Showing posts with label genocide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genocide. Show all posts
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Via Think Progress, I found an offensive and stupid article by Mort Kondracke in Roll Call(subscription required).
(IN)accepting rule by Shiites and Kurds, allowing them to violently suppress Sunni resistance and making sure that Shiites friendly to the United States emerge victorious.”
Winning will be dirty because it will allow the Shiite-dominated Iraqi military and some Shiite militias to decimate the Sunni insurgency. There likely will be ethnic cleansing, atrocities against civilians and massive refugee flows.
Kondracke says it’s understandable that Sunnis suffer because “so far they’ve refused to accept that they’re a minority. They will have to do so eventually, one way or another.” After all, he says, “Civil wars do end. The losers lose and have to knuckle under.”
Shia is only practiced by between 10 and 15% of the muslim world. The Kurds are hated by pretty much everybody except for us. Kondracke proposes that we allow these minority groups of the muslim world to slaughter thousands of Sunnis.
I honestly think Bush's plan of losing very slowly is much better than Kondracke's new proposal of genocide that would result in a region wide religious war that would have made Lebanon look like a fun place to visit in the 80's. It is that bad.
Kondracke should not be acknowledged in polite society after this monstrous column. Well, he can still do the Beltway Boys on Fox. I often wonder how people pal around with Pat Buchanan, so I guess Mort "Winning Dirty" Kondracke will still be on all the invite lists to the shame of those who enable such profanity. As a fellow Army veteran, I do point out that he disgraces the uniform he once wore. He was in the Counter Intelligence Corps, which does make his insane views more understandable.
I say fuck alot. Mort Kondracke calls for ethnic cleansing. Which is more revolting?
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Can a state commit genocide? Should an entire nation _ not just its presidents, generals, and soldiers _ be held responsible for humanity's worst crime?
In one of the most momentous cases in its 60 years, the U.N.'s highest court will deliver its judgment Monday on Bosnia's demand to make Serbia accountable for the slaughter, terrorizing, rape and displacement of Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s.
But the World Court case, entirely separate from the tribunal's deliberations, is not about individuals. Bosnia says the Serbian state itself must accept blame.
It argues that Serbia's nationalist ideology incited genocidal hatred, its financial and military aid to the Bosnian Serbs gave them the tools for genocide, and Yugoslav army officers actively participated in driving out Muslims.
As am American, I am wondering of course about implications reaching back to our shores. There likely was a very good reason Bush & Cheney rejected the concept of the World Court since they knew they were going to eviscerate the line of what was considered civilized behavior.
If Serbia is found responsible as a nation of genocide, can the United States be one day found guilty of condoning torture, rejecting the rights to a trial for those who have not yet been proven guilty of a crime?
Realists might reject any attempt to make a nation pay for it's misdeeds, but I find it to be a decent sign that while some nations continue to sink further into the moral abyss, others are affirming that a nation is responsible for the crimes done in the name of the citizens who bless such amoral savagery.
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