US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power today singled out a list of 12 Syrian military leaders, including ten generals and two colonels, who she said were responsible for leading attacks on civilians during the Syrian Civil War, and will “one day face justice.”
Power insisted the US are “documented their abuses” and that the military figures will one day be held accountable. Russian Deputy Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov criticized Power for not naming any militants in the list of people the US is out to get.
It’s not clear these comments are going to amount to anything at any rate, as President-elect Donald Trump is keen to shift focus in Syria to fighting against the rebels, and not trying to impose regime change. This presumably would shift US focus away from war crimes charges for Syrian generals.
Even then, Syria isn’t a member of the International Criminal Court, which seems to limit the possibility of any international legal moves against their military. The US of course is familiar with this, as the US State Department has similarly argued US military personnel are immune to ICC prosecution as a non-member nation.
I never dreamed that the US could employ a worse Ambassador to the UN than John Bolton, until Samantha Power came along and proved me wrong. It will be a relief to see this sorry propagandist out of the UN and in some location where she can do no more harm to what is left of our nation’s diminished international reputation.
This makes lots of sense , , , NOT!!! The USA sends cutthroat terrorists into Syria to kill and destroy and the Syrian generals that come to the nation’s rescue are the war criminals? Jesus Christ Superstar what kind of reasoning is that? The Ambassador should take a seat right next to the discredited mainstream media and be put out to pasture with the rest of the enemies of mankind! This is like someone starting a fire somewhere and then blaming the fire department for putting out the fire.
Nicely put. What I find interesting is that the Orwellian hogwash is being spouted despite the clear knowledge by everyone that it’s a total pile of bs. In 1984 everyone was cowed into silence, or into “thought control” parroting of the Newspeak. Here the entire world sees the lies for what they are, but no one is cowed. Still, the liars go right on lying to everyone’s face.
This is a little different. This is them saying, “We can say or do anything we want. There’s nothing you can do about it. We own you. We own everything. We ***OWN*** you,…. bitch.”
Total power. Total arrogance. Total contempt. That’s the message conveyed by a blatant, unashamed, undisguised lie told straight to your face.
But they’re wrong. There is something we can do. And we did it on Nov 8th. The revolution has begun,…and it will continue. The election cycle of 2018 should be very interesting.
Obama didn’t have much control over Powers before he was lame duck. He’s got none now. She’ll just throw her elbows around until she goes off to work for the Clinton foundation and no one pays any more attention to her.
Bye bye Samantha Power.
Sammy is a damned hypocrite. Bush, Cheney, Oboomer, Clinton,
Bibi Nuttyahoo, and stooges in the Saudi regime are the biggest
war criminals on the planet. She can take her so-called ‘list’ and
put it where the Sun don’t shine.
God has a special place for these “people”!
“To plan and carry into effect a war of aggression.
a joint conspiracy or common plan for the same”
DEFIINITION OF A WAR CRIME.
Then there’s the outrages carried out by Obama’s very nasty army of Jihadists on the Syrian population.
But she is also the worst ambassador there could possibly be.
Samathan Powers = done, go away, defeated, history, Hasta La Vista Baby
LF
I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning!
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power should get in line for she and her regime leaders are equally guilty of massive war crimes.
Samantha Power would be at the top of the list of any real War Crimes Tribunal.
If Tony Blair ,Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright , for Yugoslavia and Iraq .George Bush and his crowd for Iraq or Obama for the Arab spring and Libya . If all these guy escaped prosecution for their many war crimes . There does not seem to be much danger any western leaders will ever be prosecuted for war crimes . NATO seems to be able the attack any country even bomb them and than charge their leaders that were only defending their own people on their own land in their own country with serious war crimes .
Somebody at the UN ought to be naming US commanders for the same things.
Trump is likely to replace Samantha Power anyway. She is nothing but a warmonger and troublemaker.