WMD – not again please!

It is now alleged that the Syrian regime has used, or is using, poison gas (a Weapon of Mass Destruction) in the civil war raging in that unfortunate country. If this new allegation is based on the same level of intelligence gathering methods used for the previous (Iraqi) WMD claims I would not base too much faith in the conclusions!

The last WMD claims led to the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent ongoing catastrophe in that country. The presence of foreign “infidels” on Iraqi soil fanned the flames of anti-Americanism that was already present in that country and the Middle East generally. Syria will end up just the same.

While I believe that Bashar al-Assad is just as bad as his father was, this does not mean that I agree “the West” should interfere in the internal goings on in Syria. We are not (at least I am not) a Syrian or someone of Middle East extraction so I cannot know; I cannot feel; I cannot therefore have the understanding and the empathy for a country or a people that a Syrian would have. Nor, might I add, is the CIA or the American Defence Department Syrian in any shape or form.

When someone (or a country) interferes in the affairs of another the result of such interference can NEVER be foretold. When someone (or a country) interferes in the affairs of another based on faulty intelligence the problem will just be compounded. The American “neo-cons” were convinced that “the Iraqis” would be grateful for the invasion of that country and immediately adopt a “democratic” way of life. How wrong they were!

So now how to judge the accuracy and veracity of the current claims of the deployment of poison gas in Syria? I leave it up to you, dear reader, to make your own determination. But in my book the Syrians are no fools and can find solutions to their own problems – the CIA and other “do gooders” have no right to interfere. They will just make matters worse just as they did in South America; just as they did in Vietnam; just as they did in Iran; just as they did in Iraq; just as they are doing in Afghanistan.

Would the Americans like it if someone (or a country) tried interfere in the internal affairs of the USA. In the 9/11 twin tower attacks they did! And what was the American response? And what are the world-wide consequences of that response?

Is there a greater level of peace than there was before?

For the Love of God leave well alone!