NO 'GOOD' OPTIONS - NO EASY OPTIONS. SYRIA AND THE WEST

I can barely bring my self to write too about the events in Syria, The situation is truly awful, it has felt like watching Srebrenica all over again. The more Assad got away with the bolder he and his thuggish crime family became. We now see the results in the suburbs of Damascus.

Had we intervened earlier, when the regime was haemorrhaging support, when the Free Syrian Army was the primary source of opposition and conflict, relatively uncontaminated by sectarian infighting and there were few fundamentalist Jihadist forces, we might have tipped the balance? There were never any easy options, now there are no good ones, only less bad ones. Certainly one cannot be sure of the consequences of air strikes.
 As western governments watched on, wringing hands and tut tutting, Assad committed numerous crimes under international law and a popular uprising descended into a bitter sectarian civil war. It is now difficult to see any outcome that will meet the needs of the Syrian people who took to the streets demanding freedom and democracy over two years ago; any intervention being, in that sad and weary phrase, ‘too little too late.’ I now feel despondent about the future of the whole Levant.


One thing is for certain the shrill brigade of the so called Stop the War Crowd will be chanting their inane slogans, though one suspects that they may be reticent to take the ‘we are all Hezbollah’ line formerly adopted.
The ludicrous chant now being, Hands off Syria, propagating the line, popular I believe with the Baath party, that the Assad regime and Syrian people are one and the same.
Already the fellow travellers of this Pro Iranian front organisation have been parading their consciences on the TV screen.

One can imagine this crowd handing out leaflets on September 1st 1939.

HANDS OF GERMANY
THE POLISH WAR IS NOT OUR WAR.

The terrible events in Poland must not blind us to the basic facts:-

  1. Danzig is a German city, the population have voted overwhelmingly for re-unification with Germany, from which they were separated by the grotesque, unjust and racist treaty of Versailles.
  2. The Germans offered to negotiate but the Poles openly refused.
  3. Yes Hitler and the Nazi’s are unpleasant, but so too is the nationalist and anti-Semitic Polish government. If we support the Poles we will be backing some very unpleasant people.
  4. This war is a dispute between Germany and Poland and is none of our business.

We say stay out of Poland’s fight, DON’T ATTACK GERMANY.


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