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 their job and to not be a rubber stamp.

But before you go overboard in celebrating Britain for a having a checks-and-balances system that works, take a look at this map of the world:

The red area shows the list of countries Britain has invaded at some or the other point in history: that’s 90% of all countries on the planet! This map includes countries invaded via British proxies, like those infamous pirates on the British Navy’s payroll from a century or two back. And here you thought that the US and Russia are the worst of the lot! They are the ones with the power today, that’s the only difference.