Dear President Ahtisaari,
I had the pleasure of meeting you on a number of occasions over the years, including when I was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and I recall your genuine concern for democracy and human rights in a region where they are sadly neglected.
Like a great many people in Scotland I was shocked that CMI is employing Jim Murphy. Of course, in a democracy there are always losers as well as winners in elections, and both are genuine and valid participants in public life. It is not the fact that CMI employs a politician who has been so recently, comprehensively and humiliatingly rejected by his national electorate that will do any damage to CMI. In a sense I think it does you credit.
What shocks many people here is that Mr Murphy is by any standards a dedicated warmonger. He was a major and important proponent of the invasion of Iraq, and is the strongest of supporters of the massive increase of Britain’s nuclear arsenal, in breach of the Non Proliferation Treaty.
Mr Murphy is a member of the Henry Jackson Society, which as you know is a body which exists to promote United States neo-conservative foreign policy in its most aggressive sense, and openly and actively supports and condones extraordinary rendition and the use of torture by the CIA. It has supported every single military action by the USA since its formation, and defends United States exceptionalism in international law, including US non-membership of the International Criminal Court.
Mr Murphy’s belief set is therefore fundamentally at odds with the stated aims of CMI. Indeed, his employment by you can only lead to the suspicion that CMI’s stated objectives are not its real objectives, and that like Mr Murphy and the Henry Jackson Society your overriding goal in the regions where you operate is to promote the interests of the United States.
As you are funded by charitable donations and by governments, I think some explanation of your employment of Mr Murphy is in order, particularly when you have employed him as a conflict resolution expert in the Caucasus and Central Asia when he has no relevant experience of conflict resolution at all, virtually none of the Caucasus, and absolutely none of Central Asia.
I was the Head of the UK Delegation that negotiated the Sierra Leone Peace Treaty, and certainly under no circumstances would I let Jim Murphy anywhere near that kind of negotiation.
With All Best Wishes,
Amb (rtd.) Craig Murray
So Anon1 wants to bomb and kill everyone.
Perhaps you can explain who exactly you want to bomb and kill?
And please, no comic book stuff.
“I just don’t want them, or anyone else doing it in my front yard.”
‘Any reason to get excited?’ said The Joker to The Thief.
You have a yard in the front? I thought you would have a garden filled with weed?
IISIS still holds Fallujah and Mosul, for several months and the Neocons were on Sunday talk TeeVee regurgitating the iniquities of Iraq of Mosul and Fallujah fame.
It’s all about boots being promoted to ground as a virtue. House-to-house is the only means of extricating the fleas and ticks infesting the household. This is what ISIS wants. They want to confront troops not drones and bombs for which they have no defense.
The Neocons want the same thing. What does that tell you?
RobG, man you’re as thick as a brick.
” The Neocons want the same thing. What does that tell you? ”
Very simple my dear Watson, that you’re smokin’ something!
“So Anon1 wants to bomb and kill everyone.
Perhaps you can explain who exactly you want to bomb and kill?”
I would have thought the target was pretty clear even in your addled state – I wonder if you have expressed you views on recent events to the locals or is solidarity something that you are incapable of?
Fred, reading the Daily Telegraph is a bit like taking crystal meth.
Brian; got it dude, but the low road once more…:)
Villager; Does Krishnamurti recommend that you default to unintelligent facile responses?
As part of a threesome I understand a response will require consultation with your paramours.
Take your time.
Ben are you sex-starved or something? Is that why Habby was guessing what he was?
Aren’t you a bit old and long-in-the-tooth to be ‘Dude-ing’ around. Grow up!
Ben why are you so hung up on Krishnamurti? Did you see his talk at the UN? Or couldn’t you be arsed?
Btw, I think your style is much better suited to Sqonk’s. Why did you decide to come back here? Are you claiming to be an Old Troll front-bencher?
Gawd, the foaming-at-the-mouth neo-con loons are quite frightening.
So, you want a major war in the Middle East, is that what you’re saying?
How much slaughter and butchery of innocents is enough for the likes of you?!
And when it comes to religious lunatics, the media will never tell you that most in American centres of power are all Christisn fundamentalists (Protestants) who all dream of the Rapture. Even Obama holds prayer meetings daily in the Whitehouse.
These people are all total psychos.
I’m sure the Syrians would have rather the power stations that supply their water and pump sewage, power hospitals and much more, and other infrastructure left was left unbombed. Russia is helping Syria to prevent a repeat of Libya where air strikes against a regime accused of ‘bombing its own people’ turned into air-support for western-backed ‘rebels’, all out slaughter for kicks and left that country and people ruined.
Fighting ISIS my arse, regime change and takeover by compliant opportunist profiteers, foiled again. This French effort smacks of desperation, before Syria enforces the closure of its airspace against enemy bombers, but it is clear too that France has made preparations for such an attack and war crime to an advanced stage, which required just such a tailor-made provocation as happened in Paris, to give orders to the ready and waiting crews and their machines for the long pre-meditated ‘retaliation’ to begin, before the window of opportunity closes and further illegal sorties have heavy costs.
Could Monsieur Hollande or others in his circle or French banks have fingers in Genie Energy expecting to reap the stolen oil from Syria’s Golan Heights, to be taken out through Israel, with most of the Israeli political estabishment, plus Rupert Murdoch, Jacob Rothschild and Dick Cheney amongst other ghouls personally backing this wild and quite illegal gamble? Syria and Russia should see to it that never a drop is stolen for as long as any of these fiends still draw breath, the multiplication of whose personal wealth they think and try condition us to think, is worth the lives of millions.
RobG do you have a cuddly Jihadi John in your attic?
Tony-come-lately sounds like you’re a habitual loser, whose life has turned very bitter and paranoid.
As a zoophile, I think you’d better go find yourself a cuddly-cat for the night.
You’re too new here to even get a seat on the back bench of The Old Trolls.
RobG:
“And have I mentioned a dead pig and a prick?”
The dead pig being David war-criminal Cameron and the prick attached to him George Osborne.
Mrs Thatcher and her political first-born spawn New Labour have both been definitively rejected by the UK electorate. This is because the idiocy of Thatcherite banking liberalisation policy exploded under Gordon Brown.
What we have now is cocainomics – literally blow your mind on the weekend to forget what you borrowed last week to keep the whole show running.
The policy is to appease the rage of he colonised countries of the British Empire with little bits of pickings which are really nothing more than pork scratchings. The idea is to appease the rage of the whole former Empire, the Saudis, the Africans, the Indians, the Chinese, the Scots, the Irish and anywhere else you care to mention. 132 victims of Saudi rage doesn’t cost the dead pig nothing.
Without appeasing the enraged, who by the way were roundly betrayed by their own self-seeking countrymen, you would soon be reduced to accepting the flaccid pathetic thing that is the UK economy. How can a country, or indeed a continent which is completely bankrupt continue to exercise power and influence by borrowing from the new superpowers? Answer, by exposing their populations to terror created and fostered by them. Here, our doors are open, we have trained you to kill, take your revenge on European citizens.
Our leaders, with the exception of Jeremy Corbyn have no intention of making the UK economy function. They prostitute our safety by helping and funding terrorism and then inviting the terrorists in. As William Hague noted at the start of the last government, Tory Foreign policy might be seen as unusual. Yes, we’ve been pimped by our leaders while they go out partying.
Alcyone, say something at least half-way intelligent, or else you’re a gonna.
Tony M:
“the multiplication of whose personal wealth they think and try condition us to think, is worth the lives of millions.”
Ouch!
Can’t meet your impressively low standards Rob. Sorry its all gone over your drowsy head. Have another drink!
Alcyone to RobG:
“You’re too new here to even get a seat on the back bench of The Old Trolls.”
It takes one to know one. i.e. Villager is one of the Old Trolls and he is projecting his pain of being rejected here onto you. on this blogs die-hard truth-seekers come and go as we all have other things occupying our time. one goes and another banger of nails on the head comes along. Especially when MSM, politicians and trolls are celebrating a particular piece of government stupidity.
I am always impressed how new speakers, new knowledge and damning evidence comes along to squash them.
Guano are you also smoking something and at the same time feeling as sorry for Rob as I am?
My comment you quote was directed at Tony-come-lately, you twit. You are getting senile too, and your praying 5-times a day doesn’t seem to be helping. Are you one of The Old Trolls? I have to make my mind up yet.
Alcyone, you’re a gonna.
No comment on the massive French military strikes that are now taking place in Syria?
No comment on the Russian military strikes that have been taking place for the last few months?
No comment on the Syrian peace talks in Vienna, which resumed the day after the Paris attacks?
Bye bye little troll, and don’t forget to gulp down the remnants of that can of Tenants Super.
AlCyan
Sorry that’s Anon1, no, you are the troll and I am the troll-slayer that keeps cutting off the troll heads and they keep growing back again, like a recurring nightmare.
Keep talking utter nonsense, the lunacy of your sponsors foreign policy is playing out in front of our eyes. Israel gets USUKFranceaustralia etc to fund the destruction of the native populations of the Middle East because they can’t find any other way of regaining their cursed religion except by enemy destruction.
TonyM: “What I meant then Glenn, was not that you were advancing claims of crisis actors etc. but that you were bewailing that everyone else was claiming crisis actors etc. were or even must be involved, when no one was making any such claims of this kind, not here anyway.”
Uh huh. So that’s what you meant by “Fact is Glenn, the only person advancing such claims (it’s immediately assumed […] crisis actors etc.) is erm … you.”
Perhaps you just chose your words very badly? Perhaps you simply failed to understand the clear points I was making?
In any case, you’re apparently denying that False-Flaggers are leaping eagerly on this latest terrorist outrage in France, notwithstanding your claim to have read the comments here. You must be doing so for reasons best known to yourself, because they’re clear for everyone to see. Perhaps you simply wish to avoid being taken seriously.
Glenn_Uk
Even if the paris attacks are not false-flag in the strict sense of being carried out by paid Western servicemen, they are false-flag in terms of the fact that USUKIS etc created the Al Qaida and Islamic State perversions of Islam for their own colonial purposes knowing the blow-back would come, which they also use for their own propaganda purposes to discredit Islam.
Kaida Shaytana dhaeefa. The Devils plan is weak. it’s not so difficult to rumble Rumblestiltskin. These terrorist attacks are absolutely and undeniable false-flag, in so far as they are the predictable outcome of covert USUKIS colonial, hegemony and anti-Islam operations.
“Mrs Thatcher and her political first-born spawn New Labour have both been definitively rejected by the UK electorate. This is because the idiocy of Thatcherite banking liberalisation policy exploded under Gordon Brown.”
Remember that the “liberalisation” of banking has allowed these institutions and their shadow forms to hold the Western financial system together for a time, when ordinarily it would have collapsed rather sharpish.
That time was necessary in order to allow the West to cobble together a new Bretton Woods.
Unfortunately there is now much resistance to forming a new global financial system, in terms that favour the West.
Time is now running out, and things are getting rather desperate.
Remember how Britain cobbled together for itslf a relatively soft economic landing, as its empire declined.
The US has not chosen that path.
Their view is that not only can they maintain their current hegemony, but further expand upon it.
Herbie
“Their view is that not only can they maintain their current hegemony, but further expand upon it.”
I heard a French-something lady on Radio 4 this morning saying that the UK had recuperated from the banking collapse, while France was still in the grip f a recession.
You can fool some of the people some of the time.
Rob you’re just an obsessive, uneducated pleb. You’re not even worthy of being titled a troll, with a small t. God gave you a brain by mistake, all you need is a gullet and belly to down your cheap french wine.
Btw, have you commiserated here with the Paris victims families and friends. They are your host nation after all. But then, as i said you’re just a pleb who thinks a little knowledge of ‘news’ will give you a calling-card. Not with me little boyo.
“Syrian opposition forces fear western countries will come to accept Assad’s argument that they should cooperate with him to fight the jihadis as the lesser evil. Assad’s position is that all those who have fought his government are terrorists.
Russia and Iran, his staunchest allies, share his view, but Saudi Arabia, a key backer of Islamist rebels – though not of Isis – disagrees.”
The second para is why I can’t even be bothered to link to this bullshit, which is all over the media.
“you are the troll and I am the troll-slayer that keeps cutting off the troll heads and they keep growing back again, like a recurring nightmare”
In your head, bird-shit. What good is your praying five-a-day?
RobG
No matter how hard you try, troll hair sticks up straight out of the cavity in which humans have brains. The stiffness of the hair texture and its resistance to change or grooming are small compensations in the troll psychology for the absence of a b***n.