Yes, alas, I can only produce a short, sharp burp or two today because I have an old friend staying and we are all off to a garden party celebration of the 50th wedding anniversary of some mutual friends. However, before I depart for some long cool drinks and a splendid lunch I will leave you with this;
In which 'Dave' attempts a 'Churchill': To be honest I have only read the headline in The Telegraph and heard the gist of his 'call to arms' (what arms?) from Sky News urging us to 'take arms against a sea of Arab troubles'. The cases for and against are made very well in this week's Speccie. Read, inwardly digest, and then make up your own mind:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9287832/defeat-isis-yes-we-can/
Confront ISIS and it will only make them angrier. Sounds eerily similar to the warnings by some regarding the old USSR.
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 17 August 2014 at 15:37
Are you wearing a big frilly hat?
Posted by: Andra | Monday, 18 August 2014 at 03:24
'Dave attempts a Churchill' in his Sunday Telegraph op-ed does he? I won't bother reading it since I know it will be mere PR manure.
Anyway, wasn't it ISIS and their cohorts that Dave and little Billy Vague were all moist for a year ago when they wanted to get us involved in Syria to get rid of that nasty Mr. Assad?
Seriously, how can anyone take anything that Dave says at face value?
Raheem Kassam makes a few pithy comments over at Breitbart, which probably sums up Dave's piece quite well :
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/18/5-reasons-Camerons-op-ed-on-isis-means-nothing
Posted by: Paul Minter | Monday, 18 August 2014 at 09:23
I suspect BOE at least, like me would mostly agree with what this Mr. Marc Lynch has to say.
Yes yes I know it's in the WP but - the paper does print Krauthammer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/08/11/would-arming-syrias-rebels-have-stopped-the-islamic-state/
Posted by: JK | Monday, 18 August 2014 at 14:57