Double standards not a word about “our” “responsibility to protect” civilian life in Yemen. In the entire UK mainstream press, we found a single opinion piece, in the Guardian, condemning the vote under the title, “The Labour rebels who didn’t back the Yemen vote have blood on their hands.” A curiously vague Guardian leader commented merely of the Yemen motion: “Though admirable, it could change government policy only indirectly, by contributing to moral pressure.” Apart from that, the only other mention was in passing in a comment piece on the Yemen disaster in the Telegraph. No corporate journalist raised the ques-
The vote makes a complete nonsense of the UK’s famed enthusiasm for “responsibility to protect”
tion that cried out to be asked: if Britain cares enough about civilian suffering in Kosovo, Libya and Syria to actually go to war, then how can it not merely suspend support for Saudi Arabia while potential war crimes are investigated? Literally no journalist made the point that the vote makes a complete nonsense of the UK’s famed enthusiasm for “responsibility to protect.” The warmongers’ silence tells us their “compassion” is a tool of realpolitik, nothing more. CT David Edwards and David Cromwell are coeditors of Medialens, the UK media watchdog – www.medialens.org
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