Which is great, and reflects on the actual intelligence levels of everyone. But the issue is the mass majority who simply tweeted bomb Assad a couple of years ago and moved on. The Bandwagon Jumpers I suppose.
But HOPING to be able to go visit all my pals up there early next year⌠They need every dollar we can spend in that Country now
Just as Syria stands on the cusp of eliminating IS and has started to establish an infrastructure that could help the nation rebuild, the West starts finding evidence that would let them âtake direct actionâ against Assad and blast the remainder of the country back to the stone age.
Because thatâs what their mates in Israel want then they can follow that up by starting on Iran
IF there is a case to answer on Chemical Weapons then let the country stabilise first and then follow due legal process & the Hague can deal with it. Do not destroy the only chance of starting to find a lasting solution now
Thought Iâd post this in here. A lot has been going on don here of late, and this article sums up the Guradianâs analysis. I wonât comment on that.
What is true is that Iraq WAS the balance in the web down here and the US did drop an almighty clanger.
Now more than anything this part of the world stands to be somewhere to keep an eye on.
What I would say is how much of this stuff has happened SINCE Trump visited Saudi, but no I wonât speculate.
From what I have read neither the US nor Israel are keen on war in Lebanon.
I would be more worried if I was living in Qatar. The crown Prince will want to flex some muscle and having bombed the fuck out of Yemen I reckon the tanks could have a run out in Qatar.
Letâs not forget that Priti Patel had _agreed _to _fund _the _Israeli Defence Force _in occupied terrority, not least because it makes this easier to swallow.
I guess one manâs extremistâ is another manâs freedom fighter. Personally I think we tend to forget that when it comes to Israel in the occupied territories but the mainstream media doesnât like to put it that way.
That article mentions nothing of Russia being in Syria at the request of the legitimate Syrian Government.
Nor of the Western (UK/US/EU) support for terrorist (read moderate) opposition groups.
It mentions the Russian/Assad bombing of Idlib but does not say that it was US forces which supervised the withdrawal of Nusra Front/Al Quaida fighters from Aleppo and elsewhere to Idlib. There is no mention of regime change which is what itâs about.
Which, considering it is from the usually Left leaning Grauniad is odd.
But the final line is still much pretty much the case.
Other tales emerging now from Tunisia about how Regime Change there is failing the population and protests are again spreading.
All around the same time Iâve been asked to prepare a synopsis for a Paper at a high end Academic Uni conference in EU later in the year about conflict. me? Academic? I canât even use a spell checker properly
I have just been reading an account (by Robert Fisk) of the suffering of civilians (and particularly children with various cancers caused by the use of depleted unranium shells) in Iraq.
It paints a pretty bleak picture of how the US and allies sacrificed innocents to promote regime change.
Iâll pop a review in the What are you reading thread sometime but in the meantime, whilst reading about todayâs âself-defenceâ US bombing raid in Syria, I came across this: