Dropping bombs on behalf of Al Qaeda
Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Now we have definitely moved from being a post-war world to being a pre-war world. Madness and folly are loose again.
Consider first that early on Friday morning the United States Navy launched 59 cruise missiles on behalf of Al Qaeda. If this is not bad enough for you, note that the President of the United States did not even bother to pretend that he was seeking United Nations cover for what he did.
Note next that in the same week our Prime Minister, Theresa May, made a duty visit to pay homage to the medieval despots of Saudi Arabia, who kindly buy our warplanes and bombs, and are currently using them to savage effect in Yemen. And President Trump was playing host at the White House to the head of Egypt’s military junta, General el-Sisi, whose security forces undoubtedly massacred at least 600 protesters (probably many more) in the streets of Cairo in August 2013.
And then mark that the pretext for this bizarre rocket attack was an unproven claim that President Assad of Syria had used poison gas. Yes, unproven.
