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Showing Original Post only (View all)Robert Parry: Obama’s Novel Lawyering to Bomb Syria [View all]
from Consortium News:
Obamas Novel Lawyering to Bomb Syria
September 23, 2014
Exclusive: The U.S. government likes international law when it serves Washingtons purposes, but not when it constrains U.S. desires to use military force. Then, the rules are bent, ignored or subjected to novel lawyering, as President Obama is doing with airstrikes into Syria, reports Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
The Obama administration has devised an extraordinary legal justification for carrying out bombing attacks inside Syria that the United States and its Persian Gulf allies have the right to defend Iraq against the Islamic State because the Syrian government is unable to stop the cross-border terror group.
The Syrian regime has shown that it cannot and will not confront these safe havens effectively itself, said the U.S. letter delivered by Ambassador Samantha Power to United Nations officials. Accordingly, the United States has initiated necessary and proportionate military actions in Syria in order to eliminate the ongoing ISIL [Islamic State] threat to Iraq, including by protecting Iraqi citizens from further attacks and by enabling Iraqi forces to regain control of Iraqs borders.
Yet, beyond the danger to world order if such an expansive theory is embraced by the international community (does anyone remember how World War One got started?), there is the hypocrisy of the U.S. government and many of those same Gulf allies arming, training and funding Syrian rebels for the purpose of preventing the Syrian military from controlling its territory and then citing that lack of control as the rationale to ignore Syrias sovereignty.
In other words, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and other enemies of Syria covertly backed the rebels inside Syria and watched as many of them including thousands of the U.S.-preferred moderates took their newly acquired military skills to al-Qaeda affiliates and other terrorist organizations. Then, the U.S. and its allies have the audacity to point to the existence of those terror groups inside Syria as a rationale for flying bombing raids into Syria. ..................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/23/obamas-novel-lawyering-to-bomb-syria/
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''Money trumps peace.'' -- appointed pretzeldent George Walker Bush, Feb. 14, 2007
Octafish
Sep 2014
#1
Holy frakin's crap! So the UN was LYING in 2005 when it named the head of Khorasan and its
msanthrope
Sep 2014
#10
I'm guessing you finally googled and found out that Khorasan is actually an AlQaeda
msanthrope
Sep 2014
#13
Nope--I'm using my own extensive posts on Anwar Awlaki and other Yemeni targets.
msanthrope
Sep 2014
#17
I love how when Obama actually bombs the subject matter of the AUMF--Al Qaeda---
msanthrope
Sep 2014
#14