COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Why should Assad retire?
He represents the people of Syria better than anyone else.
The army supports him. The country's main clan groups
support him.
By all accounts a majority of Syrians support him.
Remember, David Cameron represents exactly 35% of British
voters, hardly a democratic mandate.
Even were Cameron a more representative leader of Britain,
what business is it of his to pass on the acceptability of Assad?
None.
That is clearly up to the Syrian people to decide.
Cameron of course is the recipient of regular calls from Tel
Aviv on these matters, and Israel is one of the group that created the horror
in Syria for its own interests.
Israel wants Assad out and Syria reduced to the kind of rump
state that Iraq is after the American invasion.
What is really at stake here is never discussed in public,
and certainly not by the inept and rather dishonest David Cameron.
What is at stake is the right of states to exist in peace
without outside interference from aggressive states like America and Israel.
The roles of Turkey and Saudi Arabia in this horror are only
possible because America approves. Nothing of this nature could happen
otherwise.
