Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.
February 17, 2012
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The UN General Assembly has adopted an anti-Syria resolution that was drafted by the Arab League and backed by the United States and the United Kingdom.
On Thursday, 137 members of the UN voted in favor of the resolution, while 12, including Russia and China, voted against the measure.
Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Tarpley, author and historian from Washington, to further discuss the issue.
The following is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Arguments have been made both for and against the fact that the adoption of such a resolution can give the green light to a military intervention in Syria. Where do you stand on that?
Tarpley: Well, it’s hard to see how this could make any armed action legal, just because of the way the UN is set up, as resolutions, the chapter 7 armed force international peace and security resolution have to go through the Security Council.
And as you mentioned, this particular one has already been rejected twice with the cross vetoes because of the Chinese and Russians, once in October and now again in February.
It is rather a kind sour grape; it is kind of a desperate ploy by Susan Rice and her gang of puppets and people that she bosses around to try to bring this to the UN General Assembly.
I think it’s also interesting to see, who voted against this, because it’s a very large part of the world.
The largest country geographically, Russia, was against it, the largest demographically, China, was against it. Syria of course, the most interested, was against it.
The leading country in Latin America, Venezuela, against it, joined by Bolivia, Cuba and Ecuador!
Sri Lanka, who has had some experience with terrorism, sponsored the Western countries themselves, Pakistan, one huge and important country.
The others were Cambodia, the DPRK, that’s pretty much the group. The outer role of the 12 that stood up to imperialism!
And of course Iran has a key place in that.
So these are the countries that people will look to politically, for leadership against imperialism, in our time.
Certainly, they will be looking to Ban Ki-moon, who is not really acting like the UN Secretary General, but rather as a kind of a spokesperson for the White House and number 10 Downing Street and the Elysee palace.
The one thing that I would point to is that when London and Washington don’t get what they want, through legal means, they attempt to create an outside event.
And this of course raises, once again the specter of false flag terror operations, conducted to try to demonize Syria, or some other part of this coalition, and so those sooner rather than later.
We’re already beginning to pick up straws in the wind right, when you look out over the internet, people are beginning to circulate reports about air traffic and planned events.
None of these can be verified, but they start in March, and they go all the way through to May, June, into the summer.
So I think its time for tremendous vigilance, and to immaculate world public opinion, that terror event that seem to emanate from Syria, at this point must be attributed by the Western or NATO intelligence agencies.
Press TV: You covered a bit of this, but can you discuss a bit about the method that is being used by the sponsors of this resolutions, having it being passed. I mean, especially, with the rejection of amendments that have been put forth by Russia, which would seemingly make the resolution much more balanced.
Tarpley: Right, it’s a one sided resolution. And the Russian amendments would have helped matters, but they were simply dismissed out of hands.
The other question is, whether there’s going to be any negotiation between the two sides within Syria.
The US and NATO position is, that there must be no dialogue. The dialogue is out of the question.
So that I think is obviously wrong.
The other thing is, even with the Russian amendments, I don’t think the UN has gotten a clear idea of what’s going on, which is the reality of death squads.
In other words, this is a rebellion, in a small scale, by death squads, who are supported from places like Turkey, Iskenderun.
We just had reports on AL Jazeera this afternoon, about all the weapons that are coming across from Lebanon, were presumable Saad Hariri, and other people that are making sure that weapons are shipped into cities like Hama and Homs.
The Jordanian border remains the other Haderia, Dera’a, and then the border with Iraq.
So it’s a completely fomented from outside rebellion, and it doesn’t control any territory and is completely fragmented.
Anyone who says that fighting against an armed insurrection is a crime is saying that Abraham Lincoln would have been a criminal, because that’s exactly what he did.
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