war lies from the Ministry of Truth?

[David Morris]

http://www.juancole.com/2013/08/british-parliament-defects.html

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>>  The case of Obama and Cameron against the Syrian government has some
holes, but it isn’t a bad case. But it involves murky allegations of
weapons of mass destruction use by an Arab regime, and a unilateral
Anglo-American shock and awe aerial attack. It looks way too much like
Iraq, and there is no telling where it might lead. Britain is not very far
from Syria and the repercussions of an attack could be significant. Britain
also has a significant Muslim minority population that is die hard set
against an attack on Syria.

The vote puts President Obama between a rock and a hard place. The formerly
solid Anglo-American solidarity has been broken. Obama does not have the
Arab League and he does not have the UN Security Council. He does not even
have a consensus on the European continent.

Obama should pivot now and choose vigorous diplomacy over a military
strike. The latter will now have no legitimacy in international law, and
would not be supported even by the British parliament.

The duplicity of Bush and Blair has deeply injured faith in government,
even on the part of members of government. Their use of the high-flown
rhetoric of protecting helpless populations from tyrants and deflecting
dire threats of WMD cheapened those endeavors and trivialized them They
bent the sword of state and rendered it useless in any similar situation.
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