No kraut. It wasn’t a good deal. But im just as worried about all the weapons we sell the evil SOB Saudis. This article is just more prewar battlefield shaping. “Iran bad, we so need to remove Assad”.
The government (except Trump) wants a war with Assad. Its so transparent. Nothing more.
Peter Hitchens Sunday Oct. 2nd column leads his blog and in the middle of it he comments on Syria.
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk
Part of his comment:
“If a small army of Islamist terror fanatics makes its base in a crowded city, and will not let women and children leave, it is very hard to know what to do. For instance, the Iraqi army was faced with this problem in 2014 when it sought to recapture the city of Fallujah from Jihadists. Nouri-al-Maliki, then President of Iraq and so the West’s ally, used barrel bombs to fight ISIS terrorists in Fallujah. Pro-ISIS propaganda made much of the civilian deaths, but I don’t recall the USA, or the BBC, or the moralizing choir who now emote over Aleppo and shout “war-crimes,” saying much. Nor do we hear at all from those moralists about Saudi Arabia’s rather savage little war now going on in Yemen (using British munitions) in which more than 2,000 civilians are said to have died. There’s a similar problem over the severe criticisms of the Syrian government made by the USA’s diplomats and their mouthpiece, the BBC....”