Mission Creep Drags Britain Into Quagmire of Global Conflict
waiting for the first diplomatic row to explode into something
considerably worse than fighting various hydra-like bandits in Syria.
Countries are being slowly dragged into the continuing violence with
ever greater weapons and destructive capabilities and vociferous verbal
dogfights ever more frequent.
With Russia, Iran and China on one side and the US, France, Australia
and Britain plus the GCC countries, Turkey and Jordan on the other and
Iraq and Syria in the middle, a lot is a stake in the world’s tinderbox.
US president Obama promised no less than 15 times to the world that American troops would not be deployed to Syria. With intensifying U.S. military operations in both Iraq and Syria, dozens of bipartisan US lawmakers
issued an open letter on Friday calling for Congress to fulfill its
responsibility by voting “as quickly as possible” on whether to
authorize a war that is well over a year old. In the meantime, Obama has
just authorised
the deployment of special forces troops to Syria as it intensifies
airstrikes which has coincided with Washington’s shift in approach to
the conflict. As Russia intensifies its efforts, Washington is spurred to take more effective action.
There is serious political unrest at the parliamentary level in
Britain. Parliament unequivocally voted for no military action in Syria
in 2013 yet PM David Cameron simply lied by omission and sent fighter
jets in defiance.
