US to arm Syrian rebels

[Aurora]

The Independent - 16/06/13

Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria

World Exclusive: US urges UK and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing conflict.

Article continues ...

[Little John]

The Independent - 16/06/13

Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria

World Exclusive: US urges UK and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing conflict.

Article continues ...

from the same article:

........Washington’s excuse for its new Middle East adventure – that it must arm Assad’s enemies because the Damascus regime has used sarin gas against them – convinces no-one in the Middle East. Final proof of the use of gas by either side in Syria remains almost as nebulous as President George W. Bush’s claim that Saddam’s Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

For the real reason why America has thrown its military power behind Syria’s Sunni rebels is because those same rebels are now losing their war against Assad. The Damascus regime’s victory this month in the central Syrian town of Qusayr, at the cost of Hizballah lives as well as those of government forces, has thrown the Syrian revolution into turmoil, threatening to humiliate American and EU demands for Assad to abandon power. Arab dictators are supposed to be deposed – unless they are the friendly kings or emirs of the Gulf – not to be sustained. Yet Russia has given its total support to Assad, three times vetoing UN Security Council resolutions that might have allowed the West to intervene directly in the civil war........

[UndercoverElephant]

The Independent - 16/06/13

Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria

World Exclusive: US urges UK and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing conflict.

Article continues ...

Oh shit.

This is now heading towards being the most serious conflict since the end of the Vietnam war. All it needs now is Israel to join in and we have a recipe for something catastrophic.

[Aurora]

The Independent - 16/06/13

Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria

World Exclusive: US urges UK and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing conflict.

Article continues ...

Oh shit.

This is now heading towards being the most serious conflict since the end of the Vietnam war. All it needs now is Israel to join in and we have a recipe for something catastrophic.

Stop! Stop! You'll have me in raptures.

[Lord Beria3]

Hostility growing in UK to backing the rebels... Boris has now joined the opposition.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... e-won.html

This feels almost Blairesque, a UK PM, obsessed with foreign intervention, trying to force a sceptical and hostile population (and establishment), on the basis of vague 'inteligence' to intervene militarily in a war in the ME with potentially regional consequences.

Sadly for Cameron, I don't think he will get it pass the Commons. Cameron - YOU ARE NO BLAIR.

[Little John]

Hostility growing in UK to backing the rebels... Boris has now joined the opposition.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... e-won.html

This feels almost Blairesque, a UK PM, obsessed with foreign intervention, trying to force a sceptical and hostile population (and establishment), on the basis of vague 'inteligence' to intervene militarily in a war in the ME with potentially regional consequences.

Sadly for Cameron, I don't think he will get it pass the Commons. Cameron - YOU ARE NO BLAIR.

Agreed

Blair has already shit in that particular nest once already. Neither the people nor the commons will let Cameron take a second one.

Also, I have just read that Boris Johnson article. I hate to say it but I think it's actually rather excellent.

[vtsnowedin]

I'll wager the price of WTI will top $100 buy next fridays close. Nothing like a little dustup in the ME to give prices a boost.

[Little John]

Footsie up by nearly 1% this morning and it's not even lunchtime yet.

Apparently, it's on the back of market expectations of a rapid rise in arms exports.

Which just goes to support the old adage "war is good for business"

Nice.

[Tarrel]

I'll wager the price of WTI will top $100 buy next fridays close. Nothing like a little dustup in the ME to give prices a boost.

Yes. Interesting to see how high the 1 Year Forecast on the ticker has gone.

[Tarrel]

Hostility growing in UK to backing the rebels... Boris has now joined the opposition.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... e-won.html

This feels almost Blairesque, a UK PM, obsessed with foreign intervention, trying to force a sceptical and hostile population (and establishment), on the basis of vague 'inteligence' to intervene militarily in a war in the ME with potentially regional consequences.

Sadly for Cameron, I don't think he will get it pass the Commons. Cameron - YOU ARE NO BLAIR.

Agreed

Blair has already shit in that particular nest once already. Neither the people nor the commons will let Cameron take a second one.

Also, I have just read that Boris Johnson article. I hate to say it but I think it's actually rather excellent.

I'm not sure that Cameron is such a blind follower of US policy as Blair was. Witness his meeting with Putin over the weekend.

[vtsnowedin]

I'm not sure that Cameron is such a blind follower of US policy as Blair was. Witness his meeting with Putin over the weekend.

Well Obama met with Putin today. Without knowing what was said at those meetings I don't see what conclusion you could draw from the mere fact that the meeting was held?