The first guest, Louise Arbour, supported the war crimes meme currently circulating in western MSM and government agencies. Barton asked about Canada's UN initiatives which have gone nowhere. Arbour's response accepted the war crime premise, and placed the blame on the UN and the ICC as being ineffective and their actions insufficient in the past (as per Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Darfur). She reported that they (someone) is "collecting...accumulated evidence" of the "devastation" as Aleppo "falls completely to the regime." The U.S. is not party to the ICC, and Russia has recently withdrawn because of its evident western bias and its true ineffectiveness.
Barton ended asking if Arbour was "anyway hopeful for the people of Syria?" The response was a clear "No", qualified by saying that the civilians were "hostage to both sides." Time will tell what happens in Aleppo, but so far from what I have seen, most of the citizens are very happy to see the end of the rebel/terrorist occupation and hostage holding in eastern Aleppo. Arbour called it a "very dark day." Crazy, hey, I thought it was the best news to come out of the war so far - yes, I know, more civilians will die, in Mosul as well as Aleppo, and on to Idlib and Raqqa - but at least the scourge of fundamentalist terrorism has been alleviated and hopefully seriously restricted for this important city.
Stephane Dion was the second guest, and stuck with the main themes of the afternoon. Barton again began with comments about "shelling is a war crime" (really Rosemary?) in pockets of east Aleppo. Dion attempted to explain what Canada was doing via the UN which effectively highlighted Canada's ineffectiveness. Part of the discussion actually entertained the idea of removing the veto from Russia in the Security Council - a great idea if the same would apply to the other four veto holders, the U.S., France, Great Britain, and China. In other words allow the General Assembly to hold the true power, but that of course goes against 'western' wishes for dominance globally.
I missed a short section then returned to find Britain's Stephen O'Brien essentially doing the British lap dog thing for the U.S. Empire. If one ever wants to hear any kind of rant containing double standards, lies, and false humanitarianism, just listen to those who still believe that Britain is an imperial power. It is in a way, but only as mentioned, as a U.S. poodle.
O'Brien's supercilious self-righteousness for humanitarian concerns would bring a tear to even the most jaded eye. Mine were tears of cynical jaded laughter as to the willful ignorance of his overwrought self-satisfied rectitude and virtue, typical British imperial rhetoric. Repeating the memes of a fallen Aleppo and war crimes, O'Brien used such wonderful phrases as "heinous and abominable acts...atrocities," in his attempts to be the civilizer, the bringer of benevolence to the world. At the end, responding to Barton's question concerning when Aleppo were to be "run over entirely", he indicated it was a "man-made crisis" and those that "perpetrated these abominations" should be brought to justice.
War crimes? Well, where should we start?
Perhaps we should start most recently in Libya, where the British promoted no-fly zone turned into a bomb anything that will help the rebels, all on the pretext of a supposed genocide, the now thoroughly disrepute "right to protect." Certainly war crimes were committed there by Britain, and Canada, and the U.S., and every other participant. The military equipment used to supply the 'rebels' - really another branch of al-Qaeda - was redistributed to the protesters in Syria and the African Sahel. Who are the people responsible for that who should be brought to justice for their abominable actions? Hint: it wasn't the Russians.
Or maybe we can go back to all the war crimes that started and followed with the U.S. push for war in Iraq, based on lies and deception from the U.S. government, all departments including the military and the CIA, as well as the full Congress. Britain followed suit with its false declarations by the Blair government in order to reinvigorate the aged and poorly preserved ethos of the British Empire and its civilizing role in the world. That led to war crimes throughout Iraq, including Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, Tikrit, and on through other prisons where the rise of al-Qaeda in Iraq essentially occurred as it had not been there originally. As a consequence of other events, that led to the rise of ISIS and the current war in Iraq and Syria. Hint: the Russians weren't involved.
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