Call me a cynic,
but I'm not convinced by the US and UK’s intended approach on Syria. Why?
Well not because I think that what the Syrian government and their forces
are doing is worth supporting, however I just don’t believe that US Intelligence
is what it used to be. Having served with
Nato Intelligence myself on operations within the SA Navy in the late ‘80’s, I
am not coming from an entirely naive perspective here. I don’t think that one has to be a rocket
scientist to have some scepticism when it comes to the US Propaganda Machine
and the nonsense it churns out to unsuspecting middle-class America as untampered, legit proof of anything. The Russians are not
convinced, nor are somewhat more astute ordinary Americans and Brits this time
around it seems, judging by recent poles, as to their government’s intent on
going to war against Syria merely based upon the notion that the Syrian
government backed army used chemical
weapons.
I'm not
saying that their information is definitely incorrect either. However evidence seems to be mounting as to a
rebel led tactic of using chemical weapons themselves on innocent people in
order to provoke a seemingly gullible US/UK led attack on the Syrian army. By all
accounts, this tactic seems to be working.
One can reasonably doubt the power of a rebel PR machine so powerful so
as to have even the usually gullible American ‘man in the street’ questioning
their government’s apparent gung-ho stance.
Perhaps the lessons of Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan are
coming home to roost?
Either way,
if I were to be giving any advice to my old Intel colleagues of old, it would
be to make damn sure this time, and to keep emotions and political agendas out
of it completely (if that’s possible).
Otherwise weigh up pretty smartly the consequences of mayhem in the
Middle East (which will undoubtedly flow), not to mention the costly damage to
homes and infrastructure as well as the innocent death toll.
There may
be another agenda at play here, and these two countries don’t have a
particularly great track record at toppling regimes and replacing them with
something much better now do they? For more:
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