the world cant just sit back now

[lilused]

Agree, ''I say its up to the Arabs to stop the violence.'' Everyone should just stay out of the Middle East.

[westlondoncarparts]

It is not correct to say that Russia vetoes Syrian related proposals at the UN Security Council because of its contracts with Syria to supply arms.

If you listen to the news bulletins coming out of Russia, there is much recollection there at the present time about three substantive breaches of international law in recent times by what could be loosely called the Western Allies.

In the former Republic of Yugoslavia around the turn of the Millenium, the USA ignored the United Nations embargo on arms supplies and supplied arms to anti-Serb Croatian and Bosnian paramilitaries. Around 38,000 air attacks were undertaken by NATO in the former Yugoslavia without any authorisation from the United Nations.

The coalition that invaded Iraq, primarily the USA and the UK, did so without any UN mandate. No weapons of mass destruction were found. Had the coalition waited a few months for the UN weapons inspectors to complete their work, the inspectors would have reported that there were not weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. After the military conquest had been achieved, it became clear that neither the USA nor the UK had given much thought to what should happen after the invasion. The coalition had turned the country into a train wreck.

As I posted previously, what was intended to be a humanitarian act on the part of the UN to prevent genocide in Benghazi was hijacked by the Western powers to achieve regime change in Libya. As with Iraq, nobody had given much thought about what should happen after regime change. The current mess that has resulted in Libya is rarely mentioned in the western media.

The Russians view a number of the Western powers as bullies who have no respect for international law and who will engage in unlawful military action whenever they choose to. Consequently, the Russians have a complete lack of trust in some of the Western powers including those who are permanent members of the UN Security Council. The Russians see the whole region beyond the boundaries of Syria as potentially extremely volatile and are anxious that the whole region could become unstable. Hence the Russian reluctance to support any UN Security Council authorised military action. The Russians are worried that the Americans and British will go well beyond any UN mandate and will go for regime change again and interference in the Middle East again to suit their own strategic interests. .

The behaviours of all the permanent members of the UN Security Council need to be reviewed and modified if there is ever to be any chance of the Security Council operating effectively.

[westlondoncarparts]

Not everybody is thinking humanitarian.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...ops-Syria.html