tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post8969694132037606657..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: Endless war...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-45429788807142471362016-03-21T20:05:31.760+00:002016-03-21T20:05:31.760+00:00We need to stop ilegally overthrowing secular regi...We need to stop ilegally overthrowing secular regimes and start doing what Bush should have done the day after 9/11, work with the powers on the ground in an international effort against terrorism. Recognising that the secular dictators are bad but the aftermath of a power vacuum is worse. <br /><br />"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first."<br /><br />And this is down to the illegal war in Iraq and my accusation to Dave is that he has done something just as bad with his "intervention" in Libya. And the shocking criminality that happens in Yemen.<br /><br />I think there are more repressive and intolerant tendencies in Islam than in other religions or among atheists. Other ways of life can do their persecuting, as in India and Burma, but Islam is I believe worse if not kept in check. And that's why western governments need to stop supporting the worst elements and stop attacking secular dictators like Saddam and Basher who are bad but repress people like Islamic State that we now know to be even worse than them.<br /><br />An end to the arming Islamists when they're against secular regimes that are deemed inconvenient by people we shouldn't supporting and an end to the "alliance" with the Gulf States and Turkey. We need to be at peace but keep people at arms' length. I support the peace Obamaa made with the Iranians but they need to stop supporting Hezbollah and the Gulf states need to stop supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and bombing Yemen with what is, staggeringly (can you BELIEVE it), Cameron and Hamond's support.<br /><br />There is also a serious danger that Hillary will get the support of all the neocons and be even worse than the Donald in that department. And I think people should start to look at Gary Johnson. asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.com