RNA - Tell that to British Prime Minister Theresa May. She still believes her country has never made a mistake in Syria or in the region; at least, never one that she couldn't explain away. She refuses to yield when she knows her government’s course to collude with terrorists is wrong. She refuses to own her mistakes, let alone end the unnecessary war on Syria and repair the devil.
Instead, PM May wasted no time after Saturday’s London Bridge attack in announcing that she will be pushing some irrelevant international agreements aimed at global regulation of speech on the Internet, claiming that extremists have been using “safe spaces online” in their terror attacks.
While this is being couched today as a reaction to the London terror attack, the reality is that a permanent war on Islam in general and on Syria in particular is a long-standing goal of the British government, with the current manifesto vowing efforts to arm regional client states like Saudi Arabia, contain Iran, and maintain the status quo.
This goes well beyond just colonialism and state-sponsored terrorism:
1- Both the United States and Britain have been killing a lot of civilians in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya for quite some time now, yet these crimes against humanity are rarely admitted by the coalition of regime changers and there is almost no interest from the United Nations or “fakestream” media to investigate. The criminal hordes simply claim “the killing of innocent people is unavoidable in some circumstances.”
2- If Western governments do not change course, more terrorism will occur. They need to change the policy and stop the evils of terrorism in Syria to feel safe at home. The British government is funding, arming and aiding terrorism of one kind or another and experiencing the phenomenon of blowback in places like Manchester and London.
3- The anti-terrorist coalition of Iran, Syria, Russia and Hezbollah have proved that it is possible to beat Salafist-Wahhabi terrorism. Syria is not fully free yet, but the anti-terrorist coalition is objectively winning the war on many fronts and as per International Law. They are also working from the ground up, rather than top-down politics, for a political solution to the Syrian crisis. Western governments likewise should not pursue policies which put their citizens in danger whether it be arming terrorists or wasting domestic resources fighting “hate speech” online, when these resources should be used to fight terrorism and those that fund ISIL and Al-Qaeda.
4- British foreign policy must change. Foreign policy does prevent terrorism and inversely it can also cause it. The recent attacks in Manchester and London were conducted by British citizens who were members of Al-Qaeda and ISIL in Libya and Syria - initially funded by the West and regional associates in order to overthrow the governments in Tripoli and Damascus.
5- “Fakestream” media blames everything from Iran to Russia and even North Korea for the woes of the West. Others yet blame the religion of Islam, even though it is Muslims who are the first and most numerous victims of the US-led regime-change wars. The enemy is Salafism and Wahhabism which is born, funded and disseminated by Saudi Arabia. The marriage between Western corporate, arms manufacturers, political leaders and the House of Saud has to end before anything else.
6- A secret memo written by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in August 2014 (which appeared on the WikiLeaks website in 2016) noted that the Saudi and Qatari governments “are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region”. As maintained by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the West cannot fight terrorism anywhere if it funds terrorism and supports its associates almost everywhere, even at the United Nations. Under International Law, Western countries should join Syria’s real anti-terrorist coalition with Iran, Russia and Hezbollah, which is the only place that any responsible nation ought to be if it is going to militarily engage terrorism at all.
Russia likewise has called on Western countries to form a real partnership against terrorism. All of this has fallen on deaf ears in Washington and London. At any rate, PM May has two options in respect of terrorism, either get out of the Middle East at any level other than that of non-military business deals or else join a meaningful international coalition against terrorism. She and other Western leaders need to swallow their pride and stand on the right side of history.
In summary, the condemnable London attacks is a case of blowback on British citizens arising from the overt and covert actions of British governments in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. A combination of Anglo-American policies and actions, in partnership with regional despots and terror proxies, has had the effect of increasing terror attacks in the West. Based on the evidence, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that without these actions those behind the Manchester and London attacks might well not have had the opportunity to use “safe spaces online” and become radicalized in the way they did.
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