China and Russia Give Green Light To Assad Regime Savagery

China and Russia both vetoed a milquetoast UN Security Council Resolution put forth by the Arab League with backing from the U.S. and European powers that would have rebuked Assad and told him yet again to stop his slaughtering. It didn’t do much more than that. No mandatory sanctions, no arms embargo (Russia is right now resupplying the armory of the Syrian murder regime), no much of anything beyond more calling on Assad to do the right thing.

The repressive duo vetoed it anyway.

The vote was 13-2.

But first Russia and China jerked everybody around by negotiating concessions in the resolution, forcing it to be watered down, and then pulling the rug out from under the rest of the Council by killing it anyway. Part of a strategy, also employed by the Assad gangsters, to stall for time while they try to drown the people's rebellion in blood. (Like father, like son. There was a lot of idiotic prattle that Assad junior would be some kind of  "reformer," different from his father. Hopefully we won't hear more of that. We are hearing slimy blather from Assad and his minions from time to time about "reform" and "dialogue:" a really sick joke given the actual reality.)

Meanwhile, Homs is bleeding. Assad's barbarians are shelling residential neighborhoods, shelled the makeshift hospital, uses snipers to assassinate people at random. [BBC]. The bombardment intensified in wake of dual veto of Security Council condemnation. Hundreds have been killed already in just a few days, many have lost limbs.

The nationwide death toll in ten months of violent repression has surpassed 6,000. Innumerable more have been wounded, many maimed for life.

The assault began on earnest on the very day of the scheduled UN vote, before the vote; thus do the cynical Assadite barbarians underline their contempt for world opinion.

To top it off, the Assad regime is showing its usual cynical contempt for everybody’s intelligence by lying through its teeth and denying it’s killing anybody in Homs. It’s “terrorists” killing people in Homs. (Somehow “terrorists” have brought tanks and artillery into Syria, which has a 200,000 man army, and the regime is powerless to stop them.) But just in case you don’t believe that, they also say everything is peaceful in Homs. So the Sado-murder regime provides freedom of choice! Pick the lie you like!

Oh, and by the way, this is all about “Syria” (the sado-murder regime) being victimized by “foreign plots.” So say they and their loathsome fellow-travelers (various pseudo-academics of a faux-leftist persuasion).

Western “leftist” fellow-travelers back Assad, draw idiotic parallels to Libya, which they mindlessly see as an example of “Western Imperialist aggression.” The fact is, if NATO (and a few Arab states) hadn't used air power to help the Libyan people throw off the suffocating yoke of the tyrant Qaddafi, “rivers of blood” would have flowed as per the Qaddafi family's vow. (The intervention was pursuant to a UN mandate which was instigated by the Arab League. But ideologues are always selective when it comes to acknowledging facts.) I guess it’s easier to be an ideologue than to comprehend reality in all its complexity. Applying knee-jerk, simple-minded templates on all situations is easier than having to think, for the mentally slovenly. Although I don’t see what’s so hard to figure out. To say, West always Bad, foes of West always Good, reveals mindlessness, and a sickening moral abandonment of human beings who are being savagely oppressed.

But for some reason people with an ideological doctrine they hew to always believe it to be more moral than actual human morality. (See: all religious fundamentalists; Ronald Reagan; etc.)

Certain leftists have an ironclad, if unacknowledged, rule they follow in terms of their attitude towards dictatorships: if the oppressors are supported by or have friendly relations with Western powers, the dictator is BAD. If it's on the outs with the West, it's GOOD. Rightists have an exact mirror image of that rule. [See Wall Street Journal, National Review, et al for endless examples.]

This phenomenon makes a fine illustration of the adage: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.