I'm not going to add to the torrent of media babble about last week's shopping and torching disturbances. Any enjoyment I might have got from the sight of politicians and opinion makers elbowing their way up towards the moral high ground to condemn all rioting as 'unexcusable', and trying to outdo one another coming up with the most brutal, vile, spiteful or bizzarre punishment for the perpetrators, was spoiled for me when about Tuesday I watched this video clip.
NATO KILLS 85 CIVILIANS IN LIBYA
Watch it, it's heartbreaking.
The village, called Majer, 150km east of Tripoli, to which NATO brought this massacre has no military significance, no troops, bases nor installations. All the people killed were civilians, including 33 children. Unfortunately for this village it is on the invasion route to Tripoli from the east, and some NATO arsehole decided it needed to be 'neutralized'. To say this represents a serious war crime doesn't begin to describe it.
So when I heard the word 'moral collapse'' coming out of the mouth on Cameron's smooth face I felt like punching it..
Is it not Camron's direct responsibility, this casual massacre of civilians? Not the responsibility of Sarkozy? They're protecting the skins of hardworking Libyans, you might say, from the depredations of the cruel tyrant. Killing children is an unfortunate collateral consequence of this essentially humanitarian endeavor.
The political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance, who diverted the object and purpose of Resolution 1973 to engage in a war of aggression against a sovereign state, are personally responsible before international justice. Indeed, according to the jurisprudence established by the Tokyo Court following the Second World War, crimes cannot be ascribed to either States or organizations, but to individuals. - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28882.htm
And it also struck me, watching these agitated mouths and chins, that our governing elites have form when it comes to trashing and torching cities: Belgrade, Tripoli, Baghdad, are just a few that come to mind. And as for looting, our disappointing children who lay hands on the odd telly, a pair of jeans or box of crisps, are no match for the US Special Forces, who, in a single night in Baghdad in 2003, ransacked most of the material heritage of an entire civilisation. But we should take the realistic view, nation states do not have morals, they have interests.
Should it matter which side, the winners or the losers, committed the war crimes?
Here's an interesting piece about what's happening in Libya:
Who Will Save Libya From Its Western Saviours?
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