The moral ambivalence is quite striking but then such things rarely bother politicians. One exception is Jeremy Corbyn who after the slick presentation of David Cameron (much in the mould of that other salesman Tony Blair), stood up and urged caution.
One of the crucial selling points of Cameron's sales pitch was that there were 60.000 anti ISIS fighters in the region waiting for us to bomb the ISIS stronghold who would then rise up and "boots on the ground" finish the job. It wasn't long ago that we were told that after spending a fortune arming the anti ISIS insurgents we had managed to recruit only a handful and the bulk of the arms we had sent to Syria had fallen into the hands of ISIS. But this time we have it on behalf of the "security agency" that 60.000 are on hand in waiting.
Who remembers Tony Blair and his dodgy dossier purporting to come from the same intelligence source of weapons of mass destruction, weapons which have still to be located.
Watching Cameron it took one back to that slick presentation from an equally slick operator but listening to Cameron the only real claim is that we should go in because everyone else is and if we don't we will loose face.
Only Corbyn called his bluff whilst all around him on his own benches they looked glumly on. They, the Blairite's and the Brownites had only conceded to allow Corbyn onto the ticket for the leadership contest as a sop to the left of the party. The fact that with the 'rank and file' vote, he trounced them all, he humiliated them in one ballot with over 50% of the vote and they will not forgive him.
The Middle England socialist who gained their spurs not in the miners strike but in the reading room at Cambridge are out for revenge.
Corbyn has the moral courage to call it as he sees it. Only he seems to speak for the rank and file of Party supporters, the rest the White faced assassins are, as I write, plotting to vote him out and re establish the cabal !!!
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