“France has taken the first steps toward proposing a Security Council resolution that would refer Syria to the International Criminal Court for the prosecution of war crimes, diplomats said Friday, an action long sought by rights advocates. Although Russia might well veto such a resolution, the diplomats said, it could still embarrass the Kremlin, the Syrian government’s most important foreign supporter, at a time when the Russians already face isolation over the crisis in Ukraine. The diplomats also cautioned that such a resolution risked alienating the Russians, whose cooperation in pressuring the Syrian government is considered vital. The diplomats spoke on the condition of anonymity because a draft of the resolution is still under negotiation……………”
It doesn’t matter. It will not pass, and everybody knows it. But the French socialists are moving in the direction they have promised in their Saudi deal. They will have made their point to their Al Saud partners and bankrollers. That was the recent deal between the French ‘socialists’ and the repressive absolute princes: money and trade in exchange for a more robust French stance on Syria and Lebanon and the Persian Gulf. Politically robust, not militarily robust.
For the latter, for military robustness, they need to talk Obama into starting another war, since the Europeans are not willing to spend their own blood and treasure in Middle East wars. They are smarter than the US Congress (both houses, both parties): the Europeans know they need the money to build and maintain their infrastructure. So, let the Americans do it all: they have been doing it since 1942.
American politicians have let the infrastructure at home age and go unrepaired while loading up on weapons and deployment across the globe. Bad roads, old modes of transportation, and risky bridges and schools and other buildings become more costly with time, and harder to repair. They also pause a greater future danger to the American home front than any bunch of Wahhabi Jihadists.
Cheers
mhg
