Why is BBC so keen on Syria rebels?
The BBC and the ‘retired’ spooks they love to interview are hugely excited about events in Syria. Why?
Everyone knows that the ‘rebels’ now sweeping across that unhappy country are ferocious Islamist militants
of the kind we generally fear and dislike. Assad’s regime in Damascus is terrible (though the Foreign Office, that nest of cynics, arranged for him to have tea with the late Queen, in December 2002). But do we really want Al Qaeda veterans replacing it?
We do not in fact have any principles about torture chambers and massacres and are friendly towards very nasty regimes in such places as Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
This whole thing reminds me of our crazed enthusiasm to depose Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi, a folly which created endless chaos and began the era of uncontrolled migration across the Mediterranean, which has changed the destiny of Europe for ever. Do these people have any idea what they are doing?
Peter Hitchens.
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