Out of Pod Experience

I am genuinely scared about what my government is proposing.

The most frightening thing is that I know that NOTHING I do will change it.

I thought governments were meant to represent the people? Not force them down a route of death and retaliation.

I am ashamed to be English right now.

I'm more worried about not knowing which side used the damn Chemical weapons and the stakes ME oil pipeline investors and Russia have conflicting interests in whats possibly the opening stages of a Sharia/Sunni ethnic war.

We are probably going to war, and I can't think of a favourable outcome that doesn't involve boots on the ground given the guys fighting are rebels and Al-Quaida versus Assad. This is a Stalin vs Hitler war where the West wants to pick "the opposition" where the opposition are not a united front, beneficial to our interests or Humanity or Syria in general.

My money is still on Thursday evening, and that this will be more Iraq part 3 with actual chemical weapons being used instead of strongly suspected.

All eyes on Israel, Lebanon and Turkey to see the next moves, as British assets are being moved forwards towards Cyprus.

Ladies and Gentlemen Britain is gearing up for war.

I wish this wasn't so

So how is the English government representing it's people.

Ed - am going to try and take my own advice and chill out.

I'm just glad I have my Internet Spaceships, not worry about this sort of stuff. So I'll go on with my life

We gave us a moral right and obligation, under the charter of the United Nations of which Britain underwrites by trade, diplomacy and when necessary force of arms.

Whether you agree with it or not, its there on the books as one of the 5 permanent members of the UN Security council, and we have a duty to consider the possibilities to restore law and order should it be necessary. Pretty certain we tried other ways of resolving it over the last 2 years of Civil war before WMD's started turning up being used in the urban centres.

Keep in mind the Anglo perspective on the law, that it is the guide to determine legality through the courts after they are accused of being broken. We see the obligation to uphold, and damn the consequences to defend ourselves in the aftermath.

We are breaking the law if we do act, and if we do not act simultaneously. The reason it is illegal is because China and Russia do not agree to it, but a majority of 3 to 5 agree it is necessary.

Additionally, to reduce it to economics is is to Russias benefit for Syria to be a warzone in the center of the ME as it increases the cost of Hydrocarbons in Europe, expensive through Suez leads to price gouging to keep Gazprom profitably propping up the Rubel and Russian economies.

I do however see the merit to leaving them alone to kill each other off as its none of our direct concern, after all what's a few hundred thousand lives to the moral superiority of the West....

We aren't at war yet, and war is an extension of diplomacy at the end of the day. We prove we are commited to ending this and have the firepower and fortitude to carry it out and more than a few heads will turn inside Syria. This may end up being Cyprus being an unsinkable Battleship sitting off of Syria to open negotiations, a small hope but a good one none theless.

I am genuinely afraid that the US Simpleton in Chief opens his pie hole and get us involved in Syria. The effing simpleton just can not stay away from **** that is not our business.

A very interesting talk it will be, but tomorrow the powerplants will burn coal and gas, the cars, ambulances and the military will use Petrol.

So far we've backed off, and I'm honestly alright with seeing how this plays out internally, were it not for the issue of it being a breeding ground for radicalisation. We have a pool of battle hardened young men being armed, ideologically charged based on ethnic supremacy, denouncing other sects of Islam as not true Muslims and reducing them to animals for slaughter.

Today they are fighting each other in Syria, yesteryear they were in Afghanistan. Hence the issue thats being planned isn't just Syria, its how to put the various sects of Islam in the ME back into a cold war scenario. Saddam kept the peace relative to the Western occupation through fear of the consequences, as did Assad, who is actually the more secular of the factions.

I'm also under the impression that this is Britain and France dragging the US into war, not the other way around...