Two top retired generals and the chairman of parliament’s intelligence and security committee are calling for collaboration with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria in order to defeat Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL.
But HM Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs refuses even to pick up the phone.
Former army chief and committed Christian Lord Dannatt, General Sir Richard Shirreff and Sir Malcolm Rifkind have all called on Philip Hammond to work with President Assad.
Lord Dannatt told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme: “I think whether it’s above the counter or below the counter, a conversation has got to be held with him. Because if there’s going to be any question of air strikes over Syrian air space, it’s got to be with the Assad regime’s approval.”
Sir Malcolm, the chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, and a former foreign secretary and defence secretary, said that the US and its allies must be prepared to work with the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad to have any hope of defeating Isis. He said history had shown that “sometimes you actually have to make an arrangement with some nasty people in order to get rid of some even nastier ones”. Sir Malcolm also called for Saudi Arabia and Qatar to stop “the private funding and help that has been given to jihadi extremists by supporters in their countries for several years”.
But Philip Hammond rejected the calls, saying: “We may very well find that we are aligned against a common enemy but it would poison what we’re trying to achieve in separating moderate Sunni opinion from the poisonous ideology of Isil if we were to align ourselves with Assad.”
Today, General Sir Richard Shirreff spoke of the inevitability of talks with the Syrian president.
“There can be no eradication of Islamic State as a threat without a regional approach,” he said. “Islamic State is operating and has spread into Syria and therefore, there is likely to be – or inevitably going to be – a need to sit down and talk to difficult bedfellows.”
Christian Voice believes that Mr Hammond, like his predecessor, over-estimates his ability to turn the Syrian rebels into some sort of democratic body respecting the human rights of minorities such as the Christians and Alawites of Syria.
The Syrian regime was destabilised at the bidding of fanatical pro-democracy agitators like George Soros. Soros funded Syrian activists directly and through his links to avaaz.org. (See March 2011 in the link) (More on Avaaz here). It was only by the grace of God that a government motion to take military action against the Syrian Government was defeated in the UK House of Commons on 30th August 2013. But US intervention and UK and European logistical support inevitably fueled the rise of ISIS. Weaponry delivered to the rebels has inevitably found its way into the hands of Al-Qaeda and now ISIS.
There are recent reports that France has been supplying the non-ISIS rebels. Even while ISIS was getting going, America sent arms to Syrian rebels in April 2014. The US supplied TOW missile systems which are now in Syrian rebel hands. There are reports that the US trained Islamic militants at a base in Jordan: This is from WorldNetDaily and is too heavily laden with reasoned comment and good links to be dismissed. Another article from WorldNet Daily exposes the Soros links and shows that back in February this year, the US and UK were not even bothered about ISIS as they gaily pressed ahead arming the Syrian rebels and plotting President Assad’s downfall. The US was warned a year ago about ISIS, and ignored the warnings. Now it is the world’s best-funded terrorist group.
We have held a consistent view that only President Assad stood between Christians in Syria and a blood-bath, that the UK Government was wrong to support the Islamic militants trying to oust him. Our Government are responsible for a colossal loss of life and property, in fact for what Sir Malcolm calls the ‘destruction’ of Syria. They now have a face-saving opportunity to switch sides.
SEE:
10th March 2014: Kidnappers Free Syrian Nuns
16th February 2014: Senator McCain Defends Syrian Rebels in Unprecedented Temper Tantrum
16th February 2014: Syrian Rebels Kidnap Nuns and Orphans
13th September 2013: CIA-armed Syrian rebels attack Christian town
11th September 2013: Interview with Samuel Noble on Syria, Assad, and the US
9th September 2013: Why Obama Needs a War with Syria
6th September 2013: Vladimir Putin Warns America Not to Attack Syria
30th August 2013: Syria: How your MP voted
20th June 2013: How the West is Helping to Destroy Christianity in Syria
18th June 2013: Middle East state arms Syrian Islamists
10th August 2013: £32.5m for the anti-Christian Syrian rebels
27th July 2013: Syria – Thank God for the Russians
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It has become very clear that our government has lost all sense of shame and Christian integrity it has been said that we are ruled by idiots, everytime they get involved in foreign affairs things only get worse and we the British public suffer at their stupidity. does this nation deserve such leaders who approve every evil rather than stand for the truth on which this nation was founded, dare I say the Bible and Christian standards. It is not too late for these intellectual misfits to repent and acknowledge their lack of faith and seek the only advocate able to deal with world affairs Jesus Christ Who will judge their rebelliousness soon, and the sooner the better.
Which nation was founded on the Bible and Christian standards, and when ?
The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were not Christian originally.
The union of England and Scotland under James I was purely an accident, and the union of parliaments was for various reasons a convenience. So was the inclusion of Ireland to form a nation under the Union Jack as we know it, and so was the exclusion of most of Ireland (although Christian) to found the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, our current nation. None of these events was particularly a founding on the Bible and on Christian standards. This would apply more to the American colonies, which perhaps explains the predominance of Christianity there today compared to this or to other countries,
If Scotland leaves the Union, we shall be in yet another nation, and it is very obvious that it will not have been founded on Christian principles, but on the whim of a few million people no longer part of it. I wonder what it will be called !
That’s just ignorance, Rox, if I may say so. Since the sixth century kings were being converted to Christianity in these islands.
King Alfred the Great had translated the Pentateuch, Psalms and Gospels into the English of his day and based all his ‘dooms’ on the laws of God given to Moses.
The Coronation Service is steeped in Christian symbolism and teaching and commands the monarch to ‘maintain the laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel’. It has been used since 973 AD when Edgar was crowned king of all England at Bath.
Look at any of our laws before the 1950s and you will see our Christian heritage informing almost every one.
Well, I did know all that, actually, but the kingdoms had already been founded long before their kings were converted to Christianity. King Alfred was already king of Wessex when he introduced his new laws. The coronation service, and all of this, was already in existence when the new kingdom of Great Britain was founded by accident of birth and non-birth. It was in this already existing nation (not too dissimilar from what we still have) that the Authorised Version of the Bible was produced.
You could say that the modern age was founded on atheist ethical standards and the works of Richard Dawkins, but that is not true either .
Of course the modern age is founded on atheistic principles! Nothing else can explain the Abortion Act, the Sexual Offences Act, liberalisation of the law on divorce, in complete opposition to the teachings of the Lord Jesus, legalisation of pornography, and a host of other measures set out in our publication ‘Britain in Sin’.
I totally agree brother – could not have said it better myself. Afraid though, it is going to get worse as what you sow you reap and the UK is going to to reap some nasty stuff as it continues to move further away from the true living God it served for so long!
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