Showing posts with label Coalition of the willing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coalition of the willing. Show all posts

12 September 2015

Finger twiddling all around

GW Bush burbled a lot about "the coalition of the willing" to prosecute what essentially were his private wars. But where are the leaders of that coalition now, at a time when it would worthwhile to actually go to war not necessarily - with - but in Syria? If only to protect the population of that country that is slowly ground to dust between the forces of ISIS, al-Assad and a motley crew of militias.

Clinton showed how this can be done in the Yugoslavia (et al) conflict and the need was not nearly as great as it is now. A lot more people are dying and getting displaced right now. Britain, the US and Australia seem totally content to let Germany absorb the brunt of this exodus w/o so much of batting an eye. And the rest of the Europeans are cowering not daring to say a peep about intervention.