Turning the Cradle of Civilization Into its Graveyard

[Judi Lynn]

September 7, 2015
Turning the Cradle of Civilization Into its Graveyard

by Diana Johnstone

Paris.

This Monday, September 7, seven Syrian citizens go to court in Paris to pursue their civil suit against French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. The five men and two women all lost family members and close friends in massacres by armed rebels supported by Fabius in word and deed. They are asking for one euro of symbolic damages.

In the end the suit will almost surely be thrown out. The September 7 hearing is on an appeal against an earlier ruling that the courts cannot judge acts of the government in this case, even if the complaint is founded. And yet this futile lawsuit makes a crucial point that Western politicians and media would much prefer to ignore.

Western leaders share major responsibility for making much of the world unfit for normal human habitation. And so far, they are getting away with it. The massive refugee crisis swamping Europe is just the beginning of the troubles that these unscrupulous leaders have brought on their own countries.

Laurent Fabius can fairly be called a French neoconservative. His alignment with Israeli policies is seen in the fact that he was the most reluctant of the foreign ministers involved in the Iranian nuclear negotiations to agree to the final settlement.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/07/turning-the-cradle-of-civilization-into-its-graveyard/

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Judi Lynn.

[polly7]

2. Great article, TY Judi-Lynn.

All of this was easily predicted, I can't believe those at the top who fought to bring it about didn't know 100% what they were unleashing.

Calling for the removal of Assad, as with Hussein, Gaddafi, is handing Syria to IS. Is that what the goal is now? Why are we always propping up the worst of the worst? When I look at all of the 'interventions' in the ME and NA - and now, more and more into the whole of Africa and the horrors we've caused - WTF are we even doing over there? It's obvious we're not there in hopes for peace for those millions suffering so horribly. The arrogance it takes to play with the lives of human beings who did nothing to us like they're checkers on a board just stuns me at times .. it really does.

The current refugee crisis in Europe is the inevitable, foreseeable, predicted result of Western policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Gaddafi’s Libya was the wall that kept hundreds of thousands of Africans from migrating illegally to Europe, not only by police methods but even more effectively by offering them development at home and decently paid jobs in Libya. Now Libya is the source both of economic migrants and of refugees from Libya itself, as well as from other lands of desperation. In order to weaken Sudan, the United States (and Susan Rice in particular) championed creation of the new country of South Sudan, which is not a country at all but the scene of rival massacres driving more and more fugitives toward unwelcoming countries.

There is another reason that many European citizens feel less than enthusiastic about welcoming hundreds of thousands of unknown foreigners into their communities. The Islamic State has openly boasted of sending terrorists into Europe among the refugees, with the clear intention of committing violent acts to destabilize the West. Of course, the threat of terrorism is being used cynically by governments to enforce police state measures, but that does not mean that the threat of terrorism is unreal. Unfortunately, it exists – thanks very largely to the policies of those very same Western governments.

The refugee crisis should be seen as the warning signal that the United States and its NATO allies – especially Britain and France – are bringing the world to a state of chaos that is going to keep spreading and that is approaching a point of no return. It is quick and easy to break things. Putting them back together may be impossible. Civilization itself may be more fragile than it seems.

[flamingdem]

3. It will be millions

Especially with climate change trown in and then in reaction facistic politicians will reap rewards.