In Sunday’s Sun today: the world is beyond saving

The photograph, posted by a famous journalist, isn’t just horrible. It is beyond words.

CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour tweeted it to her 325,000 Twitter followers. The photograph shows three dead children arrayed for burial. Two of the children appear to be young enough to still be in diapers. They’re babies. There’s blood on their tiny faces.

All three were murdered by militia loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad last weekend. Forty-nine children were killed in Houla, in central Syria; in all, more than 100 civilians were butchered. The world’s response? Just more talk, but no action.

In Canada, the federal government’s response was equally a joke — many months after the Syrian genocide began, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird finally decided to merely expel some Syrian diplomats. That’s all. When I suggested online that the federal government’s reaction to the worsening Syrian tragedy was pathetic, no less than Maher Arar concurred.

“Too little too late,” agreed Arar, who was wrongly imprisoned and tortured in Syria in 2002-03, with the complicity of the RCMP. “This is no more than a face-saving tactic on the part of Canada.”


Liberal leadership rumour mill

Right here on wk.com!

Lotsa stories pinging around the MSM and blogosweird, in the past few weeks, here and here and here and here and here.

Anyone got baseless speculation and scurrilous innuendo they want to pass along?  It’s Friday, it’s rainy, and it’s fun!

Who’s in, who’s out, and who cares? Comment away!  Anonymity guaranteed!

 


This world

Don’t open the links, like I did. But most of you will, I expect.

This and this [DELETED AT THE WISE SUGGESTION OF MS. KIRBIE AND MS. DALY] have reminded me that of my conviction that the world is, essentially, evil and beyond redemption.  That’s what I’ve written for the Sun papers this weekend, too.

Springsteen had it right, here, in that extraordinary final line.  Me, I’m going for a walk.