Having secured parliamentary permission for an air war in Syria, British Prime Minister wasted no time deploying warplanes, and within hours the first British bombs were falling on Raqqa. Cameron downplayed the chances of making gains soon, urging patience for a long, “complex” war.
Cameron got the air war he wanted, but he seems to be one of very few people happy about it, with both the Syrian government and anti-ISIS rebels, the same rebels Cameron was predicting would support him in ridiculously large numbers, were loudly criticizing the new strikes.
The Assad government’s complaint was the same as it is with the US and the rest of its coalition, that they are conducting airstrikes on Syrian territory without permission from the Syrian government and without any attempt to coordinate with them.
The rebels, by contrast, are complaining about it on humanitarian grounds, noting everyone else was already bombing Raqqa and not accomplishing anything by doing so, and warning they were just putting the city’s civilian population in even further peril.
not to worry, mr. assad! obama's got yer back! go ahead and shoot down
a british jet illegally entering syran airspace, as all nations have the right
to defend their territory. mr. obama said so. no, wait….don't….he didn't
mean….
One thing we can count on, the English botching it all up, as they traditionally do with everything in which they get involved.
Since the war on ISIS is unwinnable, that hardly matters. On the other hand, the traditional Russian capacity for botching everything up is bringing Putin down, first in Ukraine, then in Syria and now with Turkey.
Off topic, except in your own mind of course. As per.
British bombers, American bombers, Russian bombers…a horrible accident waiting to happen
And the fall out from all those bombs will certainly cause "climate change,"
which will lead to "global warming."
Democracy in action. What's not to love.
Good point. How environmentally friendly are warplanes, aircraft carriers, missiles? How are their emissions?
Mossad's MO is "by deception shall we wage war" Putin should take a leaf and bomb them and blame Turkey or Israel
Syria has a right to defend itself….wait, those rhetorics are reserved for Israel only.
So has Ukraine.
You're right: the Eastern Ukrainians do have a right to defends themselves from those who orchestrated the coup.
…and don't forget Turkey!!
The Syrian Government has a point, the rebel's do not.
Whoa Nelly! We were told yesterday that there were no rebels. Of course, that was when Cameron was claiming he had their support. Now, conveniently, a group I've never heard of suddenly pops up and criticises Cameron in the columns of a paper that yesterday ridiculed his claim that such rebels existed.
In all this bombing by damn near everyone, does anyone remember the refugee crisis in Europe? Oh, old news, eh? And now that the Europeans have started closing their borders to Syrians on the run, they've directed their media pets to find something else to report on since, well, it's not very humanitarian to close your borders to a "humanitarian" crisis and makes for really bad press.
Well, Assad, you have a right to shoot them down. Turkey did it.