Two Cheers For The Commons

[poliphilo]

I was thinking of writing a piece yesterday about how public opposition never seems to deter our leaders from going to war but I'm glad I didn't because it seems Cameron is now pulling back from his projected Syrian adventure. I guess he'd done the maths and realized he was likely to lose the vote in the Commons.

Our democracy is in a pretty rickety state but it still sometimes comes good. 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a civil war. That means everything is muddled and messy.

I don't think Assad was responsible for the chemical attacks. Why would he do the very thing he's been told would bring the wrath of the Western governments down on his head? Surely he's not such a fool!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Although it seems that the attacks were delivered by missile and the opposition doesn't have much in that way.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

And, Saddam Hussein never REALLY had WMDs, which was clear the moment the U.S. dropped the first bombs on him. If he really had them, he would have used them.

I trust/believe nothing that I am told anymore.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They've forfeited our trust.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

It is sad, because my Dad believed so completely... but by the time I was in high school and faced with Viet Nam, I already had lost my trust. He and I would have these terrible fights about it. Now I realized that he HAD TO believe, or he would never have been able to face the horrorx that he carried inside from WWII.

Now, I have PTSD from just my fears AROUND Viet Nam.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've always been grateful that our government kept us out of Vietnam- unlike succeeding governments which have been only too happy to follow Washington's lead no matter how wicked or stupid.