tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post5959971862745935898..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: Abedi's AccomplicesMERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-34086505989893956272017-05-26T10:58:25.700+10:002017-05-26T10:58:25.700+10:00Notice how the word 'why' seems to have fa...Notice how the word 'why' seems to have fallen out of fashion these days?MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-35955792120718956122017-05-26T08:52:09.790+10:002017-05-26T08:52:09.790+10:00Apologies for taking us a bit away from the Middle...Apologies for taking us a bit away from the Middle East. One of the excuses, given in the British report, for the invasion of Libya is, as stated there, "The Bosnian Serb Army killed more than 8,000 Muslims near the town of Srebrenica in July 1995." The argument in the report is that the West had been too slow to prevent this and so more inclined in act early in Libya to prevent a similar situation. However, the same kind of propaganda forces were at work in Bosnia as in Libya. The massacre of 8000 Bosnian Muslims is widely disputed. Herman's book "The Politics of Genocide" examines it, and there is a discussion with Herman at this website:<br /><br />http://www.slavicnet.com/sokolac/sokolac_srebrenica_eng_forum.html<br /><br />All is not as reported in the Western media, and much needed context was missing from the narrative. Ultimately one has to ask why the media, including government media, are doing this. Grapplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14967100340986309879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-45631084240122296132017-05-26T06:59:53.872+10:002017-05-26T06:59:53.872+10:00It is worth repeating (I have said it before) that...It is worth repeating (I have said it before) that this report by the British Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee on the Libyan incursion by UK and France is definitely worth a read.<br /><br />https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmfaff/119/119.pdf<br /><br /><br />From the summary:<br /><br />"In March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the support of the United States, led the international community to support an intervention in Libya to protect civilians from attacks by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. This policy was not informed by accurate intelligence. In particular, the Government failed to identify that the threat<br />to civilians was overstated and that the rebels included a significant Islamist element. By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change. That policy was not underpinned by a strategy to support and shape post-Gaddafi Libya. The result was political and economic collapse,<br />inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. Through his decision making in the National<br />Security Council, former Prime Minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy."<br />Grapplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14967100340986309879noreply@blogger.com