Former British Ambassador Murray: The West Is Force of Evil
Aug. 15—Craig Murray, a former British Ambassador and an outspoken opponent of the NATO's wars and the police state methods in the West and a leading defender of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, recently released from British prison, writes on Aug. 12 on his website that he has “finally shed the last of my illusions and I am obliged to acknowledge that the system of which I am a part … is a force for evil.”
He notes that he tried to expose the torture by Western forces during the “War on Terror,” only to be reprimanded for exposing classified material. He writes: “Somehow I mentally compartmentalized this as an aberration, due to overreaction to 9/11 and the unique narcissism and viciousness of then- British Prime Minister Tony Blair. I did not lose faith in Western democracy or the notion that the Western powers, on the whole, were a positive force when contrasted with other powers. It is a hard thing to lose the entire belief system in which you were brought up—probably particularly hard if, like me, you had a very happy life right from childhood and were highly successful within the terms of the governmental system. I have however now finally shed the last of my illusions and I am obliged to acknowledge that the system of which I am a part—call it ‘the West,’ ‘liberal democracy,’ ‘capitalism,’ ‘neo-liberalism,’ ‘neo-conservatism,’ ‘imperialism,’ ‘the New World Order’—call it what you will, in fact, it is a force for evil.”
He continues: “Gaza has been an important catalyst. I am not lacking in empathy, but my knowledge of the horrid butchery by the Western powers in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya was an intellectual knowledge, not a lived experience. Technology has brought us the Gaza genocide—which has so far killed fewer people than any of those earlier NATO-member perpetrated massacres—in gut-wrenching detail…. If only the people of Mosul and Fallujah had had modern mobile phone technology, what horrors we would know.”
He adds regarding Gaza: “That there would be a limit to the number of Palestinian civilian deaths they could accept, the number of UN facilities, schools and hospitals destroyed, the number of little children torn into shreds. I thought that at some stage human decency must outweigh Zionist lobby cash. But I was wrong.”
Murray gives special treatment to Germany: “Germany has effectively ended all freedom of speech on Palestine, banning conferences of distinguished speakers and making pro-Palestinian speech illegal. Germany has intervened on Israel’s side in the genocide case before the ICJ [International Court of Justice], and intervened at the ICC [International Criminal Court] to object to an arrest warrant against Netanyahu. I do not know how many civilian dead would assuage German lust for the expiatory blood of Palestinians—500,000? 1 Million? 2 Million? Or perhaps 6 Million?”
But not only Germany: “The West are not the good guys. Our so-called ‘democratic systems’ give us no ability to vote for anybody who may get into power who does not support the genocide and imperialist foreign policy.”
“We are the Bad Guys. We resist our own governing systems, or we are complicit," he concludes.