- Apr 5, 2014
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Naturally I wish them safe. And I'm not going to be sorry to hear the termination of the life of merciless killers.
I am not apologising for opposing this action though. Even if I am falsely branded a 'terrorist sympathiser' by our elected leader.
This action, I believe, is the start of a mission creep. One that is less defined by a humanitarian agenda, and more by a political one.
Ultimately thousands of innocent lives will be lost, and the straight lines, drawn with the skills of a Victorian cartographer on those proud pink maps of Africa, will be drawn again. To the winners the spoils.
ISIS are evil, they oppress the many. And a few of those governments involved in this action know all about that.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the world many people suffer in places that foreign policy doesn't reach- because their suffering is relevant only when it is proportional to another's national interest.
When are we bombing Burma ? We won't be, relieving the suffering those tortured souls is of no interest- because there isn't any profit in such interest
I am not apologising for opposing this action though. Even if I am falsely branded a 'terrorist sympathiser' by our elected leader.
This action, I believe, is the start of a mission creep. One that is less defined by a humanitarian agenda, and more by a political one.
Ultimately thousands of innocent lives will be lost, and the straight lines, drawn with the skills of a Victorian cartographer on those proud pink maps of Africa, will be drawn again. To the winners the spoils.
ISIS are evil, they oppress the many. And a few of those governments involved in this action know all about that.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the world many people suffer in places that foreign policy doesn't reach- because their suffering is relevant only when it is proportional to another's national interest.
When are we bombing Burma ? We won't be, relieving the suffering those tortured souls is of no interest- because there isn't any profit in such interest