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Titolo: A Response to Henry Kissinger on Syria and the Global Order by Christof Lehmann.

Una interessante e argomentata risposta ad un recente articolo di H. 
Kissinger.
 
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A Response to Henry Kissinger on Syria and the Global Order by Christof 
Lehmann.
 
By Dr. Christof Lehmann. Dr. Kissinger. This article is an open response 
to your recent article on principles in international law, the Treaty of 
Westphalia, the Arab Spring, and questions about military intervention 
into the internal affairs of sovereign nations based on humanitarian 
principles. (1)
Principle Statements
 
In your article you write that “the Arab Spring is generally discussed 
in terms of the prospects for democracy” and you continue by stating 
“equally significant is the increasing appeal – most recently in Syria – 
of outside intervention to bring about regime change, overturning 
prevalent notions of international order“.(ibid.)
 
You then continue by constructing an argument for, that the principles 
of the Treaty of Westphalia (2) do not fully apply for nation states 
within the Middle East because of their lack of historical existence, 
but let us stay with your initial statements first, that “The Arab 
Spring is generally discussed in terms of the prospects for democracy“.
The Manufacturing of a context for the use of “the responsibility to 
protect”.
 
I believe that it can not have escaped you, that the phenomena that is 
euphemistically called “The Arab Spring” has been selectively emphasized 
by Western Political Players and Western Main Stream Media, in nations 
that had or have an ambivalent or unsympathetic position towards 
regional interests of European Union member states and the United States 
of America. Interestingly the popular demands for political change are 
exclusively finding support by Western nations, in countries where a 
regime change could bring about political and geo-political advantages. 
On the other hand, the legitimate demands for political, social and 
legal reforms in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Qatar, 
Jordan, violent military crack-downs like in Bahrain, and wide-spread 
human rights abuses are neglected. The fact that Saudi Arabia is 
beheading women for “sorcery” is hardly worth mentioning. (3) I will 
return to this point when looking at the part of your article where you 
relate to problems in “allied countries“.
 
I find it also unbelievable that it should have escaped you that the 
Arab Spring has been a long-planned, meticulously executed operation by 
NATO member states with the purpose to bring about regime change in 
Libya, Syria, Iran.
 
In my article “Arabian Summer or NATO´s Fall from August 2011 I informed 
about an officer of the US Special Forces who turned whistle-blower, and 
reported that US Special Forces at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina had been 
actively training and preparing for a war on Libya, Syria, Iran and 
Hezbollah. Further more, that US Special Forces had been training with 
foreign fighters, and that the USA already in August had Special Forces 
operating in Syria.(4)
 
In another article by Martin Iqbal, he is drawing attention to the fact 
that I have provided information via a Palestinian Intelligence Source 
in Turkey, that has provided evidence for the fact that the Arab Spring, 
including a covert war on Syria by an alliance of NATO, Israel, the 
Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas was being “implemented” since at least 
2010, and that the shooting of nine Turks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla 
vessel Marvi Marmara was a precursor for the war on Syria. (5)
 
The political uprisings of the people in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya were 
relatively small events that had been blown out of proportion and 
aggravated by a well planned and executed media campaign. The fact that 
Al Jazeera has “produced” images of violence can not have escaped you, 
and if it has I would not advise making use of you as political adviser. 
One of the best examples of the complicity of co-opted media is the 
false “Tripoli Green Square” with celebrating Libyan “rebels” that was 
filmed in Qatar. (6) Need I say more ?
 
To describe the Arab Spring in terms of popular demands for democracy is 
at best misinformation. The victims in Egypt are those who now see how 
their “revolution” has been and is being co-opted. The victims in Libya 
are the entire people of Libya. Dr. Kissinger, I find it appalling that 
you implicitly mention Libya within the context of demands for democracy.
 
I find it unbelievable that it has escaped you, that the 
US-Administration, when it sent CIA operatives to Benghazi and Derna to 
contact the “rebels” and the “National Council” must have been fully 
aware of the fact that they would be contacting and co-operating with 
the Al-Qaeda associated Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. A West Point Anti 
Terrorism Study clearly documents that the greatest per capita 
contributor to foreign Al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq was Libya, and that the 
vast majority of those Libyan Al-Qaeda fighters came from Benghazi and 
Derna. (7)
 
I find it unbelievable that it either has escaped you, or that you are 
omitting the fact that the commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting 
Group, Abdelhakim Belhadj, whom the USA and NATO endorsed as ally is the 
very person of whom former Spanish P.M. Aznar told that he was the man 
behind the Madrid Train bombings, unbelievable that you would not have 
known about the fact that the USA and NATO were arming and financing 
terrorists, supervising their murderous campaign with NATO special 
operations forces, while selling to the public a narrative of Libyan 
“rebels”. I have published an article on Abdelhakim Belhadj in 2011, I 
could make his register of war crimes and acts of terrorism more 
comprehensive today. (8) Today he is the military governor of Tripoli 
and taking part in elections in a Libya that found it necessary to pass 
a law that makes speaking positively about Ghadafi, his government, 
family or achievements for Libya punishable with life imprisonment. He 
is also, as it often is with agents of NATO Intelligence, a multi 
purpose man, and now commanding at least 18.000 NATO mercenaries ( 
Al-Qaeda ) that are murdering Syrians under the name of Free Syrian Army.
 
Turning to Syria, Dr. Kissinger, has it escaped you, that the majority 
of the known members of the National Council of Syria have ties to 
organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy, and institutes 
and organizations where you are solidly “present”? If you have not 
noticed the fact you could read my article “The National Council of 
Syria and US Unconventional Warfare“. (9)
 
Dr. Kissinger, I find it absolutely appalling, that a man in your 
position, who is actively taking part in manufacturing murderous 
post-modern coup de etats, who is co-operating with known terrorists and 
terrorist organizations, who is advising others to do the same, is 
speaking about democracy and international law. Dr. Kissinger, according 
to international law, You are a war criminal of the most dangerous kind, 
and the words “international law and human rights” coming from your 
mouth are an outrage.
 
Has it escaped you, Dr. Kissinger, that Russian and Syrian intelligence 
services already late in 2011 knew, and informed the public about the 
fact that the Al-Qaeda Omar Brigade, an assassination, death squad and 
bomb-terror specialist brigade had been detached from Saudi Arabia to 
take part in the attempted subversion of the Syrian government ? Has it 
escaped you that the Omar Brigade is under the control of the Saudi 
Arabian Ministry of the Interior ?(10)
 
Has it escaped you, Dr. Kissinger, that the Training Circular TC 18-01, 
which the US Special Forces at Ft. Bragg provide for international 
terrorists whom they are training, sponsoring, supervising and 
unleashing against the people of Syria is a step by step manual for 
bringing about the very “emergency” which the USA, NATO, the 
Dictatorships of the GCC member states, and their proxy Syrians now use 
as a pretext to call for a military intervention against Syria. A 
military intervention under the guise of the “responsibility to protect” 
civilian populations. The very populations they are murdering with 
apparent impunity ? I have published TC 18-01 and invite you to study 
it. Any and all of the actions it is teaching are crimes according to 
international law, the Treaty of Westphalia included. You find a copy 
here: (11)
 
In your article, you are referring to the Treaty of Westphalia. The 
Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years War in Europe and 
which was established to distinguish domestic from foreign affairs in 
international diplomacy. It provided sovereignty to national states and 
provided a legal remedy against foreign interference into the internal 
affairs of sovereign nations as well as interventions. What you are 
forgetting to mention, Dr. Kissinger, is the fact that the principles of 
the Treaty of Westphalia also are enshrined in the Charter of the United 
Nations. But rather than that you are applying a modo-colonialist 
perspective when you state that nation states who were colonies and 
whose borders were drawn by the occupying colonial power do not enjoy 
protection on historical grounds.
 
You are implicitly making the argument, that the principles of the 
Treaty of Westphalia are not fully applicable for many of the nations in 
the Middle East. You argue, that “only three of the region´s Muslim 
states had a historical basis: Turkey, Egypt and Iran. The borders of 
the others reflected a division of the spoils of the defunct Ottoman 
Empire among the victors of World War I, with minimal regard for ethnic 
and sectarian divisions .” You then continue stating, that “The 
diplomacy generated by the Arab Spring replaces Westphalian principles 
of equilibrium with a generalized doctrine of humanitarian intervention”.
 
Dr. Kissinger, either you have made a semantic mistake or your sentence 
includes a logical fallacy. It is not the diplomacy, that is trying to 
substitute  Westphalian principles. As far as I am aware of Russia, 
China and the majority of peace-loving nations vehemently opposes that 
the Westphalian principles are violated with respect to Syria. It is, 
however a fact that NATO has signed a Secretariat Coordination Treaty 
with the UN, and that NATO has made violations of nations sovereignty 
based on humanitarian principles a part of it´s official doctrine – all 
the while it is creating the humanitarian crisis to create a pretext for 
invasion. See my article about the 25th NATO Summit in Chicago and the 
deconstruction of an article by Daalder and Stavridis. (12)
 
It is somewhat telling, Dr. Kissinger, that you are exclusively 
mentioning “Muslim” nations as not having a historical basis. I believe, 
Dr. Kissinger, that you are acutely aware of the fact that the state of 
Israel also has derived it´s apparent legitimization via the Balfour 
Declaration, the UN, and that the “historical argument” for the 
legitimacy of the state of Israel is so problematic that using it as 
precedence for nation building could potentially result in the most 
obscure claims for national independence. I am sure that you are acutely 
aware of it, but you could read my article Palestine Israel History and 
Theirstory. (13)
 
In my article “Palestine Israel History and Theirstory” (ibid.) I have 
argued and demonstrated that the “historical basis” for granting or 
respecting a nations rights and sovereignty is opening a Pandora´s box 
of problems that is impossible to close again. Making use of historical 
principles, Dr. Kissinger, how then about claiming Parts of Poland back 
for Germany, or what about the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation 
claiming major parts of Europe. The results of similar claims to 
sovereignty have resulted in the second world war and tens of millions 
of death.
 
However, what you are implicitly stating is, that The Syrian Arab 
Republic, for example, has no historical basis; that it is the “result 
of the victory of European Powers” and their arbitrary drawing of 
national borders. And naturally, Dr. Kissinger, such a creation that has 
owes it´s existence to the mercy of it´s former colonial masters does 
not deserve the protection of the principles of the Treaty of Westphalia 
or by implication of the principles that are enshrined in the Charter of 
the United Nations, right ?
 
Dr. Kissinger, you have a wonderful ability to convey the most grotesque 
outrages and make them sound plausible – unless one really listens or 
reads and understands what outrages and crimes you are trying to market 
they are almost palatable. One of the sure recipes for  becoming a Nobel 
Peace Laureate? Now let´s have a look at what you consider the problems 
that will follow along with an implementation of the “illegal” principle 
to intervene into sovereign states on the grounds of the “responsibility 
to protect”.
NATO and the principle of  the “responsibility to protect”
 
First of all Dr. Kissinger you are writing “If adopted as a principle of 
foreign policy, this form of intervention raises broader questions for 
U.S. strategy“. That statements has several flaws. First, it is not a 
question “If” the principle will be adopted. It has been adopted already 
and preparations have been underway for years. Second, the question of 
legitimacy should have primate over the questions for U.S. strategy – 
but not of course if one is so used to the thinking along the lines of a 
war criminal as you are ?
 
Dr. Kissinger, listen for one moment to yourself and ask yourself the 
question how people in China, Russia, or in third world nations as you 
would call them are hearing you say “does America feel obliged to 
support every popular uprising against a non-democratic government“. 
You mean like the one in Bahrain ? Saudi Arabia ? But first back to NATO 
and the responsibility to protect.
 
In 2008 the UN and NATO signed a treaty that was kept out of the press 
as long as possible. The coordination of the UN and NAT secretariat 
transformed the UN into a de-facto instrument of US foreign policy and 
NATO into the official UN NATO military force. The NATO statements at 
the 25th NATO Summit in Chicago spoke a clear language.
 
The illegal abuse of UNSC resolution 1973-2011 on Libya, the illegal 
destruction of Libyan infrastructure, the illegal ousting of the Libyan 
government, the illegal special forces, the massacres on tens of 
thousands of black African migrant workers was described as a “teachable 
moment”. (ibid.) The use of cluster bombs in civilian populated areas 
like Brega, the use of Fuel-Air Bombs against civilians in Bani Walid, 
the thousands of murdered and maimed in Sirte were described as an 
air-campaign of unprecedented precision. The Libya campaign was 
described as model intervention for future interventions. Dr. Kissinger, 
the criminal adoption of the principle is not a question of IF, it has 
been adopted and is being ruthlessly implemented in Syria.
 
The question if the USA should feel obliged also to intervene in Saudi 
Arabia Dr. Kissinger; You know as well as anybody that the USA has plans 
to intervene when and where it perceives an advantage by doing so. 
Anything else is a question of fabricating the proper context and 
pretext, which you, I must say, are an expert at.
 
Dr. Kissinger, I spare you from de-constructing the rest of the article 
and in fairness I provided a link to it.
 
To be perfectly honest, it is not worth the time. With your article you 
have proven once again that you are one of the most dangerous war 
criminals, and that you are extremely skillful at spinning the facts and 
making your warmongering sound plausible and humane. Rather than 
de-constructing more of your words, I will rather spend my time and 
energy to see that people like you come behind bars where they belong. I 
encourage decent people to do the same.
 
The world does not need a Global Order based on NATO expansionism and 
imperialism under the guise of humanitarian principles. Regardless how 
skillful you are trying to make the criminal intent palatable.
 
Dr. Christof Lehmann
 
09.06.2012
 
https://nsnbc.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/a-response-to-henry-kissinger-on-syria-and-the-global-order-by-christof-lehmann/
 
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