reduced to another LIbya. The yanks proxy terror death squads have had their asses kicked and barring a ludicrous 'chemical attack' being blamed on Assad(again), we will see the death squads receive their just desserts very soon. God speed.Wolfe tonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240967708414139476noreply@blogger.com