"More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars"- Franklin D. Rossevelt

 

An end to all wars... Again

I don't like using the above title, apart from it's obvious impossibility, but the way in which some perceive it to be realistic. After the Paris attacks just over two weeks ago, the knee jerk reaction was hardly going to be subtle, but I don't think we need another Iraq. No one needs another Iraq. Especially Tony Blair. I've had many debates on this issue, and not for the first time, I was the odd one out. I don't know what the hell we should do. Black tar stuck on mud is clearer, as I wander into the dark asking every now and then: "When's the debate happening?"

On such a sensitive subject war should surely be a "free vote", which judging by Corbyn and Cameron's response, will actually happen. But as always, this never tells the full story, a bit like being given a promise by the Tories, you never know what's actually going to happen. To my mind at least, the vote will only result in more bombings in Syria, in the same way the world keeps turning. Another reaction to an event. Never preventing. I hear arguments on peace, bombings, funding the Kurds etc... But history has show cased all these examples before. And these all contribute to ISIS. Yes Mr Cameron, I did use the term ISIS with no "so-called", give me a five year prison sentence now, but only if your colleague Mrs. May gets one too for trying to find out what I look up on the internet at three o'clock in the morning.

 

All this talk of a two day talk is driving my nut in, quite literally. Alex Salmond is like sandpaper to my ears and when I heard about him unveiling a portrait of himself rather than attend a meeting about military action in Syria, I was genuinely pleased. This isn't to do with the Scottish Independence Referendum, it's about the fact that he doesn't take anything Syriaously (credit to Harry Freeman). When he was First Minister he sounded more like an SNP puppet more than an individual, dictating that Scottish independence is the only way forward in a world full of British tyrannical rule, much like innocent school children have to put up with loose Scottish kilts showing them something I can't describe without a court order. But now that common sense has prevailed, the same problems occurred, Salmond still trumpets the independence flag, calling another referendum over more pressing issues e.g. Syria. He told the press he attended a separate meeting and briefing from security officials and joint chiefs about the situation in Syria, but then again who hasn't, he might as well have watched FOX News and got the same picture.

 

Thankfully however, the final decision is unlikely to come down to the SNP, or any talking fish (Salmond and Sturgeon) people for that matter. But it will come down to everyone in the House of Commons, which I'm not exactly hopeful for, it's a bit like wishing for Santa to be real: you know all you're child life that he is, until the left wing white bearded man losses his red coat and dons a top hat with a blue pair of scissors.

 

Jordan Ifield (War, what is it good for? Thatcher? Oh...)