COUNTRIES: SYRIA: Former UK Military Chiefs Voice Objections to Syria Attacks

[David P. Dillard]

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COUNTRIES: SYRIA:

Former UK Military Chiefs Voice Objections to Syria Attacks

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Former UK Military Chiefs Voice Objections to Syria Attacks

Leading figures warn of unintended consequences, but foreign policy
analysts insist red line crossed

Robert Booth

The Guardian

Tuesday 27 August 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/military-syria-attacks

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Former leaders of the British armed forces led objections on Tuesday to
military strikes against Syria following last week's poison gas attack in
Damascus, which killed hundreds and injured thousands.

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General Lord Dannatt, former head of the British army, and Lord West,
former first sea lord, both warned of unintended consequences if, as seems
increasingly likely, US forces launch missiles against President's Bashar
al-Assad's military facilities in the coming days.

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A former UK ambassador to Syria, Sir Andrew Green, urged Russia and China
to use their influence against Assad rather than military force while Lord
King, the former defence secretary, said it was imperative to find a
solution, "and it mustn't be military".

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Backing strikes were the former prime minister Tony Blair, who warned of
"the consequences of wringing our hands instead of putting them to work",
and foreign policy analysts from Chatham House in London and the Council
on Foreign Relations in Washington, who said Assad had crossed a red line
by using chemical weapons.

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Geoffrey Robertson QC said in the Times that there "is a right for
regional groups like Nato and the Arab League to use force to stop crimes
against humanity such as a state mass-murdering its citizens by poison
gas". Robertson went on to say that the UN would not require a full
mandate to go ahead with limited strikes as long as evidence was first
established that the Assad regime was responsible for last week's attacks.

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"It's wrong," said Dannatt of the strike plan being drawn up in
Washington, Paris and London. "Because although undoubtedly by any moral
standards at all using chemical weapons against your own people which is
what on the balance of probabilities it now seems Assad has done [is
wrong] this does not constitute an open invitation for the international
community to impose themselves on the internal affairs of another
country."

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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