Independent- So there was Samantha Power doing her �shame� bit in the UN. �Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution of a child that gets under your skin, that just creeps you out a little bit?�, America�s ambassador to the UN asked the Russians and Syrians and Iranians. She spoke of Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica �and, now, Aleppo�.

Odd, that. For when Samantha talked about �barbarism against civilians� in Aleppo, I remembered climbing over the dead Palestinian civilians massacred at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut in 1982, slaughtered by Israel�s Lebanese militia friends while the Israeli army � Washington�s most powerful ally in the Middle East � watched. But Samantha didn�t mention them. Not enough dead Palestinians, perhaps? Only 1,700 killed, including women and children. Halabja was up to 5,000 dead. But Sabra and Chatila certainly �creeped me out� at the time.

And then I recalled the monstrous American invasion of Iraq. Perhaps half a million dead. It�s one of the statistics for Rwanda�s dead. Certainly far more than Srebrenica�s 9,000 dead. And I can tell you that Iraq�s half million dead �creeped me out� rather a lot, not to mention the torture and murders in the CIA�s interrogation centres in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq. It also �creeped me out� to learn that the US president used to send innocent prisoners off to be interrogated in... Assad�s Syria! Yes, they were sent by Washington to be questioned in what Samantha now calls Syria�s �Gulags�.

 

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