Sunday, 3 March 2013

What to do with Assad

So Britain has been accused of bullying and being naive in dealing with the 'issues' in Syria.

An uprising which was buoyed up by the Arab Spring that failed to oust its benign dictator and has now turned into a civil war killing in excess of 70,000 of its own people.

There is no world police or international law to deal with such countries and so the politicians dabble. UK / USA for intervention and Russia / China against. And so nothing is done and people die.

And nobody understands the situation, atrocities are committed by both sides so taking sides is fraught with problems. So we send in a peace keeping force (because that worked in Yugoslavia) or the worst option we do nothing. Like Rwanda. Like Cambodia. Like Zimbabwe.

So Assad, once the regions golden boy and educated in blighty sits overlooking a civil war wondering where it all went wrong and hoping that there isn't a Gaddafi type ending for him.

Or perhaps we will do what the west usually does. We will arm them. In untraceable deals for Agricultural equipment. We will sell them the means to their own resolution or destruction.

And some people will make alot of money and alot of people will needlessly be murdered.

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