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Tim Black
Syria and the
myths of WMD
The West’s conventional firepower, used against regimes with WMD, is far more destructive than any WMD.
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| Wednesday 1 May 2013 |
Tim Black
The weird obsession with chemical weapons
If Assad really has killed 15 people with sarin, why is that worse than his slaughter of thousands of others with bullets and bombs?
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| Thursday 11 April 2013 |
Karl Sharro
Syria: how to make a bad situation worse
The West’s strategy-free tinkering has opened the door to the very Islamist groups it has been fighting elsewhere.
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| Thursday 6 December 2012 |
Tim Black
Syria: the dangers of global posturing
The announcement that NATO is to station missiles on Turkey’s border confirms the internationalisation of the conflict.
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| Monday 8 October 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
The dangers of sabre-
rattling in Syria
The spread of the Syrian war to Turkey shows how lethal the internationalisation of conflicts can be.
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| Monday 8 October 2012 |
Luke Gittos
Another fine mess NATO has got us into
As the mayhem in Syria shows, NATO does little but destabilise the countries that it threatens to intervene in.
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| Monday 13 August 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Syria: how the West is sanctioning sectarianism
In the name of making a PR performance of their moral resolve, Western governments are meddling in Syria in an ever-more lethal way.
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| Wednesday 11 April 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Why Syrians should
say no to Annan
The UN ‘peace plan’ is about enforcing stability, even if that means keeping Assad in power, not liberating Syrians.
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| Monday 12 March 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Bomb Syria so that I can sleep at night
The most shocking thing about the intervene-in-Syria lobby is not its historical amnesia over Iraq and Afghanistan, but its naked narcissism.
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| Monday 12 March 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
The West is already meddling in Syria
From economic sanctions to weapons inspections, international forces are already there, making things worse.
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| Monday 12 March 2012 |
Tim Black
The Syrian opposition: handpicked by Hillary
Just because Clinton and others have beatified the Syrian National Council, that doesn’t make it legit.
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| Monday 27 February 2012 |
Mick Hume
The danger of reporters becoming ‘crusaders’
The death of courageous war reporter Marie Colvin in Syria was a tragedy – but not a justification for further Western intervention.
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| Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Let’s veto the West’s moral posturing on Syria
There is more logic to Russia’s and China’s veto of the UN resolution condemning Assad than there is to William Hague’s sixth-former antics.
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| Tuesday 3 January 2012 |
Tim Black
The Syrian uprising: it isn’t all about us
The vanity of those calling for the West to intervene is matched only by the navel-gazing of those who claim to be opposed to intervention.
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| Wednesday 16 November 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Putting the Syrian Spring on ice
From EU sanctions to Arab League posturing, external meddling in Syria is weakening the democratic uprising.
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| Monday 26 September 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Kick the UN out of the Middle East
The cynical bid for Palestinian statehood shows how ordinary Palestinians have been made spectators of history.
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| Monday 8 August 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Syria and the hole at the heart of the Arab revolts
Events in Syria suggest that nobody has the authority to resolve the Arab crisis – not the US, not the regimes, and sadly not the rebels either.
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| Wednesday 15 June 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Why so many hacks fell for the ‘gay girl in Syria’
Fake blogger Tom MacMaster is not the only person who has magicked up an identity by morally leeching off other people’s conflicts.
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