A hypocrites paradise.
After the pre-tweeted air strikes ordered by a morally
bankrupt US president, a Brexit-weakened Britain and its own ex-colonists
France, Assad celebrates Syrian Independence today and appears stronger than
ever and those suffering under his rule are more at his mercy.
Obama called for consensus on Syrian intervention in
2013 when it might have made a difference – but, still in the horrible thrall
of Blair’s illegal invasion of Iraq, the main US ally, Britain, shrivelled.
Now the UK has Boris Johnson as foreign secretary -
a liar, racist and buffoon. We have, in Gavin Williamson, a whiny, squeaky,
pathetic, creepy, inexperienced, “go away and shut up [Russia]” Defense
Secretary. Our Prime Minister Theresa May is quickly outflanking the previous
Tory leader, David Cameron, for disastrous personal and political judgement.
Last year she called a snap General election she did not need to call and
decimated the small Tory majority. Last week she failed to recall Parliament for a vote on Syria she almost certainly would have won. And while I think the
air strike on Syria was pointless and did nothing to alleviate the ongoing
horrors for the Syrian people – the UK Parliament is one dose of ineptitude
closer to terminal lack of credibility.
As the Mueller imperative grows for he-who-pays-to-silence-porn-stars – Syria is becoming the latest Middle East distraction
from what’s wrong with the addled democracies. Syrian civilians continue to soak up more
misery, more death, more indecision, more moral vacuity, more blood lust until it is so saturated with abomination that – as is
reported of places such as Auschwitz – even the birds won’t sing there...
As the UK steadfastly ignore atrocities in Yemen
where Saudi Arabia – big military customers of the UK - are dishing out horrors to
the civilian population, Syria is fast becoming an international synonym for hypocrisy
but rather than repeat myself - here is a link to the latest of my letters –
this one published by The Independent.
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and here is a doodle from last year -
