AW: Re: profiles in courage

[Hübschräuber]

He-he. I didn't bring Syria up. Mark Kohut did. Rightfully so, I believe, because it is the same playbook. And no, it is not the "Russian playbook".

It seems, however, that I haven't convinced you yet.

Here is an oldie but goodie:

"[W]hat happened to the rules of evidence? Many people have written,
spoken – and now acted – as if the charge was proven. Why the hurry?

Now, Mr Assad is not a nice person. I have been writing rude things
about his bloodstained and wicked regime for years.

But he is not insane. He knows that the use of poison gas is the one
thing that will make the USA intervene against him.

They have said so. He is currently winning his war against Islamist
fanatics, with conventional weapons. He had even finally got the USA to
stop demanding his dismissal.

Five days before the alleged attack – five days! – America’s UN
ambassador, Nikki Haley, announced: ‘Our priority is no longer to sit
there and focus on getting Assad out.’

So why would he do such a thing, and throw away all his victories in a
few minutes? It makes no sense of any kind. As you ponder this, can I
explain something about the place where the gas attack is said to have
happened?

No independent Western journalist could go there. He or she would be
killed or kidnapped within hours.

Any report which comes from that region is filtered through people who
you never see in the film that does get out. I have met men like them on
my travels. I would not want to offend them.

These are the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, alias the Al-Nusra Front, alias Al
Qaeda, the Syrian ‘opposition’ which we in the West have been supporting
for several years.

Yes, that’s right, the people we have been helping are not Liberal
Democrats or Girl Guides or Quakers.

No, they are the same movement which destroyed Manhattan’s Twin Towers."

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/04/peter-hitchens-our-noble-cause-dropping-bombs-on-behalf-of-al-qaeda.html

I won't bother you with the details about Shajul Islam. I assume that you are not interested in them anyway.

As for Douma, you prefer to believe NED-financed Bellingcat over the OPCW inspectors who investigated on the ground, claimed that their report was manipulated by their superiors in order to make it appear that the Syrian army was responsible, and have nothing to win but everything to lose by doing this.

I can't help you there. Just be prepared for déjà vus...

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/opcw-leaks-syria/

As for the village idiot quoted below: He seems to have missed that Ukrainians have been killing Ukrainians for eight long years. No surprise there. I know that his TV has not told him about it.