Comments on: Broken Spring? https://www.redpepper.org.uk/global-politics/palestine-middle-east/broken-spring/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:30:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: RichardL https://www.redpepper.org.uk/global-politics/palestine-middle-east/broken-spring/#comment-62456 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:13:57 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=6995#comment-62456 NATO apologist little richardjohn is simply pumping propaganda. NATO has never done anything for humanitarian ends. It is a military instrument of war that never reveals how many it kills and injures, how much damage it inflicts, never cooperates with inquiries or truth seekers. Neither has it ever rebuilt what it has damaged or destroyed.

NO, what happens next in Syria is no Sami’s call; you’re stating the blatantly obvious there. But his analysis is sound and yours in biased and myopic: ignoring the fact that the armed rebels too, are ruthless, tyrannical and uninterested in international law. The most realistic predictions suggest more than 100,000 dead, perhaps one million refugees, while nobody bothers to predict the number of injured (that includes the limbless, those crippled for life, those whose lives are destroyed, those in constant pain, the maimed, the battered, the physically and emotionally scarred…). What care you for this Little richardjohn? Certainly nowhere near enough, if anything at all.

]]> By: little richardjohn https://www.redpepper.org.uk/global-politics/palestine-middle-east/broken-spring/#comment-60942 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:50:50 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=6995#comment-60942 “They would like us to believe that Nato’s intervention in Libya, for example, is based solely on humanitarian impulses rather than being part of its quest to protect its interests in the region. ” In fact it was both. The two are not incompatible, and are sometimes linked.
‘It is clear that the current alternative to the Syrian dictators, in the absence of a strong unified democratic movement, is bloody sectarian strife..’
Not your call. People set the value on their own lives, and how to spend them.
And your predictions are no more valid than others. The most realistic predictions show Assad continuing his slaughter and tyranny, and the self-styled Progressive left fiddling while Syria burns.
Instead of indulging in post-Iraq points scoring, ‘The Left’ should be trying to engage with the embryonic Syrian democratic movement, and offer the kind of support it is entitled to expect.

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