The UK Parliament voted against military action against Syria. This is being presented as a defeat for Cameron and Hague, his Foreign Secretary.
I wonder if that is so. Attacking Syria is a crackpot idea. It can only make things worse. Cameron and Hague know that. They have never shown any enthusiasm for getting Britain involved in Syria's civil war. I suspect they engineered a House of Commons defeat and after the vote would have been found skipping merrily about Cameron's office, delighted with the success of their cunning plan.
If they wanted to lose why did they even float the idea? I think they had no choice brcause they were under pressure from several groups.
The Israel Lobby - Israel's supporters give a lot of money to the Conservative Party. Were there threats that the money would be cut off if the UK did not join in an attack on Syria?
Profiteers - people who made a lot of money from Iraq and Afganistan and now need a new war.
The Blimps - people who think they are living in 1913 and believe that Britain's prestige [and their dicks] will be shrunk if we don't join in any war that is going.
Saudi Arabia
I think Obama is under pressure from pretty much the same people and is equally unwilling to do their bidding, but cannot afford to openly defy them. I think he was so taken by Cameron's cunning move that he decided the try the same trick. Can you think of any other reason why he should have suddenly decided he needed a vote from Congress before starting the war?
I suspect he is now praying that Congress will give him the thumbs down.
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UN investigator says Syrian rebels used Sarin gas
In an interview with Swiss-Italian TV on Sunday, Ms Del Ponte, who
serves on the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria,
said: "Our investigators have been in neighbouring countries
interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals.
"According to their report of last week, which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated."
Carla Del Ponte said testimony from victims and doctors had given rise to "strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof" that the rebels had used Sarin.
This is all very disappointing for those who have been busy trying to push the USA and UK into war with Syria. It also raises the question as to who supplied the rebels with the gas and why they did it.
It was interesting to see how the British media treated the story.
The BBC web site put and kept the story on its front page but revised the story substantially over today in a obvious attempt to cast doubt on Ms Del Ponte's comments. The BBC has been accepting rebel statements as gospel and publishing them without any clear attempt to verify them. Proper journalistic standards have been abandoned when it comes to presenting the rebel case but all of a sudden the BBC's critical facilities have been restored when it comes to rubbishing an inconvenient truth. Was there a call from Number 10 to the state controlled media?
The Telegraph also had the story on its front page this morning. By the evening it had been cut and moved to an inside page and placed alongside a story about British tourists in Italy being overcharged for ice cream.
The Guardian web site never had the story at all. Not important enough for you, chaps?
Humbert Wolfe said
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
Unfortunately, the first line is not true.
"According to their report of last week, which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated."
Carla Del Ponte said testimony from victims and doctors had given rise to "strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof" that the rebels had used Sarin.
This is all very disappointing for those who have been busy trying to push the USA and UK into war with Syria. It also raises the question as to who supplied the rebels with the gas and why they did it.
It was interesting to see how the British media treated the story.
The BBC web site put and kept the story on its front page but revised the story substantially over today in a obvious attempt to cast doubt on Ms Del Ponte's comments. The BBC has been accepting rebel statements as gospel and publishing them without any clear attempt to verify them. Proper journalistic standards have been abandoned when it comes to presenting the rebel case but all of a sudden the BBC's critical facilities have been restored when it comes to rubbishing an inconvenient truth. Was there a call from Number 10 to the state controlled media?
The Telegraph also had the story on its front page this morning. By the evening it had been cut and moved to an inside page and placed alongside a story about British tourists in Italy being overcharged for ice cream.
The Guardian web site never had the story at all. Not important enough for you, chaps?
Humbert Wolfe said
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
Unfortunately, the first line is not true.
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