{"id":33393,"date":"2018-04-15T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33393"},"modified":"2018-04-15T08:29:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T13:29:29","slug":"chemical-weapons-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33393","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Weapons Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chemical Weapons Hypocrisy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Oh, the hypocrisy of it. The ignoble aims. The distraction. The outrageous lies and excuses.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking about America\u2019s tweet-from-the-hip president and his desire to escape from the cops\u2019 raid on his lawyer\u2019s office \u2013 there\u2019s a Russian connection, all right.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not talking about his latest sleaze. Life with Melania might not be great at the moment. More distracting to sit with the generals and ex-generals and talk tough about Russia and Syria.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking about Theresa May, who wants to step out of the Brexit ditch with any distractions of her own: Salisbury attacks, Douma\u00a0\u2013\u00a0even Trump. So Trump telephoned Macron, when the poor lady thought she\u2019d won his hand. What is this nonsense?<\/p>\n

Macron has now hitched his own wagon to the Saudis against Iranian \u201cexpansionism\u201d \u2013 and no doubt arms sales to the Kingdom have something to do with it. But how sad that the desire of young French presidents to act like Napoleon (I can think of a few others) means that they devote themselves to joining in a war, rather than pleading against it.<\/p>\n

Now we have our spokespersons and ministers raging about the need to prevent the \u201cnormalisation\u201d of chemical warfare, to prevent it becoming a part of ordinary warfare, a return to the terrible days of the First World War.<\/p>\n

This does not mean any excuses for the Syrian government \u2013 though I suspect, having seen Russia\u2019s Syrian involvement with my own eyes, that Putin might have been getting impatient about ending the war and wanted to eradicate those in the last tunnels of Douma rather than wait through more weeks of fighting. Remember the cruelty of Grozny.<\/p>\n

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Chemical Weapons Hypocrisy Oh, the hypocrisy of it. The ignoble aims. The distraction. The outrageous lies and excuses. I\u2019m not talking about America\u2019s tweet-from-the-hip president and his desire to escape from the cops\u2019 raid on his lawyer\u2019s office \u2013 there\u2019s a Russian connection, all right. And I\u2019m not talking about his latest sleaze. Life with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[93,9822,2928,5493,7844,19772,9222,694,776,10479,2080,827],"class_list":["post-33393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-britain","tag-chemical-warfare","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-douma","tag-robert-fisk","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-theresa-may","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33395,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33393\/revisions\/33395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}