I'm Here

Or am I?

The first day of the G8 Summit opened today (26/5/11) in France with a discussion about nuclear safety in the wake of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe. This was followed by the shock announcement that Ratko Mladic had been arrested before a working lunch and an afternoon session to decide how best to control the Internet in the wake of the Arab Spring. So by my reckoning the summit got on to metaphysics by about 2pm on day one. This does not bode well for day two.

Apart from that I've discovered the root of some parts of western Europe's pure hatred for Ratko Mladic. In 1995 Bosnian-Serb forces detained 7,500 Bosnian-Muslim men and boys at prison camp near Srebrenica. Mladic personally attended the scene and assured the prisoners, the assembled media and the commanders of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission that the prisoners would be both protected and cared for. After Mladic had left the scene the UN peacekeepers from the largely Protestant Netherlands claim that they were forced to stand back and do nothing as the Bosnian-Serb forces massacred the Muslim prisoners. Therefore it is my opinion that Mladic can never receive a fair trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) while it is based in the Hague in the Netherlands.

In other news British MP's have authorised the use of Apache attack helicopters in Libya. However the British Prime Minister, David Cameron has yet to sign off on the idea as the argument between Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama continues. On paper this should be the worlds shortest argument because UK Apache helicopters are operated by the Army Air Corp and are therefore classified as a ground force. The use of ground forces in Libya is specifically prohibited by UNSC resolution 1973(2011) at the request of it's British and French authors. Mind you Britain, France and Qatar have already so extensively defiled 1973(2011) that they may as well have wiped their arses on it. So remind me is it next week a crooked Qatari will try and overthrow Sepp Blatter as the head of FIFA.