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| Talk, Don't Bomb, Former U.N. Officials Urge in Appeal on Syria |
| 2013-09-03 |
| [An Nahar] Former high-ranking U.N. officials urged the United States and others Monday to refrain from bombing Syria over a devastating chemical attack, and instead work harder to broker a political solution in the war-torn country. Former deputy chief of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Hans-Christof von Sponeck launched the appeal in Swiss daily Le Temps' online edition, with support from his former U.N. colleagues Denis Halliday, Said Zulficar, Samir Radwan and Samir Basta. "True courage does not consist in sending in cruise missiles, ... it consists in radically breaking from this murderous logic," wrote von Sponeck, who coordinated the U.N.'s humanitarian actions in Iraq from 1998 to 2000. Because I'm an old fart and my mind is mostly gone, that statement doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I'm trying to recall the instance when the Pencilneck regime talked instead of gassing. One side can radically break from the murderous logic all it pleases, but if the other side continues to kill people, they'll continue to be dead forever. The statement would thus seem to lack any vestige of the concept of justice or accountability. But nobody listens to me. I'm just an old crank. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 "Blowed up real good" is a form on self actualization in mideastern cultures... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-09-03 18:49 |
| #3 Its really a problem with this neo-liberalism, like a drug dealer using the product, at some level they think they can turn cordite into pollen with a song and meditate a fire out of a hay bale. I don't know of Hansy or any of these people actually believe it, but that is the call and appeal they choose to tack, and it implies a real passive fatalism, as opposed to letting the fire burn out or putting the gloves on and getting in the soot, it is looking at the fire and wishing it could not have caught fire. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-09-03 09:20 |
| #2 Because Moslem Values don't have any problem with gassing civilians or anybody else, for that matter. Its a Culture thing. Sort of thing you expect from the religion of piss thingy. Well,,, hhmmm don't you? It seems THEY do. Moslems really don't have a problem with poison gas...Nasser even used it. Remember? |
| Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 2013-09-03 06:42 |
| #1 Well, Fred we don't hear the Arab nation screaming in indignation now do we?. Why are we the only nation that is crying that is a sin against humanity.? Maybe the Brits and or the French, but why not any other countries in the region? |
| Posted by: texhooey 2013-09-03 00:22 |