United
Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron
David Cameron wanted to
bomb Syria two years ago but suffered a humiliating defeat in a vote before
Parliament. Let us be clear about one thing: if Cameron and others had got
their way two years ago, the so-called Islamic State and a range of Jihadi groups would be in control of
Syria today.
And if 'control' is too
strong a word, it would be in as much chaos as Libya is today. The Libyan
enterprise by NATO to overthrow Gaddafi was firmly backed by Cameron who used
British Special Forces to train and guide Islamist
rebels in attaining this objective.
After the chemical
attack in Ghouta, a dubious event which was likely perpetrated by either Saudi
or Turkish intelligence in order to provoke President Obama to make good on his
ill-fated assertion about "red lines", the idea was to bomb and
'degrade' the capabilities of the Assad government which the West and its
Middle East Sunni allies were keen to blame.
Now Cameron wants to bomb Islamic State insurgents.
A few British fighter
jets have been part of the patently phony war waged against Islamic State for over a
year by the US and its Middle East allies. The Russian effort in two months has
shown this to be the case.
Need it be reminded
that it was Cameron who one day was supporting the Mubarak regime and then when
it was toppled, visited the newly installed junta to sell it military weapons.
But it is not only
about the hypocrisy of Cameron the man and politician. It is about the
hypocrisy and double-dealing of the Western powers specifically in regard to
Syria and generally to the Middle East and North Africa geo-political theatre.
The turmoil in Syria
was the creation of the Western powers acting in concert with Turkey and the
Sunni Gulf monarchies who seek to overthrow the secular government of Bashar al
Assad. This is the bottom line reason why the Islamic State and other Jihadi groups have
grown so powerful.
But after the tragedy
of Paris, Cameron is confident that the United Kingdom's public outrage along
with the media's whipping up of the drums of war will get him the Parliamentary
rubber stamp to intervene in a conflict which according to former French
foreign minister, Roland Dumas, was planned and orchestrated years in advance
by British officials along with other Western powers.
Cameron's motives are
far from benign. They bear the vestiges of the 'humanitarian bomber' with an insidious agenda. He wants to be part of a campaign which would justify a British
presence in Syria which along with French involvement would be utillised in a
manner that would in the future attempt to effect the desired overthrow of
Assad as well as the dismantling of the Syrian state.
The unquestioning media
along with the gullible electorate are complicit in allowing leaders like
Cameron to continually get away with such fundamental dishonesty.
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Adeyinka Makinde (2015)
Adeyinka
Makinde is a writer based in London, England.
It also seems the powers that be have been finding as many ways as possible to delay the completion and publication of the Chilcot enquiry, so they can get their war on Syria launched first.
ReplyDeleteImagine if bombing Syria came to the vote again just after Chilcot had laid bare all the deceit and hidden agendas preceeding the Iraq invasion so that the folly and criminality of that war was foremost in people's minds. It would seem very incongruous to the public to be embarking on a war in that context.