In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s The World At One on Monday 11 June, Ashdown denounced the West’s warmongering rhetoric regarding Syria and said that the West is making the similar mistakes to those made on the invasion of Iraq.
“This has not been clever diplomacy. In Syria, we have charged out front, all the West, dressed in shining armour, as though the days of Iraq were still there, and demanded regime change”, said Ashdown.
The former Liberal Democrat leader also disapproved Foreign Secretary William Hague’s association between Syria and the Bosnian war that took place in the 1990s. The superior representative to Bosnia four years ago stressed that it would have been possible for Western military intervention at that time, but not now.
The peer also advised the government to settle Syria’s situation in a delicate diplomacy rather than push for regime change.
Furthermore, an article posted by ‘nsnbc’ on June 4, 2012, reported that NATO Special Forces and Special Operations Forces (SAS) are officially operating in Syria alongside agents of Britain’s Foreign Intelligence Service MI6.
The Daily Star reported that these Special Forces are operating in Syria in order to help armed rebels in case a civil war would break out in the country.
Earlier this week, reports also told of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s sinister joke with his fellow Tory MPs saying “Where shall I invade next? I’ve done Libya.”
According to the ‘nsnbc’ report, the Syrian government and Security Forces, along with the people of Syria, have resisted the criminal onslaught, making it increasingly difficult for Britain’s MI6 and NATO forces to destabilize Syria.
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