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Robert Fisk, The Independent: David Cameron, there aren't 70,000 moderate fighters in Syria - and whoever heard of a moderate with a Kalashnikov, anyway?
The Blairite Labour MPs are going to vote with Dave because they loathe Corbyn more than Isis
Not since Hitler ordered General Walther Wenck to send his non-existent 12th Army to rescue him from the Red Army in Berlin has a European leader believed in military fantasies as PR Dave Cameron did last week. Telling the House of Commons about the 70,000 “moderate” fighters deployed in Syria was not just lying in the sense that Tony Blair lied – because Blair persuaded himself to believe in his own dishonesty – but something approaching burlesque. It was whimsy – ridiculous, comic, grotesque, ludicrous. It came close to a unique form of tragic pantomime.
At one point last week, one of Cameron’s satraps was even referring to this phantom army as “ground troops”. I doubt if there are 700 active “moderate” foot soldiers in Syria – and I am being very generous, for the figure may be nearer 70 – let alone 70,000. And the Syrian Kurds are not going to conquer Isis for us; they’re too busy trying to survive the assaults of our Turkish allies. Besides, aren’t the “moderates” supposed to be the folk who don’t carry weapons at all? Who’s ever heard before of a “moderate” with a Kalashnikov?
WNU Editor: Robert Fisk unleashed. The funny thing is that years ago I was not sympathetic to Robert Fisk and his analysis .... now .... he s making sense.
Hat Tip Jay for the link.
3 comments:
When your house is infested with ants do you just spray the ones in the kitchen or do you find and destroy the nest
Especially when you know exactly where the nest is in the backyard
Political point scoring aside not bombing isis in syria makes no sense whatsoever the uk should and could from both a moral and tactical standing.
They'd be better off halting weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
It's a matter of credibility.
And fellas, here is "the moderate list" and criteria care of another hoochie mama on the GCC payroll.
http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/11/yes-there-are-70000-moderate-opposition-fighters-in-syria-heres-what-we-know-about-them/
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