Au contraire. Au contraire. I thought Hilary Benn’s speech was well delivered, but workmanlike in construction and told us nothing that we did not already know – and was vacuous and banal of the geopolitical consequences. I suspect it was adored by the media because it accorded with their point of view; bomb people – they’re gagging for it, those secular and democratic Syrians, they want hi-tech UK ordnance. Nothing they want more than to be bombed.
It will all make things worse than they are at present; not much worse, I grant you, because our airstrikes are at best peripheral. Just a bit worse. Dupes such as Benn still think that these middle eastern countries can be enjoined to participate in the happy, democratic union of liberal countries. Free from, uh, ‘fascism’. Which sort of fascism do you wish them to be free of, Hilary?
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