Protect Syria: Will Samantha Power’s words fool us again?

After several hours of closed-door Security Council Consultations at the United Nations on Thursday, February 13, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power came out in front of the press to do what she does best.

Power gave a speech bemoaning what she called “the greatest humanitarian crisis of our generation.” She gave statistics of “6.8 million Syrians in need of assistance…. There were 4.25 million internally displaced persons…” She spoke of “images of emaciated and tortured Syrians, of dead and dying children, and of so much more.”

Samantha Power has been the UN Ambassador for several months now, after a lengthy career as one of the many voices reciting this same narrative. Each performance is delivered with a different cast of characters, in different corner the globe where some government has defied Wall Street and neo-liberalism, and the pentagon is itching to attack. The public, of course, must be psyched up to support arming the terrorists, sending the cruise missiles, and overthrowing the Syrian government.

Syria was a relatively peaceful and economically prosperous country, compared to many of its neighbors. The Syrian Arab Republic was a country where Christians, Alawites, Sunnis, and Shias lived side by side. The government has stood up to Israel and Washington, DC, countless times and now US arms and weapons are flowing into the hands of insurgent groups who seek to overthrow it. Much like the ‘contras’ who once played a similar role in Nicaragua, these terrorists, many of them paid mercenaries – are not the nicest of people.

The United Nations reports on children in armed conflict point out that the insurgent groups in Syria, which continue to receive weapons and funding from the United States, have children as young as 11 and 12 among their ranks. Children from all across the region are being actively recruited by sectarian religious groups to go and fight to overthrow the Syrian Arab Republic. The US government, along with its allies in the region like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Qatar, are providing money and weapons to these organizations.

Child Soldiers is only an “issue that demands action” if it’s used to justify more military bases in Africa. The children forcibly recruited into Syrian terrorist groups are the most “invisible children” of all. Power speaks harshly of Syrian government, while very government she represents is arming and supporting their ongoing suffering.

Obama has just announced that the US will give a loan of $1 billion to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan which is said to help arm Syrian terrorists. Currently Jordan hosts hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, and many of the children are being recruited to fight against Syrian government.

This kind of human rights hypocrisy is definitive of Power’s career, and of the US and European discourse on ‘human rights’ in general. Power’s career began with promoting US intervention in Serbia. While her writings bemoaned atrocities blamed on Slobodan Milosevic (many later proven to false), she ignored the crimes of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a group of religious terrorists, who also received loads of weapons and funding from the United States.

The US media, Power among its ranks, created a ‘human rights’ frenzy, with Western TV audiences sobbing about ‘mass rapes’ and ‘concentration camps’ and thinking the US was intervening to rescue the helpless victims. Public support was built up for a horrendous bombing campaign that resulted in thousands of Serbians being killed.

President Obama, Samantha Power, promote the cause of the torturing, kidnapping, and child recruiting insurgent groups. Syria has been torn apart already by four years of war, financed by Western countries that want the independent government removed.

But let’s look at the track record of these kinds of ‘interventions’. The lives of the people never improve. The ‘human rights’ situation often gets much worse.

If insurgents are victorious in their push for ‘government change’ in Syria, it is clear that the Syrians will be far worse off. Neo-liberalism will triumph over nationalism and independence. Quality of life will decrease. Poverty will rise. Chaos and war will replace stability. The people Power, Obama, and all the others are ‘taking a stand’ for, will be far worse off.

It has happened over and over again. US bombs don’t bring freedom.

With Syria already torn apart by years of war as the US funds terrorist insurgent groups who clearly cannot win by themselves, with the voices calling for ‘humanitarian intervention’, with an endless media campaign demonizing a government that has long defied Wall Street, Tel Aviv, and Washington, DC, the question is: will Samantha Power’s beautiful words fool us again?

Source:Caleb Maupin for RT

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