No to Syria. Common sense prevails at last?

According to our chancellor, the British and our politicians will have some soul searching to do following the government's defeat in parliament last night.

Soul searching to do? The British people have a soul and they expressed it yesterday via their parliamentary democracy. We are not cowards, we are not racists, we are not helping the enemy but we are tired of imperialism masked as intervention, of regime change masked as "emergencies" and we are tired of helping out the USA, being the fig leaf to its naked militarism of recent times. The soul of the UK remembers that we helped create the international laws and conventions that we were about to break. We want international interventions to be backed by the international community, most of it not some of it and we want to do the right thing for the people here and in the world's worst places and our politicians cannot accuse us of being cowards or traitors for not wanting to attack Syria.

And since the vote on Thursday the USA has declared France to be its best and oldest ally, the UK has been demoted for now in some kind of realpolitik hissy fit and the posturing continues with Putin wading in as he does.

 August 30, 2013