Jim Carroll - 05 Jul 17 - 08:19 PM

Usual warped, biased, Anglophobic bullshit Jom.

1: "Child Brides" are the products of backward cultures - many of which have been kept backward by the West propping up their leaders with weapons and political support because we need their oil and need to keep them in 'safe hands

Yes they are the products of backward cultures and idiotic religious mumbo-jumbo either twisted, deliberately misinterpreted, or invented by the adherents to those religions in order to enslave and dominate the female sex. So all countries that have oil are backward cultures Jom, or is it the other way round? European interests on the Indian subcontinent [British, French, Portuguese and Dutch] brought about every advancement it has known and actually formed the state now known as India [The largest free democracy in the world] What influence had Europe in China in the twentieth century? I would suggest very little and that country does not export oil.

Various leaders, regimes and governments are propped up for a whole variety of reasons by the governments of a whole variety of other countries all looking after their own self interests - that is a political and economic reality in life and it has always been the case. Britain is no particular exception.

2: "The concern for progress in these countries was epitomised by Britain when it responded to The Arab Spring by opening a massive arms fair to sell weapons to despots"

I think that you will find Jom that that "massive arms fair" was planned and organised at least a year BEFORE the start of "The Arab Spring" so it could hardly have been opened in response to it. We only sell weapons to despots do we Jom? what about Russia, who sell far, far more than Great Britain has done - who do they sell theirs to - "freedom fighters"? Enlightened humanitarian leaders like Assad?