Epictetus - Discourses on Wargaming
Friday 13 April 2018
What is it good for?
I doubt that anyone is interested, but nevertheless I should like to publicly record my opposition to UK involvement in military attacks Syria. I stand with those who point out that killing more Syrians is a perverse way of protesting about the deaths of their compatriots. All logic says that the only way to get rid of Assad is for the Russians to do it, and one would hope that not even Trump thinks that best way to persuade Putin is to go to war with him; as I say, one hopes.
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I dislike the way Mother Teresa is desperate to rush these attacks through before Parliament re-sits cos she'd lose the vote and not be able to kiss-a**e Trump .
ReplyDeleteIn the UK at least (and I suspect in France as well) it is clearly more about domestic political posturing rather than a genuine concern for the Syrian people. As you say, it suited her to avoid a vote rather than run any risk of losing; a sign that her arguments aren't that good.
DeleteI can understand the desire for a line in the sand on this issue, but it is a measure of the mess our rulers and betters have made since the wall came down that western intelligence estimates on matters such as this are now treated with skepticism, if not outright distrust.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if the story of the Salisbury poisoning has made much impact over there, but one could paraphrase Corbyn's position as being "We should avoid rushing to judgement in case the UK government is lying"; a position he could only take because governments have so obviously lied in the past.
DeleteAnd, sure enough, it turned out that the British Foreign Secretary had indeed been lying, the discovery of which fact will cause him no problems at all it seems.