{"id":509,"date":"2013-06-15T05:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T05:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2013-06-15T05:08:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T05:08:24","slug":"can-freemason-david-cameron-explain-why-he-has-put-us-on-al-qaedas-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/can-freemason-david-cameron-explain-why-he-has-put-us-on-al-qaedas-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Freemason David Cameron explain why he has put us on al-Qaeda\u2019s side?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telegraph<\/a>
\n05 Jun 2013<\/p>\n

Can David Cameron explain why he has put us on al-Qaeda\u2019s side?
\nBy Peter Oborne<\/p>\n

\"David<\/p>\n

The longer a prime minister remains in 10 Downing Street, the more likely he or she is to go mad. Something of the sort happened to Gordon Brown and also, from 2003 onwards if not before, to Tony Blair. No prime minister has left office in full possession of his or her mental faculties since Jim Callaghan in early 1979. <\/p>\n

One of David Cameron\u2019s admirable qualities has been his sanity. He is unexcitable. He is not paranoid, does not conspire against his colleagues, sit up to the small hours of the morning brooding, or hurl pieces of crockery around the room when in a violent rage. He is not subject to sudden, irrational mood-swings. <\/p>\n

None of this can or should be taken for granted, and surely Samantha Cameron can take some of the credit. \u201cMy job is to get him out of here sane,\u201d she tells friends. <\/p>\n

But the Prime Minister has been in the job for three years (and Tory leader for nearly eight), and watching him answer questions on the floor of the House on Monday afternoon, for the first time I started to wonder. <\/p>\n

With Parliament back after the Whitsun recess, Mr Cameron made a statement that dealt principally with the civil war in Syria, and gave the belated parliamentary response to the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Many of his remarks were those of a man with only a tenuous grip on reality. What was missing was common sense. We have seen this many times before.<\/p>\n

Sir Peter Tapsell, father of the Commons, said that Syria was now enduring what is \u201cfundamentally a religious war between the Shia and the Sunni, which has raged within Islam for 1,300 years\u201d. <\/p>\n

Mr Cameron would not accept this point. \u201cWhen I see the official Syrian opposition,\u201d he replied, \u201cI do not see purely a religious grouping; I see a group of people who have declared that they are in favour of democracy, human rights and a future for minorities, including Christians, in Syria. That is the fact of the matter.\u201d <\/p>\n

Then Jack Straw, a former foreign secretary, asked whether the Prime Minister agreed that Iran would have to be part of any peace deal. Mr Cameron failed to deal with this essential question. <\/p>\n

At the time of the Iraq invasion 10 years ago, something very like this happened to Tony Blair. A moment came when he too entered a virtual world. <\/p>\n

Like Mr Blair, Mr Cameron has come to advocate policy in a macabre vacuum, devoid of truth or understanding. He too displays a reluctance to accept the irksome realities of the human condition. Like Mr Blair, Mr Cameron had taken no interest in the world outside Britain before he entered No 10. They both learnt about foreign affairs as prime minister, and both are open to the charge that they treat the subject like a grand, theoretical abstraction. <\/p>\n

From the start, Mr Cameron (just like Mr Blair in Iraq) has been happy to entertain the proposition that this Syrian conflict is in essence a struggle between good and evil \u2013 benevolent democrats and liberals fighting a virtuous struggle against the murderous tyrant Assad. In fact, the rebels were not nearly as good (and President Assad not as evil) as Mr Cameron has thought. <\/p>\n

As a result of this, the Prime Minister has got it wrong from the start. He massively underestimated Assad\u2019s support and staying power. He was absurdly contemptuous of the Russians (who have outmanoeuvred us all along). Above all, he has failed to understand the rebels.<\/p>\n

Very much as Mr Blair and his American allies were duped by the impostor Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress, so Mr Cameron has made the mistake of taking the Syrian National Coalition seriously. They are intelligent, educated, well-intentioned men in suits \u2013 hotel guerrillas \u2013 and as such irrelevant to what is now happening in Syria. The Prime Minister would do well to read the mea culpa published last week in Al-Monitor, by a pseudonymous writer from Aleppo who calls himself Edward Dark. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo what went wrong?\u2019 asks Mr Dark. \u201cOr, to be more accurate, where did we go wrong? <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Mr Dark describes how the revolution has been captured by a collection of gangsters and fanatics. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t what we revolted for,\u201d he says in despair.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

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