So it has happened. We and our allies have sent bombs to Syria. I am not rejoicing.
The mindset that thought it alright to use chemical weapons is not going to stop now. Rather, it may well make them determined that they will not be beaten by the threats from the West.
Listening to Trumps voice as he announced the bombing really was very worrying. He seems to have adopted the role of messiah, wreaking punishment on Assad. What his friend Putin makes of all this is not yet known but nothing good seems likely to follow. The Russians have supported Assad . They have also tried to kill two people in Salisbury......are they going to be content to sit quietly by whilst the West sends bombing raids to Syria?
Mrs Mays voice , solemn and determined sounded much like the one she used last year when calling a disastrous election.
It is being described as a highly successful mission but we can’t know the truth or otherwise of that.
If any human being was killed as part of this strike it makes us no better than those who use chemical warfare against their own people.
Assad was warned last year not to do it again....he has done. Why do we believe that one sort of violence can be cured by another?
The fall out from this will not go away easily. Tony Blair is still being blamed for us going to war in Iraq!
I fear that far from us being thanked or congratulated for our part in this we have joined the ranks of those who have contributed to the ills of the world.
I pray that no more bombs are dropped by anyone involved in this horrid episode....
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2 comments:
I feel much the same. I'm also thinking how useful this event is for Donald Trump and Theresa May as a means of distracting people from the huge problems they both have in domestic policy.
Sadly, Trump is proving how dangerous he is to world peace. The rhetoric is pure poison and he needs to be reined in.
The actions of Mr Assad and his Russian friends, might well be designed to provoke the west for propaganda purposes but are inexcusable when he is using innocent civilians as his target and describing them as terrorists.
When this is all over, I hope that he is taken to the War Crimes Tribunal and held to account, along with those who are supporting him.
Diplomacy has failed, because the UN is hung tied by the Russian Veto. Perhaps it's time for a new Security Council there, which doesn't include them or us for that matter.
Let the world judge Mr Assads actions and condemn them, and we might get action which is legal and concentrated.
But Russia threatening War is another scare tactic - they know very well that they'd be on their own against the rest of the world, and the Nuclear option is one that they know would end in their total destruction.
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