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Thread #154894   Message #3649571
Posted By: Jim Carroll
09-Aug-14 - 05:52 AM
Thread Name: BS: Caliphate
Subject: RE: BS: Caliphate
Hypocrisy Keith
Can I remind you that when some of us called for military intervention at the time when the people of Homs were being slaughtered by snipers who were probably trained using British sold ammunition - before the Arab Spring Protests ahd developed into a civil war, you referred to us as "war-mongerers and fascists" and told us the "we couldn't be expected to become involved in every dispute that happened on the planet".
Had the west become involved then none of this need never have happened.
Isis is a direct product of the West's inaction - they were able to step into the gap left and they used arm supplied by the west to fight Assad to do so.
This has enabled them to grow into a significant extremist force threatening numerous states.
At the time, you were the first to defend the sale of arms and equipment to Assad, even extending that support to providing him with equipment to continue his oppression.
You opposed any boycott of sales to Assed, or ven the confiscation by Britain of London property belonging to him and one of his henchmen.   
America's intervention might have been regarded as an attempt to make up for past mistakes, but the rider that it gives itself to protect "American interests" makes it nothing bot an act of cynical opportunism.
Talk about the past coming back to bite your bum - both Americas and yours, that is
Don't suppose you'll respond to any of this with anything more than more denials
Jim Carroll