The Conservatives failed to support those who were holding the line against what is now IS. Indeed, they wanted to bomb them.
But they have understandably issued an attack ad against Owen Smith on the subject.
Yes, Smith is soft on IS. But Jeremy Corbyn is not.
The Soft Left is called that for a reason. As is the Hard Left.
That latter is highly unlikely, for its own reasons, to support almost any war that the Anglo-American foreign policy Establishment is ever going to want to wage.
Throughout the last 20 years, it has been right about that. But it is not pacifist. Very far from it.
Nor is it anything less than clearheaded. Very far from it.
With the Bob Crow Brigade only 30 miles from Raqqa, any chance of getting them to the Gala next year? They'll have won by then.
ReplyDeleteKind of thing that Davey would have done. We'll see.
DeleteWhere comparisons with Spain break down, but in a good way, is that this time people like this are very much on the same side as the Church.
The Anglo-American foreign policy Establishment? The Americans were on the other side in the Falklands War, if anything it was the Soviets who wanted us to defeat a major enemy in Latin America.
ReplyDeleteThat story has never really been told, has it?
DeleteThe Americans were on the other side in the Falklands War
ReplyDeleteMargaret Thatcher was the last Prime Minister who, while being a fierce opponent of the Soviet Union, fought a war in British, rather than American interests.
That story has never really been told, has it?
Oh, I think it has been.
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