Am I the only one who can’t quite work out what happened last weekend in Syria or what it’s all supposed to mean?
That is, I can’t work out what the US-UK-France Triumvirate (the same Triumvirate that led the intervention against Gaddafi in Libya) was trying to do when it decided to carry out strikes against alleged chemical weapons locations in Syria.
It’s all been a bit confused. Which is one reason I haven’t commented on any of it until now. The other reason is that the night of the military action (Friday 13th) was the day I was burying my grandfather: and so I had no interest in writing anything or keeping track of events at that time.
But it also allowed me to delay or withhold opinion and just keep an unbiased eye on the news for a few days to see how things unfolded.
And I still haven’t entirely made sense of it. (more…)