A cool grey morning but a fast and heated run. One of the
penalties of following the news on a regular basis is the number of times there
is reason to be depressed or angry, and today is angry’s turn.
For several years, despite an otherwise bellicose foreign policy, the UK has been active in supporting a
global ban of cluster bombs. Until, that is, the current government under the
leadership of the Right Honourable David Cameron who, in a characteristically shameful lickspittle u-turn, is now
supporting the inexplicable US bid to allow them, so long as they were
manufactured in the last 30 years (ref). The age of the bombs which indiscriminately
kill & maim civilians on an industrial scale being, apparently, key to
their humanitarian qualities and overall acceptability. Why, Obama, why ?
And that’s not all. Within
2 weeks of Muammar Gaddafi being tortured and executed, that same honourable UK
government is already planning to renew weapon sales to Libya – not so much to
show support for a democratic and peaceful new regime in its precarious and volatile early
stages, but more in the indecent rush to get their money back after the vainglorious and expensive bombing campaign (ref).
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