The Losers War: Lebanon - International Peace/War

Above any other consideration, war highlights FAILURE; war indicts all participants and labels them criminals. Participants in warfare openly display their ineptitudes, brutish savagery and inability to resolve issues in a civilised manner. The most primitive, barbaric and bestial form of human exchange/communication is warfare.

The ambitions the USA harboured regarding domination of the Middle East have been quashed by Israel’s failure. Any future aggression in the region by the USA would now be totally transparent; the fiasco in Lebanon has at least made plain the intentions of the USA and its proxy, Israel. The failure of America and Israel has effectively invited other world powers to participate in the region and counter the insane methodologies that have resulted in needless violence and destruction; few, if any, would oppose the balancing influence of Russia and China in world affairs. Populations of the world are tired and appalled by the immoral behaviour of Israel and the USA; it is time for other nations to balance the situation. China and Russia should not delay their peaceful intervention in the region; opportunities for peace should never ‘go begging!’

The entire world watched while Washington and Tel Aviv exhibited a staggering lack of competence, expertise, knowledge, intelligence and tactics. Conventional warfare strategies proved to be totally inappropriate and inadequate; the diplomatic ‘solutions’ offered by Condoleezza Rice and John Bolton would surely stand as the most inept in the history of diplomacy and international affairs – an abysmal and disgraceful ‘effort’. The civilian death toll bears testimony to the criminal inactions of the USA and the criminal actions of its proxy, Israel. Let the belligerent, bellicose Bush and Olmert administrations answer to the people for the deaths of innocent children. If the court at the Hague claims any credibility whatsoever, it must act against those responsible for the murder of innocents or forever be labelled as a puppet court!

The people of the world have witnessed the failure of violent, barbaric methods of conflict resolution and the lack of vision and inspiration from the respective leaders involved in the conflict. The travesty of the intervention in Lebanon should forever remain in the public consciousness and should serve as an example of the bankruptcy of the ‘might is right’ ideology of brutes and murderers. This is the war that all active and inactive participants lost, the USA, Israel and Hezbollah have only the blood of children and the insanity of total destruction to display.

Another opportunity for Peace presents itself to the people of the world. At the very least we are all able to withdraw our support from raving lunatics and the murdering criminals posing as our leaders! It is time to act and rally behind those who would fight the warmongers and criminals in government.

Support Lt. Ehren Watada, the first U.S. commissioned officer to refuse deployment to the illegal war in Iraq. Based on international law, the Nuremberg Trials and the Geneva Convention, his case is able to expose and indict the present criminal government of the USA. Rally behind those who would risk everything for peace and justice and the real American way as encoded in the Constitution and Bill of Rights – documents that Bush and his cohorts refer to as “pieces of paper!”

See:
http://cleaves.zapto.org/clv/newswire.php?story_id=284

Do not hesitate to jail (all) those found guilty of criminal human rights abuses. Everyone is subject to the rule of Law regardless of the position they occupy.

I leave you with the only sane proposition for the future, Peace.

Endnote:
Peace is never inaction. Peace is ongoing process, a non-violent activity against all forms of violence; this process should never be taken for granted.

Peace is earned, never bestowed!

A letter to President Bush from former Diplomats and retired Generals:

As former military leaders and foreign policy officials, we call on the Bush administration to engage immediately in direct talks with the government of Iran without preconditions to help resolve the current crisis in the Middle East and settle differences over the Iranian nuclear program.

We strongly caution against any consideration of the use of military force against Iran. The current crises must be resolved through diplomacy, not military action. An attack on Iran would have disastrous consequences for security in the region and U.S. forces in Iraq, and it would inflame hatred and violence in the Middle East and among Muslims elsewhere.

A strategy of diplomatic engagement with Iran will serve the interests of the U.S. and its allies, and would enhance regional and international security.

Signed: -
Ambassador Harry Barnes, Former Ambassador to Chile, India, and Romania

Lieutenant General Julius Becton, U.S. Army (Ret.); Former commander, VII
Corps, and Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Parker Borg, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy; Former Ambassador to Iceland and Mali; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotic Matters; Deputy Director of the Office for Combating Terrorism, U. S. State Department

Ambassador Peter Burleigh, Former U.S. Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations; Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives; Ambassador and Coordinator of the Office of Counter-Terrorism; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia

Ambassador Ralph Earle II, Former chief negotiator of the SALT II Treaty and Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Brigadier General Evelyn P. Foote, U.S. Army (Ret.). Former Deputy Inspector General, U.S. Army

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, African Affairs, Charge/Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy (Bangkok; Beijing); and Director, Chinese Affairs, Department of State

Morton Halperin, Senior Fellow of the Center for American Progress; Director of U.S. Advocacy for the Open Society Institute; Former director of Policy Planning, Department of State

Lieutenant General Robert G. Gard, Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.); Former military assistant to the Secretary of Defense; president, National Defense University. Currently Senior Military Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

General Joseph P. Hoar, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.); Former Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command

Brigadier General John Johns, U.S. Army (Ret.); Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

Professor Frank N. von Hippel, Former Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Dr. Lawrence Korb, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Installations and Logistics

Major General Frederick H. Lawson, U.S. Army Reserve (Ret.); Former Reserve Division Commander

Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army (Ret.); former Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence

Lieutenant General Charles P. Otstott, U.S. Army (Ret.); former Deputy Chairman, NATO Military Committee

Ambassador Edward L. Peck, Former Chief of Mission in Iraq and Mauritania; Deputy Director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism; Deputy Coordinator for Covert Intelligence Programs and Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Department of State; Liaison Officer to the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Brig. Gen. Maurice D. Roush, U.S. Army (Ret.)

Dr. Sarah Sewall, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance; Foreign Policy Adviser to Senator George J. Mitchell

Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, U.S. Navy (Ret.). Former Director of the Center for Defense Information and currently Chairman, Military Advisory Committee, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities

LTG James M. Thompson, U.S. Army (Ret.), Former Chief of Military Mission to Turkey (JUSMMAT); Chief of Staff, Allied Forces, Southern Europe

Vice Admiral Ralph Weymouth, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Commanding Officer of Flagship on Commander Middle East Force; Northern NATO Desk Officer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Internal Security Affairs; and Commander, Iceland Defense Force

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