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In reply to the discussion: A US bombing attack to "punish" Syria is illegal. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)of its own monstrous war criminals, responsible for more than a MILLION dead human beings, men, women and children has zero right to insert themselves into what ought to be done about potential war crimes anywhere else.
If we are suddenly so compassionate about the wrongful deaths of other human beings, we need to get started here and provide some justice for the families and loved ones of all those people we slaughtered and tortured, by showing the world we MEAN IT when we dare to say 'we cannot tolerate these crimes'. WE not only tolerate them, we exonerate.
Let someone with no blood on their own hands and genuine concern for the people there, do this job. We do not have the moral authority or the credibility to do it.
British Parliamentarians were vocal in pointing out this hypocrisy during the debate this week. The world is sickened by our wars and even more so by the gall we have to ignore our own war criminals, to exonerate them, then to have to nerve to exalt ourselves as the 'compassionate, anti-war crimes' policemen of the world. It truly is sickening.