Euan McColm: Corbyn’s immutable logic against Syria strikes

0 Have your say Jeremy Corbyn’s position on allied strikes against chemical weapons facilities in Syria surely confirms the deeply held convictions of both his most loyal supporters and his fiercest opponents. To those signed up to the Corbyn project, the Labour leader’s anger over Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to commit British forces to limited action last week is righteous; his insistence that any intervention in Syria could only be countenanced if it came backed by the support of the United Nations will have reassured them that here is a man of rare integrity, not like all those “warmongers” they used to have to put up with.Those unconvinced by the Corbyn phenomenon, on the other hand, may have detected more than a little cynicism in the leader of the opposition’s position. Russia, after all, has repeatedly used its veto, during discussions at the UN Security Council, to block any action in Syria.Russia’s support for the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad – and, thus, its complicity in the chemical weapons attacks that have killed scores of innocent civilians during years of civil war – mean that its position on military intervention is unlikely to change. Russian president Vladimir Putin… Read full this story

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