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Politician's Logic: Slow The Flow Of Refugees Fleeing War By Dropping More Bombs
Submitted by Sarah Lezare via TheAntiMedia.org,
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday became the latest elected leader to use the plight of refugees in building a rhetorical case for military escalation towards Syria, despite numerous calls for wealthy nations to extend refuge — not bombs — as the humanitarian crisis worsens.
Speaking in the Australian capital of Canberra on Wednesday, Abbott coupled an announcement that the country will admit an additional 12,000 people fleeing conflict in the Middle East with the declaration that the nation will extend its military actions beyond Iraq by joining in the bombing campaign in eastern Syria this week. The move comes despite questions over the Abbott administration’s legal footing for the air strikes.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron is also calling for a “hard military force” to remove President Bashar al Assad in Syria. “Assad has to go, [ISIS] has to go and some of that will require not just spending money, not just aid, not just diplomacy, but it will on occasion require hard military force,” he declared Wednesday.
Cameron’s comment comes despite the fact that he lost a parliamentary vote in August 2013 for approval to launch air strikes at the Assad regime. Moreover, the statement follows rising concerns over the country’s recent drone assassination of its own citizens, secret participation of its pilots in air strikes within Syria, and bombing of targets within Iraq.
“David Cameron is determined to go to war, and he refuses to let democratic formalities stand in his way,” the UK-based Stop the War Coalition declared earlier this week. “His government is even exploiting the refugee crisis, which is the product of US and UK military intervention, in order to force Britain into yet another savage bombing campaign. UK bombing of Syria would only increase the refugee crisis.”
In France on Monday, President François Hollande announced that the country will take in 24,000 refugees—and begin conducting surveillance flights over ISIS positions in Syria, beginning this week. France, which has been participating in the U.S.-led bombing campaign of targets in Iraq since September 2014, is currently weighing whether to directly participate in air strikes on Syria, the president stated.
Speaking to the uptick in military fervor among some politicians, Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of North Atlantic Treaty Organization, recently declared in a Facebook question-and-answer exchange that leaders are considering intensified military efforts “to help deal with the root causes.”
Many, however, have argued that Western invasion, occupation, and military escalation are key root causes of the war and conflict forcing people to flee their homes.
In an article recently published by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, journalist Adam Johnson warned against false military solutions, including those led by the United States. “The U.S. funded, armed and fueled the very crisis its partisan media are now calling for it to swoop and in save,” wrote Johnson. “The moral ADD required by those pushing further US involvement in the Syrian civil war in the face of this fact is severe.”
Robert Naiman, policy director for Just Foreign Policy, agrees. “Military escalation has not and will not solve the problems of Syria,” Naiman told Common Dreams. “Military escalation has and would make things worse.”
Moreover, the escalation comes amid lagging humanitarian response, as The Intercept‘s Murtaza Hussain pointed out on Twitter:
We will gladly bomb your country for humanitarian purposes but you are unwelcome to come fleeing over here with your family.
— Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) September 9, 2015
This week’s chorus is not limited to Australia and Europe, however. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government has been participating in air strikes within both Syria and Iraq, said earlier this week that the refugee crisis builds the case for further military action. His declaration was coupled with a call for more stringent screening of refugees. “We cannot open the floodgates and airlift tens of thousands of refugees out of a terrorist war zone without proper process. That is too great a risk for Canada.”
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"We cannot open the floodgates and airlift tens of thousands of refugees out of a terrorist war zone without proper process"
A terrorist war zone that YOU HELPED CREATE!! If we had gone into Afghanifuckistan and killed Bin Laden and brought the troops home, I wonder what things would be like today. Instead, we are running around with our troops dropping bombs all over, all in the name of TERRORISM. How many terrorists are you creating when you kill innocent women and children? Do you think the family man that loses his family isn't suddenly going to have an ax to grind??
If we hadn't fucked around in virtually every country in MENA for the last 70 years, installing governments we thought might be favorable to us, then killing or trying to kill the very people that bring stability to their countries, all without having a plan on what to install afterwords, I wonder what things would look like today?
For one thing, we wouldn't have needed to go into Afghanifuckistan because the entire MENA wouldn't be blaming us for fucking things up in the first place! We should not be involved in nation building; we shouldn't be trying to bring democracy to every fucking place on the planet. Why? Because we don't fucking know what we're doing!
The Statist Party, comprised of Democrat and Republican wings did this and you had no say in the matter.
It's never been about nation building, just resource control and bankers wars.
That's not a reason to invite the victims of the deep state into your home.
You first....
This Abbot character doesn't seem to be the brightest bulb in that Aussie house down under...
Its just the usual liberal party we've got to be deputy dog for the USA regardless of whatever misadventure they lead us into policy
“We need to bomb both sides to stop the war and the refugees”.
One perverted script, many compliant mouthpieces ...
I wish someone would shove a kangaroo up his arse.
... doesn't say much for those "Rhodes Scholarships" does it ? - seems they're a bit like a Nobel peace prize.
He knows what he's doing. It is the people here who are largely apathetic and stupid. We have a long running and raging civil debate over a handful of "boat people" and in one fell swoop he gets public support for 12,000 Syrian refugees to boost "growth" while simultaneously getting tough on "terror".
More like "we will drop freedom bomb's on you, but you are not welcome here to escape them"
If David Cameron was just as concerned about the National Health Service as he was about his Zionist banker masters plans there would be no bad teeth in England
Look up Cameron's wiki. He is half tribe and his family has worked for the Red Shield (financing wars - aka mass murder) for the past 200+ years. True.
A family known for raising capital to muder innocent people.
Murica: "Give us your shit, or we'll blow the shit out of you!"
(we are all going to Hell)
You sound like the Thug who ranafter me for my new Air Jordans last week.
So, kill them and they won't come. I guess that makes sense if your home is a mental institution.....
Just another sad episode in the war against humanity by the nephalim hybrids and their agents. This evil will continue until earth humans rise, unite, and destroy the nephalim and their agents.
I'm just waiting for china to join the party.....otherwise, I'm vomiting
they must go to israel
We must be doing it wrong. Aim the bombs at the refujihadists. There, that's better.
Gawd this administration did such a stellar job on the Middle east...starting with Miss "we came we saw he died" and Mr. let Putin handle the Syrian chemical weapons.....Yemen...and now the IRAN deal...
Trump just might have a point...
Since they can't find ISIS to bomb them but they can find the "refugees", just bomb the refugees. That will get them thinking differently about caravaning their way to the west.
Within a few years Europe will be muslim and the process is now unstoppable:
https://video-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xpf1/v/t42.1790-2/11893234_8569...
Bombing is only accelerating the process
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Is there one Western leader leader left on the planet that's not a cocksucking NWO tool?
Look to be fair there might be one. I mean you can't rule it out right? That there might be one leader out there somewhere not an actual NWO cocksucking tool. No way you could make that sort of blanket statement without lining them all up first and testing them on NWO cock, to see if they suck or not. Though I'm not sure how to evaluate any that refuse to show up, I think you'd have to assume they are closet NWO cocksuckers and suffer the loss on any statistical rigor.
But yeah then in the case where they show up and they all suck on it you could say for sure, not one Western leader left. Scientifically that is.
I'm just say'n.
lol.