printAl Jazeera, “headquartered in Doha,” “is the “broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation.” Toward Syria, the Gulf state of Qatar has adopted the regime-change policy of Saudi Arabia (in particular), the Arab League (in general), John McCain’s, Sean Hannity’s, and as many liberals. While Qatar intensifies its efforts to overthrow Syrian President Bashar, it is, simultaneously, supporting Bahrain’s crackdown on dissent. (An Al Jazeera correspondent out of Beirut was so enraged by the network’s bias that he resigned.)
In the Middle East it all boils down to faction and tribe.
Not so long ago, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, ruler of Qatar, asserted that “Arab countries should send troops into Syria.”
We can agree with the Sheikh that the US has no business in Syria. But good luck to him in handling Arab civil wars regionally. South African President Jacob Zuma’s attempted to deal with Libya locally (in the Continent), but the “gorgon who heads Caesar’s state department” (Hillary) would have none of it.
Not even the African Union, which has a good working relationship with warlords, could keep the Über dogs of war of (America masquerading as “NATO”) from leveling Libya. The rest is history.
When America turns stable but brutal Syria into Lebanon with its perpetual civil warfare, will the people thank us for our “help”?
How many will die in Libya from the instability America caused? Besides the 4 million exiled (internally and externally) since America “liberated” Iraq, how many were killed? What happened to the Christian community of Iraq? What happened to the Jewish community of Iraq after the British liberated it from the Ottomans? How many have died in Afghanistan since America went and installed Hamid Karzai and how many will die when America leaves? How are things in Pakistan lately? How many were killed in the Congo since we helped put kleptocrat Mobutu in power there? How many more were killed in Uganda under Obote than Amin? Why did Jimmy “human rights” Carter back Pol Pot, the butcher of 2 million Cambodians? Why did the US intervene to stop the North Vietnamese from killing 100,000 in the South at the cost of 4 million Indochinese and 60,000 American lives not to mention the injured, the ruined crops, and the brain injuries?
300 people get murdered EACH WEEK in South Africa – will we invade??? [At, plus-minus, 60 a day, The Cannibal calculated 420. But the ANC claims things are a bit better… Or maybe the murderers rest on the week-end.]
In reflecting upon the happenings, and My Ron Paul I’s opening comment with stats, it is made obvious, I think, that democratic urges in the West have risen, finally, to an absolute value such as claimed by socialists over the last century. Anything other than democracy is of lesser value than democracy and, it stands to reason, that includes human life.
Having exchanged regimes for democracies the body counts may rise but, mirabile dictu, “they will have asked for it”.