Our wonderful politicians (a ramble)
What bemuses me about the whole conflict is the relative silence by our elected European leaders, apart from Tony Blair, of course , on the whole conflict. Mutterings of making truces, giving humanitarian aid and solving the conflict are heard, but that's it. So the US vetoed a resolution condemning Isreal for its actions, thats the 35th time the veto has been used to bin resolutions critical of Israel, and what do the other European leaders do? Do they stand up and condemn the veto? Do they loudly insist that the US must move for a truce and peace process? No, they just sit back and shut up. Or are they just scared of being labelled "Anti-semitic"?
And how can the US on one side accuse the UN of being ineffective, on the other hand do everything to undermine and negetate it? Why does no politician stand up and say something about that?
In the meantime the US is busy selling arms to Israel and other countries in the Middle East, threatening Syria and Iran, and letting India build nuclear weapons. But to do anything to stop civilians being killed in the Lebanon, Israel and Palestina, well I guess that would be bad for their arms sales. Do our politicians complain about those arms sales, given the current situation? Of course not, as the UK, France et al are doing the same, just more quietly. Plus if they said something they might lose some perks, just check how many politicians have links to the arms industry.
In the mean time the propaganda machine is running overtime persuading people that this is a necessary struggle, not just because we want to provoke armageddon. That the machine is working smoothly in the US is evident, as "Seventy-two percent (72%) believe that the Iraqis are better off now than they were under Saddam Hussein (slightly down from February 2005 when 76 percent said this was true). " Well, they did not have an occupation, civil war and the theft of their natural resources before the war, so does having all of those make it better? And the main starting point of this new war is lost in oblivion, seldom reported. Most people only know that it was because two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped. What came before that, where they were kidnapped is all lost as history is rewritten to suit the various parties. And again, our politicians (and media) just go along without a question.
Let's face it we are being governed by a bunch of spineless cowards, and as the oppostion in most countries is equally silent, when we get a chance to vote its a matter of chosing the lesser evil, but never a real change.
And how can the US on one side accuse the UN of being ineffective, on the other hand do everything to undermine and negetate it? Why does no politician stand up and say something about that?
In the meantime the US is busy selling arms to Israel and other countries in the Middle East, threatening Syria and Iran, and letting India build nuclear weapons. But to do anything to stop civilians being killed in the Lebanon, Israel and Palestina, well I guess that would be bad for their arms sales. Do our politicians complain about those arms sales, given the current situation? Of course not, as the UK, France et al are doing the same, just more quietly. Plus if they said something they might lose some perks, just check how many politicians have links to the arms industry.
In the mean time the propaganda machine is running overtime persuading people that this is a necessary struggle, not just because we want to provoke armageddon. That the machine is working smoothly in the US is evident, as "Seventy-two percent (72%) believe that the Iraqis are better off now than they were under Saddam Hussein (slightly down from February 2005 when 76 percent said this was true). " Well, they did not have an occupation, civil war and the theft of their natural resources before the war, so does having all of those make it better? And the main starting point of this new war is lost in oblivion, seldom reported. Most people only know that it was because two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped. What came before that, where they were kidnapped is all lost as history is rewritten to suit the various parties. And again, our politicians (and media) just go along without a question.
Let's face it we are being governed by a bunch of spineless cowards, and as the oppostion in most countries is equally silent, when we get a chance to vote its a matter of chosing the lesser evil, but never a real change.
Posted at 7/30/2006 09:10:00 AM UTC
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