RE ARE YOU TRULY WITHOUT SHAME? THE BEST SOLUTION WOULD BE TO HAVE NEVER RELINQUISHED COLONIAL RULE IN THE FIRST PLACE

In the Syrian environment, moving as it is toward Hobbes' state of nature, shame is one of the lesser emotions, on all sides.

There is also little time, or room, over there, at least, for feelings of regret. Some of us have those feelings, here.

The West, and especially the US, abandoned the colonial order.

At least the colonial order was order, and the West was in control of it.

Palestine was always a kaleidoscopic football motley of vassal states, throughout its entire long, pathetic, history.

Even the so called Kingdom of David has turned out, itself, to be a biblical author's historical chimera.

What is going on there, all over the region, really, is not particularly new.

 

I will quote Sir Michael Howard, again, so that Ambassador Power can see where I believe the fault really lies. Call it my version of ' Speaking Truth To Power ' 

 

Perhaps she also can one day share my feelings of regret, or perhaps disappointment is a better word:

 

"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the  European  Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt.  And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....." Michael Howard

It is rather pathetic, really, for the West, a hundred years on, to now be discussing this, across a table, at a ' UN ', with a Russian UN Ambassador at all.