Is there not something odd about a Prime Minister talking of getting involved in the Syrian civil war on the very day that another 4,500 British service personnel had their redundancy notices handed to them?
It has always been my belief that you should never even tinker in a conflict unless you are prepared to go all the way should circumstances change (as they tend to). Britain no longer has the capability to get fully involved in Syria. So I suppose that we will all have to hope that Mr Cameron and Mr Hague possess an uncanny ability for identifying moderates, arm them nicely and just hope that everything goes well.
We must certainly hope that Cameron and Hague’s moderation-sensors are better tuned than Senator McCain’s. It is the Senator, readers will remember, who after a trip to Syria earlier this month assured America that he can identify the ‘right people’ in the opposition. The fact that the ‘right people’ he met with while in Syria turn out to include various kidnappers is easily brushed away. Small mistake. Unlikely to be repeated. And in any case, what could possibly go wrong should such sloppiness and vim go hand-in-hand with the supply of weaponry?
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