While David Cameron is rallying support among EU leaders to send arms to the rebels opposing the Assad regime in Syria, he also faces a battle to persuade the British public to back the plan. According to a survey for The Independent, people do not believe Britain should provide military supplies to the rebels.
Damned right we shouldn’t get involved. It’s not our fight. Just as we shouldn’t have got involved in Libya, Iraq or Afghanistan.
Damned right we shouldn’t intervene. The political classes and the Guardianista’s might see them as freedom fighters, but as the rest of the so called Arab Spring showed we’d just be exchanging one regime for a far worse one.
As someone pointed out in the comments to the Independent’s article – the so called freedom fighters are simply Islamists who despise us and everything we represent. So why should we be arming them?
Because elements of the Guardianistas, the ultra-left and the political classes have a hard on for Islamist religious totalitarianism?
As for Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and so on. I agree. The UK should pursue a non-interventionist foreign policy. If the UK is not being threatened then stay out of it. I think the military should be a lot stronger than it is, but also that it should not get involved in stupid and pointless foreign wars.
Because elements of the Guardianistas, the ultra-left and the political classes have a hard on for Islamist religious totalitarianism?
As indeed have the political right, who were more than happy to arm and supply the most extreme Islamists in order to get the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan.
I note how you conflate those who read the Guardian, the “ultra-left” and the political ruling classes of this country, into one homogenous group, yet they represent vastly differing political constituencies. I doubt you have any coherent or clear idea of what “the ultra left” believe in, as you are chanting slogans rather than engaging whatever may constitute you mind upon the subject.
Wonder who’d be paying for the arms, us or the rebels? Us I’d guess. Not that it’d make any difference to the manufacturers – business is business.
I’d have no trouble with medical supplies and other forms of ‘humanitarian aid’, but how many would just be snatched by the militias and black-market marketeers, anyway?
Nope. Not even that. The only foreign aid we should consider is immediate disaster relief in the wake of a natural disaster – sending in practical help, for example. A civil war is a matter for the protagonists and no one else.
Like Spain in the 1930’s which encouraged Adolf a lot, you mean?
Be very careful, in either direction.
Adolf used Spain as a dry run.