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70,000 Kalashnikovs: Cameron's "Moderate" Rebels
Fisk, Robert
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/30/70000-kalashnikovs-camerons-moderate-rebels/Date Written: 2015-11-30 Publisher: CountePunch Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX18467 Not since Hitler ordered General Walther Wenck to send his non-existent 12th Army to rescue him from the Red Army in Berlin has a European leader believed in military fantasies as PR Dave Cameron did last week. Telling the House of Commons about the 70,000 "moderate" fighters deployed in Syria was not just lying in the sense that Tony Blair lied - because Blair persuaded himself to believe in his own dishonesty - but something approaching burlesque. It was whimsy - ridiculous, comic, grotesque, ludicrous. It came close to a unique form of tragic pantomime. Subject Headings |