A Comedy of Terrors: When in Doubt, Bomb Syria
Workers dousing a burning vehicle at a base controlled by rebel fighters with the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham in Idlib, Syria. Activists said the base was hit by an airstrike. (photo: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)
Poor ISIS. Try as they might, the men in black still can’t out-terrorize their enemies or, more pointedly, even their patrons. For the past three years, decapitations have served as the money shots for ISIS’s theater of cruelty. Then on New Year’s Day the Saudis upstaged ISIS by audaciously chopping off the heads of 47 men, including a prominent Shia cleric.
This act of brazen butchery is made all the more horrific by virtue of the fact that the Saudi head-slicers recently landed a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, largely at the insistence of British Prime Minister David Cameron, who personally vouched for the petro-autocracy’s acute sensitivity to matters of civil liberties and the humane treatment of prisoners. Then again the drone-troika of Britain, France and the U.S. also enjoy seats on the council, so perhaps the Saudis have earned their slot after all.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/12/a-comedy-of-terrors/
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