Prime Minister Theresa May called an emergency meeting of her
Cabinet for Thursday afternoon to discuss Syria. (AFP)
Prime Minister Theresa May moved ever closer on Wednesday to committing Britain to military action against Syria, saying “all the indications” are that President Bashar Assad’s forces were behind a chemical weapons attack in Douma.
May called an emergency meeting of her Cabinet for Thursday afternoon to discuss Syria, and The Telegraph newspaper reported that the prime minister has already ordered British submarines to move within missile range of the country.
The US, France and Britain have been consulting about launching a military strike within days, and President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that missiles “will be coming” (Link)
May said earlier on Wednesday that the government was still assessing who was responsible for the attack on Douma. Britain has been working with its allies to determine what happened, and “we are rapidly reaching that understanding,” she said during a visit to the English city of Birmingham.
“All the indications are that the Syrian regime was responsible,” May said. “And we will be working with our closest allies on how we can ensure that those who are responsible are held to account and how we can prevent and deter the humanitarian catastrophe that comes from the use of chemical weapons in the future.”
It scares the hell out of me, but what you gonna do? Let this monster do to his people what Hitler did to the Jews? None of the townspeople said a word as wagons moved through the streets with bodies and the smoke filled the air.
There's really not much that can be done now. Assad (Syria's tyrannical dictator) has become too firmly entrenched.
There was a point in the Civil War where the rebels were making progress, and it even looked like they would overthrow Assad. But then the Russians (and later the Iranians) stepped in and then there was no doubt that he'd remain in power.
The current idea making a strike against him that theU.S. and our allies are discussing isn't about trying to oust him from power because that's no longer possible. Rather the is to tend him a warning not to use chemical weapons again. But even that probably won't succeed now that he has Russian (and Iranian) troops in Syria to protect him.
May said earlier on Wednesday that the government was still assessing who was responsible for the attack on Douma. Britain has been working with its allies to determine what happened, and “we are rapidly reaching that understanding,” she said during a visit to the English city of Birmingham.
“All the indications are that the Syrian regime was responsible,” May said. “And we will be working with our closest allies on how we can ensure that those who are responsible are held to account and how we can prevent and deter the humanitarian catastrophe that comes from the use of chemical weapons in the future.”
In 2013, Parliament defeated a call by then-Prime Minister David Cameron for air strikes in response to an earlier chemical attack in Syria.
Some lawmakers have expressed reservations about taking military action now, but others have come to believe the 2013 vote was a mistake.
Labour legislator Emma Reynolds, whose party helped defeat Cameron’s planned 2013 strike, said failing to act then had set a “dangerous precedent.”
It scares the hell out of me, but what you gonna do? Let this monster do to his people what Hitler did to the Jews? None of the townspeople said a word as wagons moved through the streets with bodies and the smoke filled the air.
There's really not much that can be done now. Assad (Syria's tyrannical dictator) has become too firmly entrenched.
There was a point in the Civil War where the rebels were making progress, and it even looked like they would overthrow Assad. But then the Russians (and later the Iranians) stepped in and then there was no doubt that he'd remain in power.
The current idea making a strike against him that theU.S. and our allies are discussing isn't about trying to oust him from power because that's no longer possible. Rather the is to tend him a warning not to use chemical weapons again. But even that probably won't succeed now that he has Russian (and Iranian) troops in Syria to protect him.