Where’s R2P When Iran’s People Need It?
I spent much of yesterday travelling, so now I’m back in Jakarta, missing those with whom I spent my holiday, but an object of renewed adoration by my cat, who has been fed, but not, she says, nearly enough!
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Please note her ‘diverse’ colouring!
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So a morning to get to grips with everyday realities again, but first a brief nod to the news from Iran.
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Back in 2011, media hacks were churning out reams of stuff about the new U.N. doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was supposed to work. The doctrine’s supporters had hoped that it would codify the obligations of outside powers to intervene…
….through nonmilitary means whenever possible – but with lethal force if necessary when a tyrannical regime threatens to slaughter its own people. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/opinion/r2p-rip.html
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Flash forward to Iran this past week, with a regime SO tyrannical that its very basis is the barbaric shariah, surely an ‘egregious mass violation of human rights,’ which treats half its population, as a matter of ‘principle,’ all the country’s women, as second-class citizens, subjected to absurd discrimination, even to the extent of what they may wear!
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The “Islamic Republic’s” goon-squads roam the streets harassing women who dare go out shopping with their sinful hair on display.
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One of the most disgusting photos I saw the other day was that backward old brute Khameinei, a ‘Supreme Leader’ who has never even ASKED for the votes of those he misrules…
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One live tyrant prattles before a dead tyrant’s portrait..BTW, what’s an easy anagram for ‘live’ in this situation? Hint- begins with ‘e’ and ends with ‘l’ …
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…mouthing off in front of a pack of head-shrouded collaborateuses, their pathetic faces peering submissively at the despot, from within the black sacks in which they were wrapped.
I personally don’t have any time for this R2P junk, firstly because it’s a power-grab for a fundamentally flawed supranational outfit…
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…which would be better disbanded, not least because of the ranting menaces who hold high office therein…
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…and also because it has proven fairly disastrous when it was invoked, e.g. in Libya.
But most importantly, on principle!
Each nation should have the right to decide its own destiny.
Self-determination rules, OK!
Having said that, it is strange that no calls for R2P have been heard from UN sticky-beaks, like that uppity Arab who has the gall to lecture civilised countries.
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Even Trump, who has spoken up on the essential evil of the Tehran sectarian tyranny, has failed to call for regime change.
How come?
Iran’s not only an affront to any decent person’s sense of right and wrong, but a threat to all of us with its support for terrorism.
It’s not as if there’s no practical alternative to the rule of Dark Age ignoramuses!
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Overthrow Evil Ayatollahs, Restore Iran’s Monarchy!
Mort is discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Mort 22:27 on January 3, 2018 Permalink |
I can remember Barry Goldwater’s proposals for supplying weapons etc. to resistance movements in the Soviet bloc and I can see no reason why we should not do the same for the forces fighting Islamist ideological dictators in Iran and Turkey.
The exiled Shah is the kind of leader we could count on, a much better bet than the Mujahidin if popular support is important, which it is. It’s difficult to gauge how much monarchist feeling there is in Iran, but the hatred the ayatollahs express against him have had me speculating that they must fear him. .
There are the Kurds too. America was unwise to let them down, because they would have been an ideal force to harness against both. Time alone will tell if we can regain their trust.
It would be, as you recognize, crazy to entrust the job to the UN. As you say, they would probably make a mess of it and in any case, we should never acknowledge any supranational authority.
Liberating those two countries is a morally defensible goal but if we made morality the guiding principle, then we would need to foment revolution in Communist China, and Saudi Arabia and dozens of countries besides, worthy causes, of course, but unrealistic.
Promoting our own safety should be the basis of foreign policy. If moral rectitude coincides, all well and good, but secondary.
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