The brutal repression of legitimate Syrian dissent is a perfect case-in-point as to why we need a unified world government.
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, following faithfully in the bloody footprints of his thuggish father, former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, showed the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree:
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BEIRUT (AP) –Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed Tuesday to respond to threats against him with an “iron hand” and refused to step down, insisting he still has his people’s support despite the 10-month-old uprising against him.
In his fourth speech since the revolt began in March, Assad repeated claims that a foreign conspiracy and terrorists are behind the unrest — not true reform-seekers.
“Our priority now is to regain security which we basked in for decades, and this can only be achieved by hitting the terrorists with an iron hand,” Assad said in the speech at Damascus University, where he stood at a podium flanked by Syrian flags. “We will not be lenient with those who work with outsiders against the country.”
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Well darn, what’s a poor despot to do? It is the family business, after all.
Bashar, running unopposed, was elected president in 2000, and re-elected in 2007, with 97% of the adoring populace supporting his candidacy (Wink, wink, nod, nod.) His campaign slogan was, “support me or die!” As the single plank in the Ba’ath party platform, it was hard for Joe Syria to argue against…
Does anyone honestly think this slimy former ophthalmologist has been ruling Syria for the past 12 years for the good of the Syrians?
We, all of us who share our planet with the Assads of the world, are held hostage by their lunatic ravings, their political repressions and the remorseless subjugation of the hapless populations in their private police-states. We are all lessened by their abuses—and powerless to prevent them.
The United States, the world’s remaining superpower, has lost the moral authority to act as the world’s policeman, and realistically can no longer afford to shoulder the financial load in any unilateral action. We need a unified world body with teeth to stand up for the rights of the average Syrian.
We need a world body with the moral authority to act in defense of the defenseless; the moral authority granted through representative multilateral cooperation; the moral authority of a democratically elected, unified world government.
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