tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post9221518106025051772..comments2023-08-10T12:55:23.427+01:00Comments on SUBROSA: The Best Laid Plans ...subrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-67129934974018322442013-09-03T00:06:40.062+01:002013-09-03T00:06:40.062+01:00Nor does it stop that stupid woman organising an E...Nor does it stop that stupid woman organising an EU military force Apogee.<br /><br />There's something deeper than that going on with Obama don't you think?subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-89762040488626609742013-09-03T00:04:54.623+01:002013-09-03T00:04:54.623+01:00Ah Joe, but do the supermarkets need a DoT licence...Ah Joe, but do the supermarkets need a DoT licence for it.<br /><br />You've concerned me now though. I have had both in my cleaning cupboard in the past.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-83865528924233868462013-09-03T00:03:44.315+01:002013-09-03T00:03:44.315+01:00Exactly Joe. We should keep well out of it.Exactly Joe. We should keep well out of it.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-28114709067038927382013-09-03T00:02:41.832+01:002013-09-03T00:02:41.832+01:00Thank you JRB and I assure you we're all being...Thank you JRB and I assure you we're all being very positive here. A day like today helps too when the weather is so pleasant.<br /><br />I was foolish too - for a few hours, until I read the papers.<br /><br />Excellent points. As I've said many times, I can never understand why Westminster and the US give such detail of any military intervention. It astounds me how foolish it is.<br /><br />I think, for all Kerry's posturing and verbal propaganda, perhaps they're not so sure the chemical attack was from Assad. Of course we'll never know the truth.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-69513913763734430712013-09-02T23:57:14.887+01:002013-09-02T23:57:14.887+01:00A very interesting view Jim and one that I will po...A very interesting view Jim and one that I will ponder. Thanks.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-63188232595896023832013-09-02T23:55:53.052+01:002013-09-02T23:55:53.052+01:00Well said EP.Well said EP.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-26316255575295148672013-09-02T23:55:10.676+01:002013-09-02T23:55:10.676+01:00Forget the UE directive reference number CR. Obvio...Forget the UE directive reference number CR. Obviously Cameron hasn't.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-5531429630704024612013-09-02T23:16:56.943+01:002013-09-02T23:16:56.943+01:00.......and the EU was formed to prevent war in Eur..........and the EU was formed to prevent war in Europe.<br />But it doesn't seem to have stopped the EU governments from starting or enlarging war all over the world. <br />About a year ago an Islamist official said that the USA was the main terrorist country, just looking back over the last 40 years he does seem to have a point. Obama seemed to lose interest when parliament told Cameron..NO. Why did he need UK so much? Some one else to take the Flack?Apogeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13942349358439102449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-87997102760508954602013-09-02T19:43:32.105+01:002013-09-02T19:43:32.105+01:00"Let's not forget Vince Cable's depar..."Let's not forget Vince Cable's department has been found to have permitted companies to sell chemicals, capable of being used to produce nerve gas, to Syria."<br /><br />Lets not forget Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda etc would also be guilty.<br /><br />Mix Harpic with Domestos & you get that WW1 poison gas!<br /><br /><br />http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/resources/chemistry-in-your-cupboard/harpic/5Joe Publichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829909061904690380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-85981413504410208652013-09-02T17:45:24.962+01:002013-09-02T17:45:24.962+01:00After the "peace" that western intervent...After the "peace" that western intervention has bestowed on Iraq and Afghanistan, one realises our leaders repeatedly fail to learn from the history they created.<br /><br />Sunnis and Shiites rarely live together in enduring peace, so why use our troops as Piggy-in-the-Middle, targets for all factions?<br /><br />Syria isn't a 'democratic' civil war, it's a religious civil war, about which UK, US or UN troops can do sweet FA.Joe Publichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829909061904690380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-38409985251096544252013-09-02T13:51:30.674+01:002013-09-02T13:51:30.674+01:00[cont.]
Call me an old cynic but …
Having spent ...[cont.]<br /><br />Call me an old cynic but …<br /><br />Having spent the morning reading the papers and watching the news channels, in which Cameron, Osborne <i>et al</i> confirm there will be no further vote on the mater, I am left more than a little curious.<br /><br />Cameron and his cabinet were humiliated last week, they were left looking inept and ineffective’ so why are they so ready to lie down and accept the universal derision that will fall upon them?<br />And why is Obama seemingly willing to take a similar risk?<br /><br />I cannot help but feel that behind all this lies some hidden agenda.<br /><br />… but then I am an old cynic.JRBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01864418763227369458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-24059629387698507932013-09-02T11:20:05.320+01:002013-09-02T11:20:05.320+01:00Subrosa
Firstly, welcome back to the blogosphere,...Subrosa<br /><br />Firstly, welcome back to the blogosphere, your short ‘rest’ was missed by many.<br />Like you, my summer sojourn lasted, pleasantly, longer than I had expected, but now it’s <i>back to auld claes and purrich.</i><br /><br />On news of your friend, all that I can offer is that everyone should remain positive. The power if positive thinking can work wonders.<br /><br /><br />On the topic of the day –<br />How foolish I was to think that when the parliamentary vote came through the other evening, defeating Cameron’s proposals, that that would be an end to it all.<br /><br />Now, as <b>CR</b> rightly says MPs are being urged to vote again till the ‘hawks’ win the day.<br /><br />However the stance adopted by the US and its supporters in Westminster raises a number of unanswered questions.<br /><br />- Claims have been made that gas attacks have occurred on several previous occasions, so why the righteous indignation now?<br />- Is this ‘moral’ stance merely to protect Obama’s inappropriate choice of phrase when he talked of ‘red lines not being crossed’?<br />- If the US has ‘intelligence’ of a war crime(s) committed. Why has this not been previously revealed to the UN, International Court of Justice or to her allies like the UK. Why is it only sharing it now, solely with the purpose of achieving its military objective? <br />- And on a military basis. Why intimate what you are going to do? Assad will have by now moved all chemical and WMDs to a safe and secure location. So any military strike will achieve nothing, it will be merely a brutal vindictive exercise to save face for a few western politicians.<br /><br />Where is there evidence of the hand of a civilised democracy in any of this affair?JRBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01864418763227369458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-38862992993271828682013-09-02T10:55:47.381+01:002013-09-02T10:55:47.381+01:00What we need is a small western country to take ov...What we need is a small western country to take over the administration of all these countries. These administrators would do deals with the local factions, trading one off against the other. In the meantime they would form a locally-recruited civil service shaped in their image.<br />A small military presence would be required on the ground but it would recruit from the local factions, forming a disciplined army in the image of the organisers.<br />It would help if the nominal leader of this western nation could be feudal in origin, rather than 'elected' by a political process as the feudal process intrinsically appeals to societies which often have their roots in tribalism rather than nationhood.<br />It certainly seems a more natural approach than that of the Marxist one of smashing up and overturning everything that works with the hope(?) that a better new order will form from the debris.JimShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09295953179246578687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-55280579098599281252013-09-02T10:13:15.529+01:002013-09-02T10:13:15.529+01:00I would like to see action against Assad, but I fe...I would like to see action against Assad, but I fear that if he is deposed, the situation will get worse with Al-Quaeda taking over. In any case, I can't see what good will be done by firing a hundred or so missiles at Syria, they will just cause more deaths and even release more poison gas from the arms dumps.<br />There is also the risk of revenge, how difficult would it be for a Syrian suicide terrorist to get into this country and release some Sarin on, say, the underground?<br /><br />MPs should only vote again when the government has addressed these issues and has a real plan of action, both for the short and longer term, not just ideas like "we've got to do something".<br />English Pensionerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15271488641341955140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-15485394372873132602013-09-02T09:32:21.349+01:002013-09-02T09:32:21.349+01:00So, you didn't get the memo then?
Welcome to ...So, you didn't get the memo then?<br /><br />Welcome to New Democracy for the 21st century: if at first the vote goes the wrong way, vote, and vote again until you get what you want.<br /><br />Bombing Brown Blokes Brings Big Business.<br /><br />CR.Captain Rantyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07839241144954596066noreply@blogger.com