POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MICHAEL IGNATIEFF IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Michael Ignatieff yet again proves what a remarkably thoughtless
person he is for someone who enjoyed the status of an intellectual concerned
with human rights.
But then, even in his old sinecure at Harvard, Ignatieff
frequently defended American imperial interests and displayed no concern for
America's increasing violence and authoritarianism in the world.
The horrors in Syria exist for one reason only, and that is
America's effort to determine the future of most of the countries of the Middle
East for the benefit of its imperial satrapy in the region, Israel, itself a
country which regularly kills, tortures, kidnaps, imprisons, and steals.
Turkey's behavior in offering the "rebels" refuge
and border access and its threats against Syria are all at the behind-the
scenes behest of the U.S.
The American Ambassador recently killed in Libya - another
American disaster - was involved in smuggling weapons and Islamic fighters into
Syria. That's why no one in Obama's government can give an honest accounting of
the event.
Some of the thugs fighting in Syria are the kind of people
the U.S. wouldn't even admit through its own border, yet it seems perfectly
okay for them to go to Syria and murder and destroy.
The hypocrisy and lack of ethics are stunning.
Israel's murderous thug of a prime minister of course just
chuckles at Syria being tied down in such a bloody mess.
The aim here is to destabilize Syria, perhaps dividing it
into parts, and removing the Syrian army as a piece on the Middle East
chessboard.
The fact is that Assad, like Hussein, provides a secular
government in a region torn with religious hostilities. That's why Islamists
hate him. Treatment of women too is better than in many parts of the Middle
East.
But none of that counts when the U.S. decides in private
that it is time for change in your region of the world.
The country which has killed millions over recent decades
now feels entitled to control events anywhere its fancy takes it.
And flacks like Ignatieff - for that is what he is - help
form the chorus of support for evil.
He's trying desperately, I think, to reclaim his sinecure at
Harvard.
