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And I wonder how our British politicians will respond.
Elmhurst (Aylesbury Vale) result:
LDEM: 63.5% (+37.9)
LAB: 12.2% (-10.0)
CON: 11.9% (-9.3)
UKIP: 9.0% (-14.4)
GRN: 3.5% (-4.2)
6th April 2017- US launches missile strikes on Syria
What plan ?
The only realistic plan for Syria is a militarily enforced 'safe zone'. Which might have worked four or five years ago.
That decision came back and bit us just a few years later. Would the world be a more stable place now if we'd withdrawn all support for, or even punished, Hussein after the Halabja attack in 1988?
In 2013 we stood back as Assad used chemical weapons against civilians. Since then, the situation in Syria and the region has worsened massively. There was a narrow window of opportunity that has now evaporated.
A decision not to act is as much a decision as a decision to act. Those who argued against the strikes against Assad in 2013 need to defend that decision in the light of everything that has occurred since.
An Aylesbury Duck ....
Quack Quack ....
The JackW Committee for Public Morality in Broadcasting raised an eyebrow when it noted one of the thread leaders yesterday was on Political Betting and vice.
We can but recall those salad days of PB when it was in black and white and when OGH visiting London didn't involve having tea and honey(traps) with the Russian embassy.
North Korea must be a bit more worried this morning.
I think Trump wants to send a clear message to rogue states and leaders: I am not Obama.
B...) Trump has changed his mind overnight on Assad. Maybe he's made the right decision this time... I've no idea. But this clearly isn't part of a planned strategy.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/08/mps-who-voted-against-syria-motion-full-list
A No 10 spokeswoman said: "We believe [it] was an appropriate response to the barbaric chemical weapons attack launched by the Syrian regime, and is intended to deter further attacks."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39524685?ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=twitter
Plus a LibDem hold and Con hold.
LibDems achieve greatest percentage vote rise in all four contests.
Walcot (Bath & North East Somerset) result:
LDEM: 48.6% (+11.2)
GRN: 22.2% (+0.4)
CON: 22.0% (-0.5)
LAB: 7.2% (-7.4)
Liberal Democrat HOLD Walcot (Bath & North East Somerset).
Elmhurst (Aylesbury Vale) result:
LDEM: 63.5% (+37.9)
LAB: 12.2% (-10.0)
CON: 11.9% (-9.3)
UKIP: 9.0% (-14.4)
GRN: 3.5% (-4.2)
Liberal Democrat GAIN Elmhurst (Aylesbury Vale) from UKIP.
Hipperholme & Lightcliffe (Calderdale) result:
CON: 60.3% (-4.3)
LDEM: 17.1% (+6.8)
LAB: 16.5% (-0.5)
GRN: 6.1% (-2.0)
Conservative HOLD Hipperholme & Lightcliffe (Calderdale).
St James (Tendring) result:
CON: 47.9% (+12.7)
UKIP: 22.5% (-16.3)
LAB: 15.0% (-1.0)
LDEM: 12.8% (+12.8)
GRN: 1.9% (+1.9)
Conservative GAIN St James (Tendring) from UKIP.
For a while in the late Obama period they were looking pretty isolated in that as the US seemed to be willing to deal with Assad. I think that there was apprehension that we may be even more out of line with Trump's more isolationist approach but he seems to have come around to a position much more compatible with that of the UK fairly quickly. I think the UK will be pleased and not a little relieved at this.
What the US has done, again, is demonstrate the irrelevance and impotence of the United Nations. Rather than wait for any resolutions, vetoed or not, they have simply acted. I think we have to assume that the UN will play almost no role at all in Trump's actions going forward and not just in Syria.
Edit. See at 5.21 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-39521332
A targeted response to deter further chemical attacks is a good thing, in my view.
But I'd rather have it than not.
The UN has no magical power or ability to make Russia and US agree on Syria.
I think a better judge of UN is conflicts where the great powers aren't all that interested. Their record there isn't great either mind...
Trump has sent a clear message, the use of banned chemical weapons will not be tolerated.
It will be interesting to see how the UK media responds to this and whether those that last week were condemning the Syrian President for using Nerve Agent Sarin against civilians, can bring themselves to praise a US president for his actions today.
(*) I have praised his talk about infrastructure, and what's come out about his plans seems interesting.
My sense is we would need Russia to actually do something bad themselves rather than just support Assad... But it could definitely happen.
Would be fun to be inside that Social media bubble right now.
Trump's first major act of any consequence. Troubling, but doing nothing was troubling as well. In a nutshell this sums up the Syria nightmare, and, indeed, many international situations.
However they will see it as more bombs required so good for business regardless of who pays the price.
There are Russians at the base and we took extraordinary precautions to not target the area where the Russians are.
This will raise many questions, says Guardian US national security editor Spencer Ackerman:
The Russians are sure to have routed that warning to Assad, raising immediate questions about what the strike will have accomplished.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/apr/07/us-syria-response-donald-trump-assad-pentagon-live?CMP=twt_gu
Still got the weird bullet point issue.
Also, mildly amused Trump's tougher at enforcing Obama's red lines than Obama was. On a more serious note, I wonder if Assad will stop using chemical weapons (it was a few years between the most recent attack and the previous one) or try using them again to be defiant.
F1: Malaysia's race this year will be the last. Whilst not a classic, it is one of the better modern circuits, and memories of the 2009 monsoon mean the bookies usually overestimate the chances of a safety car appearance (after Hungary, it's the track least likely to see one).
"If this fog doesn't lift at all through the weekend we could end up with the very bizarre situation of no qualifying and even no race. Unprecedented."
I would guess it'll be simply cancelled. The calendar's pretty packed nowadays.
There is a four week gap around July/August but that's entirely deliberate to give teams some time off. Otherwise, slotting China back in would likely mean three consecutive weeks of races.
So, I think it might just be cancelled.
That would be awesome.
Which reminds me of - http://westwing.wikia.com/wiki/A_Proportional_Response - bombing Syria for misbehaving, no less.
* In the sense that when he does something sensible, his moronic oafishness casts a shadow over his actions.
Tim Farron backs Trump and seems to suggest UK should consider "surgical strikes". Who'd have thought . Wonder what Ed Miliband think
Take a look at yourself , UK supplying bombs and missiles that are murdering thousands of women and children in Yemen , we helped US wreck Iraq , Libya , Afghanistan etc
UK and US fund undesirable people that make Assad look like a pussy cat. Get a grip and drop the holier than thou , I did not hear any outrage on here last week when US bombed and killed hundreds of civilians , that was just a small error.
Tim Farron backs Trump and seems to suggest UK should consider "surgical strikes". Who'd have thought . Wonder what Ed Miliband think
Apperently the air base that Trump attacked was shared by the Russians.
What a puffed up, jumped up, fool of a man he is...