30-08-2013, 06:58 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Max Hastings is a mainstream military historian, and no friend of the left.
He's just called out Cameron in the right-wing Daily Mail, in a piece which includes the following:
Quote: it is naïve to suppose that sarin gas is any worse for its victims than napalm, cluster bombs, Agent Orange defoliant or white phosphorous, widely used by the Western powers in their wars since 1945. All warfare is barbaric and all wars inflict dreadful casualties on civilians. Though President Assad has killed large numbers of non-combatants, so have American drone strikes in Pakistan and the Middle East and so have Syria's insurgents fighting against the regime.
Pretty astonishing truth-telling for MSM.
Agreed! I don't know and don't know if we'll know WHO used the Sarin-like gas. It may have been Assad - or it may have been others. It was horrible....but so is white phosphorus, cluster-bombs, 'depleted' uranium, agent orange and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - not to mention the fire-bombing of many cities - and so many more one could mention that 'we good guys' have done in the past and are doing currently.
I'm sure everyone hear Kerry's speech. Good salesmanship on the surface, but...where's the proofs?!?! [its secret...sorry, you can't see it....]
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