Tag: Britain

Double dealing is not new to Britain.Take any instance from monarchical days on its relations with the then Austrian Empire,Spain,France right upto relinquishing Palestine when the going was very hot to land Palestine and the world in a mess.
No surprises now on Britain taking a moralistic stand on war on terror by sending troops when every one knows it is a lost cause ,on the other ,planning to abstain from voting in UN on Gaza atrocities by Israel.
Truly,Democracy faithfully follows Monarchy.Keep it up.
Story.
‘British Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week made the politically hard call, no more than eight months before a national election, to send another contingent of 500 British troops to Afghanistan. Perhaps President Obama, playing Hamlet over whether to boost American forces, can take inspiration from Mr. Brown’s commitment. The British are concerned about American wavering and the mounting weeks of uncertainty, and they want to see Mr. Obama sign himself back up to his original Afghan war strategy.

So it’s especially unfortunate to see Mr. Brown’s government take a different side in another front of this global war on terror. Today at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, the U.K. plans to abstain in a vote on a 575-page account of a “fact finding mission” into the January war in the Gaza Strip. Among Western allies, Britain will likely be alone in not trying to stop the so-called Goldstone report from reaching the Security Council, from where it could go on to the International Criminal Court.’
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704322004574475560854872736.html?mod=djemEditorialPage