Blair Syria Wisdom

Tony Blair's pronouncement,  on behalf of the Gulf-US-UK-Fr interventionist coalition, must make at least a few believers in the notion that you can control the distribution of weaponry sent from the west with good intentions and careful profiling, pause for thought. If Blair truly believes imposing no-fly-zones and arming western approved  fighters - defined as the pluralist and democratic ones - is the correct choice, then clearly we need no further evidence that it would be a cataclysm. The special envoy of the Quartet points out that like in Iraq - staggering how often he willingly brings up Iraq - the majority will no longer tolerate being ruled by the minority. In Syria the conflict perhaps is not as sectarian as Blair would have us believe, given that 70% of the military are Sunni. And whilst he supports the right of a downtrodden majority Sunni population in Syria to rise up and violently oppose their minority oppressors, he will stay silent regarding the minority Sunni oppressors of a Shia majority in Bahrain. In Bahrain where a Saudi military force props up the oppressors. But then, bonus, Saudi Arabia along with Qatar is also bankrolling the Jihadist Wahhabi/Salafist extremists keen on establishing an Islamic caliphate in Syria. Note, this is the group who will not be receiving western arms.  I guess the plan is to leverage their indisputable fighting skills for the time being, avoid overtly supplying them with British, French or US arms, and later, when things have cooled down, we can slaughter them - drones of course - 'no boots on the ground in Syria' as the slogan goes..


In May 2013 over 1,000 people died in Iraq violence. That's another thing.


“There are those within the Syrian Opposition who want a pluralistic society and democracy coming out of all of this — and they are the one group of people who are not being armed.
“You don’t have to send in troops, but the international community should think about installing no-fly zones." Link


CNN Airbrushes Iraq War from Blair's CV
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/17/world/europe/tony-blair-fast-facts

         For Blair 2003 was notable due to "suffering irregular heart rhythms" I am not kidding.