So it is now a few days after the vote in the House of Commons not to get involved in whatever might or might not be the American response to whatever did or didn’t happen in Syria. For my part I suspect that the Syrian government was involved in some way – as to how official that involvement was I haven’t got a clue. The use of chemical weapons is appalling but that really isn’t the point here. The point of my objection to this whole sorry mess is that we don’t understand what the hell this is all about and for the west to stick their size 12’s in would only make matters worse. It certainly won’t ‘send the message’ that we want.
Yet already some of our armchair warriors are trying to rewrite the vote in Parliament. Things have changed they argue, we now know more…perhaps we should have another vote… All of this is nonsense just as the original red lines were nonsense.
Just to show how complicated things are I would ask that you read the following article.
Now I don’t know any of the circumstances as to what actually happened and whether the hyperbole used in the article is actually correct but if there is a red line in Syria why not Iraq? I’m sure that is what many of the people who hate the west so much will be asking and at times it is hard to argue against this.
War is horrible. I’m of the lucky generation who have not had to face the horrors of war unless I chose to. I do believe that there are red lines that once crossed violent action must be taken, with or with out international agreement. I just believe that you really need to know what you are trying to achieve and are willing to fully commit to it. If not then don’t try and mess around in things that you have no idea what the outcome will be.
I hope this is the last time I feel the need to write about this whole sorry mess. I hope and pray that some sort of solution comes to the ancient and wonderful country of Syria. I don’t believe that will be soon and will only happen when the Syrians want it to. It won’t be helped by tossing a few missiles or bombing a few targets by forces that don’t really know what they are getting themselves into.
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