You can kill an elephant with a needle if you find the deadliest place to stick it. … International tribunals for Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq should be formed. I feel sorry for Obama, but these investigations are necessary to protect the world from the geopolitical adventurism of exceptionalist Western elites who have gone unpunished, and to prevent them from interfering with Russia as it builds a great new country, developing itself and helping friends and neighbors do so as well. … The world needs a good empire, and Russia has every chance and basis for quickly becoming one.” Alexander Zinoviev, an outstanding Russian sociologist, once opined on how to “kill an elephant with a needle.” It would be symbolic if Russian diplomacy, in the form of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russia’s ambassador to the U.N. Vitaly Churkin marked the anniversary by putting forward a resolution establishing a United Nations Criminal Tribunal for Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia. Peace and international law demand an investigation into this “humanitarian” crime and prosecute those responsible for it. Also, October 7 is the 13th anniversary of the U.S. and NATO invasion of Afghanistan, so an International Tribunal for Afghanistan can also be initiated. The ongoing American operation “Enduring Freedom” deserves a detailed analysis, since one of its most striking consequences has been the planet-wide phenomenon of Afghan drug production. Heroin production in Afghanistan has risen 44 fold, while over the last decade, the number of global deaths amounted to almost a million people. Why is this not an international crime against humanity? At the tribunal for Afghanistan, a question should be raised: Who is responsible for giving NATO command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, which occurred in August 2003? That way, it becomes possible to end the substitution of NATO for the United Nations, which poses a threat to the security of all countries and peoples. The main goal -rather than to share a smoke with the Americans on their mega bases, the purpose of which is demonstrably not to create stability – would be to force the U.S. and NATO to finance alternative development programs in Afghanistan to drastically reduce drug production. Next. In March 2015, the question of an International Tribunal for Iraq should be raised. Remember Colin Powell’s test tube [of anthrax] and other “facts?” It is time to make those who initiated the Iraq War answer for the millions of Iraqi dead.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:36:32 +0000
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