Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Change of heart.

So should we bomb Syria?  A couple of years back Parliament voted against taking military action in Syria, and I supported that stance.  But that was then and this is now - back then the target was seen to be the Assad government which, whatever your views on it, was the legitimate government of the country, so we would have been supporting revolution.  But now the enemy is ISIS or whatever we're calling them these days.  They have no legitimacy, and pose an existential threat to the area and indeed the world at large.  So the argument has changed.  By attacking them, we would in fact be helping Assad, and that doesn't sit all that comfortably with me, but need must...  I think Parliament must reconsider its decision, as I have reconsidered mine.

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