Invasion Nation
Will they? Won’t they? Finally, it looks like the question as to whether the US would attack Syria has been sorted out…at least for now. Syria can thank George W. Bush and Tony Blair (apart from the Russians): after all, had the “leader” and the poodle not embarked on the Iraq mis-adventure, chances are both Obama and Cameron would have found it easy to garner domestic support to launch their offensive on Syria. I remember this quote of the day in The Dish when Cameron was “thwarted” by the British Parliament: “I accept that Britain can’t be part, and won’t be part, of any military action on that front but we must not in any degree give up our utter revulsion at the chemical weapons attacks that we have seen and we must press this point in every forum that we are a member,” – British prime minister, David Cameron, up-ended by something called democracy. The last remark, “up-ended by something called democracy”, was meant as a wake-up call to the US Senate/Congress to do thei...