Syria: Next for Libya-style ‘humanitarian’ intervention?
Madison Ruppert
Activist Post
October 23, 2011
With the destruction of Libya winding down, the Western imperialist machine is looking for the next target for destabilization and exploitation.
If John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is any indication, it is likely the case that Syria is on the top of the list.
I have speculated about Syria being the next target for foreign military intervention under the guise of humanitarianism for several months now, dating back to early April.
The evidence for this position has only grown since then and the public statements from McCain at a meeting of the World Economic Forum in Jordan made it that much more concrete.
“Now that military operations in Libya are ending, there will be renewed focus on what practical military operations might be considered to protect civilian lives in Syria,” said McCain at the World Economic Forum meeting.
McCain raises prospect of military option in Syria
AFP
October 23, 2011
hat tip: Activist Post
DEAD SEA, Jordan (AFP) – US Senator John McCain raised the prospect Sunday of possible armed intervention to protect civilians in Syria where a crackdown on pro-democracy protests has killed more than 3,000 people.
“Now that military operations in Libya are ending, there will be renewed focus on what practical military operations might be considered to protect civilian lives in Syria,” McCain told a World Economic Forum meeting in Jordan.
McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s “regime should not consider that it can get away with mass murder.
Lies Behind the “Humanitarian War” in Libya: There is No Evidence!
Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer
October 19, 2011
The Immense Criminal Enterprise Known as “Responsibility to Protect.”
Foreword by Tony Cartalucci
October 19, 2011 – Meet Dr. Sliman Bouchuiguir, the man behind the verified pack of lies used to justify NATO’s intervention in Libya. This amazing piece of investigative journalism reveals not only how tenuous these fabrications were, but have produced Bouchuiguir himself admitting fragrantly that the allegations he made were contrived, baseless, unconfirmed, and designed specifically to give the necessary requirements for NATO’s intervention.
Furthermore, Bouchuiguir reveals his ties to both the Libyan rebel “National Transitional Council,” particularly NTC Prime Minister Mahmoud Jabril (also spelled “Gibril”) whom he cites as a source for his allegations, and the US government-funded International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). These associations paint a dark picture of the depths of depravity from which this war was prosecuted from. This is the justification for a “humanitarian war” where self-serving foreign interests masquerading as “international institutions” arrange for a disgruntled opposition vying for power whom they are supporting, funding, arming, and whose leaders they are harboring, to manage the perception of a given conflict to provide a predictably slanted pretext for “international intervention.” This immense criminal enterprise, referred to as “responsibility to protect” or “R2P” is a subject now being covered in depth at colorrevolutionsandgeopolitics.blogspot.com, and a subject the public must be educated on as “R2P” is the pretext these same interests are attempting to use against Syria and beyond.
Syrians slam NTC for SNC recognition
PressTV
October 13, 2011
Scores of Syrians have staged a sit-in outside the Libyan embassy in the capital, Damascus, to protest against the recognition of Syria’s opposition National Council by Libyan leaders.
The protest gathering came a day after Mussa al-Koni, a member of Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), said in a news conference in Tripoli that “the NTC has decided to recognize the Syrian National Council as the sole legitimate government in Syria and to close the Syrian embassy in Tripoli.”
Syrians, however, consider the move as a way for NATO to recognize the Syrian National Council (SNC), an umbrella body formally set up on October 2 in Turkey, pulling together most of the groups opposing the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The European Union has also welcomed the newly formed Syrian opposition council, but stopped short of any call to recognize the body.
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