Dominic Raab's decidedly lukewarm statement about an attack of which, despite our considerable regional presence, we had been given no notice would have been screamed down as practically treasonable if Jeremy Corbyn or any of the candidates to succeed him had made it.
So much for Corbyn's call for a Privy Council briefing. Nobody in Britain is allowed to know anything at all. Never mind anybody drunk on a beach in Mustique, having somebody try and fail to explain to him who Qassem Soleimani was.
There has just been another such attack, and thus another illegal violation of the sovereignty of Iraq, where the Parliament is poised to demand the expulsion of the American military presence. What will be the response to that? A war for regime change in the cause of freedom and democracy?
Oh, well, so much for Donald Trump as a Russian stooge. But instead of facing down impeachment, he has sold out to the neoconservative wing of his own party, a wing that hates him and always will. Why? Might it have had enough Republican votes in the Senate to have convicted him in alliance with the Democrats, and thus to have removed him from office?
The Democrats perpetrated and applauded this kind of atrocity under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. They would have done so under Killary. And while the regeneration of the Rust Belt is real and exemplary, in international affairs this is a Killary Administration in all but name.
So much for Corbyn's call for a Privy Council briefing. Nobody in Britain is allowed to know anything at all. Never mind anybody drunk on a beach in Mustique, having somebody try and fail to explain to him who Qassem Soleimani was.
There has just been another such attack, and thus another illegal violation of the sovereignty of Iraq, where the Parliament is poised to demand the expulsion of the American military presence. What will be the response to that? A war for regime change in the cause of freedom and democracy?
Oh, well, so much for Donald Trump as a Russian stooge. But instead of facing down impeachment, he has sold out to the neoconservative wing of his own party, a wing that hates him and always will. Why? Might it have had enough Republican votes in the Senate to have convicted him in alliance with the Democrats, and thus to have removed him from office?
The Democrats perpetrated and applauded this kind of atrocity under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. They would have done so under Killary. And while the regeneration of the Rust Belt is real and exemplary, in international affairs this is a Killary Administration in all but name.
Yesterday, we all became Loony Marxists via the railways in the North of England. And today, we have all become Unpatriots in relation to the three countries to which such allegiance has hitherto been required unconditionally, namely the United States that has launched this attack, the Saudi Arabia that has ordered it (as it orders so many acts of terrorism, not least in Britain), and the Israel that has cheered it on.
Raab ought to be on a plane to Tehran, armed only with an assurance that Britain would play no part in this war, for so it already is, if Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe were on the plane home with him. Her detention is Britain's only dispute with Iran. Yet this latest action has placed her in mortal danger.
And who, exactly, are the Americans who have lost their lives in any way that could be connected to Soleimani? Or at the hands of Shia in general, come to that? There are a few. But far, far more have been killed by or on behalf of Saudi Arabia? Is Prince Mohammed bin Salman going to be taken out like this? If not, why not?
There will be a lot of American deaths at Iranian and Iranian-backed hands now, though. A successor to Soleimani has been appointed immediately, because, believe it or not, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had more than one General. And who would now insure an hotel with Trump's name on it? Is there one in Ayia Napa? That would be my very cheap holiday sorted out for this year.
After that, I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
And who, exactly, are the Americans who have lost their lives in any way that could be connected to Soleimani? Or at the hands of Shia in general, come to that? There are a few. But far, far more have been killed by or on behalf of Saudi Arabia? Is Prince Mohammed bin Salman going to be taken out like this? If not, why not?
There will be a lot of American deaths at Iranian and Iranian-backed hands now, though. A successor to Soleimani has been appointed immediately, because, believe it or not, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had more than one General. And who would now insure an hotel with Trump's name on it? Is there one in Ayia Napa? That would be my very cheap holiday sorted out for this year.
After that, I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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