Wednesday, February 28, 2018

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ALL THE TALK OF HORROR IN EAST GHOUTA AND NOT A WORD OF BLAME WHERE IT REALLY BELONGS - WHAT WOULD BRITAIN DO WITH GANGS OF HEAVILY-ARMED MERCENARIES DROPPED INTO A BRITISH CITY?




COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PATRICK COCKBURN IN THE INDEPENDENT


'People are being killed every day': Life trapped inside 'Hell on Earth'

Put the blame squarely where it belongs.

And that is on the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia - paymasters and service providers for terror.

And by the way, for a long period, Britain and France were willing helpers. Cameron used to pretend to bomb ISIS while bombing Syrian infrastructure to, in effect, help them. France did the same.

It is absurd for any newspapers to charge Syria’s national government in this horror of East Ghouta.

It is still a fairly popular government, supported by a majority, and it is a government which defends religious minorities.

They are fighting well-equipped, bloodthirsty foreign-paid mercenaries.

Just what would Westminster do with huge gangs of well-armed foreign thugs holding a British city captive?

Good God, we hear a huge amount of noise over just a few returning ISIS volunteers.

And I recall the bloody efforts against the IRA.

Further, what does Israel do when some poor frustrated people held in Gaza send some over-sized fireworks in protest into Israel, something involving no genuine threat to the state and certainly no threat from outside?

They kill them, by the thousands with jets and bombs and tanks, and then hold them without any access to repairs or services, leaving them to suffer interminably.