Syria at the Mercy of the West's "Ministers of Terrorism"
Foreign Policy by Terrorists and Thugs in High Office
By Finian Cunningham
Global Research, August 19, 2012
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=32408
Murder,
sabotage, bribery, contract killings -- and that’s just the behavior of
Western political leaders and their Arab allies. Forget the fancy
titles, manners and clothes -- ongoing violence in Syria shows that the
foreign policy of these powers is being conducted by terrorists and
thugs in high offices. Which let’s one glimpse what level of barbarity
is being perpetrated by the Western terror army, running amok in the
streets and villages of Syria.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague (L) and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (file photo)
The latest display of criminality in high office is the call by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius for the “smashing” of Syria and the killing of its president, Bashar al-Assad. The words may have been spoken with an eloquent French accent, but their practical meaning has all the savagery of cold-blooded bludgeoning.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague (L) and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (file photo)
The latest display of criminality in high office is the call by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius for the “smashing” of Syria and the killing of its president, Bashar al-Assad. The words may have been spoken with an eloquent French accent, but their practical meaning has all the savagery of cold-blooded bludgeoning.
What we are seeing is a descent into barbarism and an
open embrace of international lawlessness -- by the same governments
that appoint themselves to lecture the rest of the world on the
principles of democracy and human rights.
Reports and videos, showing that the Western-backed
mercenaries of the so-called Free Syrian Army are bolstered by al-Qaeda
brigades and other terrorists, have been greeted with barely veiled glee
in Washington and European capitals.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her
Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice have pointedly refused to
condemn the surge in bombing atrocities across Syria that have
accompanied the influx of terrorists into the country over recent
months. Indeed, Washington officials have effectively condoned such
barbarities by their studied silence. Rice has even made statements,
suggesting that more such atrocities will follow until the Syrian
president does what her government demands and surrenders office. In
mafia terminology, it’s called “making an offer he can’t refuse.”
The “terror” that Washington and other Western
governments have promoted as the defining existential threat to
democratic civilization over the past 10 years, has suddenly and
seamlessly morphed into “war with terror” when it comes to Syria. And
Western media that are intoxicated with hubris over supposed “free,
independent thinking” do not even raise a timid question about this
glaring contradiction. Indeed, these organs compound their intellectual
bankruptcy with moral bankruptcy by concealing their government’s
outrageous duplicity.
However, for those with eyes, when it comes to Syria,
the mask of Western pretence at defending international law and human
rights has now been ripped off. The face revealed is a grotesque,
salivating monster, whose motives are evidently selfish elite power and
domination in the strategic Middle East region. And this objective is to
be achieved by any means necessary -- foremost by the collusion with
bloodthirsty killers.
In asserting their geopolitical objective over Syria,
the Western governments are openly deploying terrorists and killers who
supposedly were the reason, why Western governments spent trillions of
dollars fighting foreign wars, invading and occupying sovereign
countries, destroying millions of innocent lives, incarcerating and
torturing thousands, and turning over democratic societies into
draconian police states.
US President Barack Obama has time and again lauded
American military veterans for their sacrifices in Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than 4,500 US forces were killed in Iraq, thousands more maimed
and psychologically destroyed, with record numbers committing suicide
once back home in Civvy Street. In Afghanistan, the death toll continues
to rise -- with a spate of ‘green on blue’ attacks, in which Afghan
security personnel turn their guns on American troops.
How must the families in the Iraqi city of Haditha
feel where, in 2005, US marines shot dead 25 inhabitants, including
women and children? -- Just one of countless other such massacres and
war crimes. Why were they killed in the putative “war on terror” that
has now become a US “war with terror”? Or how about the family of the
14-year-old Iraqi girl, who was gang-raped by an American platoon, which
then butchered her broken body to cover up their crime? Or the families
in Iraq’s Fallujah city, whose loved ones where incinerated with the
Pentagon white phosphorus bombs during 2004-2005? What was that
holocaust all about in the pursuit of a supposed war against terrorists,
the same terrorists, who are now armed, trained, and directed by
Washington, London, and Paris to overthrow the legal government of
Syria?
Or how about the thousands of unnamed villagers,
killed in remote areas of Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia in continuing
American drone attacks?
Fabius recently told reporters in Turkey, “The Syrian regime must be smashed fast.” He also called for Assad’s death.
Elsewhere, it is reported that Qatar, the West’s Arab
ally in the sabotage of Syria, has resorted to bribery to destabilize
the government in Damascus. Apparently, the Al Thani royal rulers of the
Persian Gulf emirate offered USD 1 million to the Syrian ambassador in
Mauritania to defect, thereby attempting to tarnish Assad’s government.
The Syrian Ambassador, targeted by the honey-trap, Hamad Albni,
denounced the bribe as “blatant interference” in his country’s affairs.
It was just the latest in a barrage of dirty tricks
that Qatar and the royal rulers of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates have engaged in against Syria, including bribing the nation’s
Army ranks to dessert, fabricating news stories on Arab media channels,
Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, and jamming the satellite signals for the
Syrian national broadcaster. The latter is a war crime, but don’t expect
the Western crime bosses in office to bat an eyelid over that.
This is on top of these billionaire rulers funneling
USD 100 million from their own impoverished, downtrodden countries to
pay for American and Israeli weapons and explosives that are being used
by the Western terrorist army to kill and maim women and children across
Syria.
Meanwhile, Oxbridge-educated British Foreign
Secretary William Hague announces with his ever-so-polite plumy accent
that “Her Majesty’s” government is to supply an extra USD eight million
to Syria. Not to help refugees or victims of Western-orchestrated
violence, but to help the terrorists escalate their campaign of tearing
that country apart and no doubt creating more refugees.
Clinton, Fabius, Hague and their royal Arab friends
may dress in fine clothes, speak with polished accents, and have
manicured, scented hands. But make no mistake. They may not pull the
triggers, slit throats, or switch the detonators. That’s for the goons
on the ground to do and to keep the blood from appearing on those
scented, lily-white hands of their bosses.
In the Orwellian world of Western governments, these
politicians are called “Foreign Ministers.” In the world of normative
reasoning and language, they are known simply as “Ministers of
Terrorism.”