COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY EDITH LEDERER IN THE
INDEPENDENT
“Amal Clooney urges
world leaders not to let Isis get away with genocide in passionate address to
UN”
Amal Clooney, like so many celebrities making speeches,
simply does not know what she is talking about.
Her ignorance on this topic should be embarrassing, but
celebrities are never embarrassed by the silliness of their words or they would
never rise to speak in the first place.
Besides such events at the UN have almost become entertainments,
complete with red carpet, interviews, cocktails, and endless flattery.
America’s behind-the-scenes efforts have made it so, emasculating the UN so it never
today is a source of attack on the world’s actual sources of evil.
Amal Clooney’s performance actually reminds me of another celebrity
who spoke at the UN in a similar fashion, Angelina Jolie.
Ms. Jolie made a showy appearance at the UN, complete with
interviews and cocktails, about stopping rape in war, surely about as realistic
a goal as having rules against killing in war.
Jolie then proceeded, a short time later, making a plea for
the West to get more aggressive against Assad, a plea, in other words, for more
killing in Syria. It just does not get more brainless than that.
Whatever Amal Clooney thinks, ISIS is not in the genocide
business.
“Genocide” means unequivocally the effort to destroy an
entire class of people of one kind or another, as a religious or an ethnic
group.
No informed person can claim this for ISIS, ugly though they
be.
But I forget myself, “genocide” has become one of those
terms for the red-carpet-cause set that requires almost daily denouncement even
when it is not happening and what they are talking about is something else
entirely.
Indeed, how very convenient to go around denouncing a
concept such as evil in theory while you ignore genuine, dripping-with-blood
evil before your eyes.
No mess, no complications, no political difficulties, no
effort – just self-praise for denouncing what almost everyone on the planet
already denounces. And America and its murderous allies can carry right on with
mass killing and destruction which is not genocide.
ISIS is the creation of Saudi Arabia, the United States,
Israel, Turkey, Oman, with lots of assistance from Britain and France.
Its only real jobs were to get rid of the past government of
Iraq which the US disliked and, more importantly, help destroy the government
of Syria and turn that country into a broken-up set of rump states. This last
was the big goal, a goal Israel absolutely cherishes.
ISIS succeeded in the first objective early on. It has
failed in the second, although it remains a potent force. Why is it potent?
Because it receives money and weapons and assistance from some or all of the
countries named above, still.
ISIS is such a rag-tag bunch of thugs (all the dark armies that
the CIA helps pull together in places under American proxy attack are like that:
collections of the world’s filth, lunatics, and violent opportunists - given
weapons and money and permission to go kill and destroy to their hearts’
content) that some of its lunatics pulled off insanely bloody and pointless
stunts which they videotaped.
But even some of the bloody stunts may have been deliberate
for intimidation purposes, and, in the case of the former leader of Iraq, they
worked because he simply ran away as they approached.
Those stunts did force people like Britain’s David Cameron
to respond to public concerns and pretend that he was fighting ISIS. The same
for the US, which ended doing two different things at the same time, seeming
attacks on ISIS and continuing secret support. Much of the supposed attacks on
ISIS were actually bombing Syrian infrastructure which hurt the country’s government
more than it did ISIS. Ditto for Cameron’s efforts.
The only people who have unequivocally gone after ISIS (and
other equally horrible American-supported proxy armies, such as Al-Nusra) are
Syria and Russia. Russia's intervention has changed the whole dynamic and
balance in Syria, and the US and its allies have struggled to deal with the
fact and come to a new position there.
The US establishment deeply resents the Russian intervention
because it helped thwart long worked-for goals, a fact which is very much at
work in current security service machinations against Trump, who famously said before
the election Russia should just be given a free hand in Syria.
America and its allies have never stopped wanting President
Assad's head, which for Israel is the sine
qua non of the whole dirty business.
