Hope springs eternal when a Republican Presidential Debate on foreign policy can find even Herman Cain promising to oppose any war against Iran, even Rick Perry promising to cut aid to Israel to zero until that State had proved her loyalty to America (Philip Giraldi, over to you), and Ron Paul cheered to the echo on the rare occasions when the corporate media co-moderators allowed him to say anything.
But, fresh from its endorsement by the arbiters of liberal democracy in the Arab League, the Syrian Opposition in which we are all to have such confidence has also been clutched to the bosom of the present government in Turkey. That governing party, the AKP, is overtly Islamist, and Tunisia's recently victorious Ennahda was founded out of it.
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If only this were nothing more than the restoration of the Ottoman Caliphate. The Christians are going to be far worse off under this than they ever were under that. Look at Iraq since we went in there to improve matters.
ReplyDeleteMany Iraqi Christians have fled to Syria since their own country ws "liberated". Where are they supposed to flee to now? What will it take for Middle America to wake up to the existence of ancient Christian communities in the Middle East?
ReplyDeleteTruly a "glittering ornament" of Camel Corps Central, the Arabs' and Iranians' academic base in Britain, awash with their cash, controlling preferment through involvement in a "Palestinian Education Trust" with a list of patrons to make any Durham eyes water, and just invented a Chair for the man forced to leave the LSE because he had "supervised" Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's "PhD".
ReplyDeletePlus embittered by being forced out of the Telegraph for calling Conservative Friends of Israel "treasonable". An organisation that 80% of Tory MPs including the Prime Minister are members of. But accusing them all of treason for wanting friendship with Israel is acceptable behaviour at a Durham high table. Unremarkable and more or less compulsory, in fact.
Beit Maroun (love the name, by the way), where, indeed? But the changes in the GOP, as austerity calls global empire into question, do suggest that Middle America might be waking up after all.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 22:21, friendship with Israel is one thing. The treason now confirmed by the resignation of Liam Fox is something else entirely.