David Cameron, the Brit’s foreign secretary delivering the laughs today:
https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status...79427288645786
For those who don’t have Twitter account, the brief:
Interviewer: Is it bad judgement to hit Iranian sovereign territory in Damascus?
Cameron: It is something the Israelis decided to do and he completely understands the decision and their frustration.
Interviewer: What about Iran’s frustration about their sovereign territory being flattened?
Cameron: There is a massive degree of difference between what Israel did and what Iran did. For the first time a state on state attack. Reckless and dangerous thing for Iran to have done.
Interviewer: What would we do if a hostile nation flattened our consulate?
Cameron: Well, we would take a very strong action.
Interviewer: And Iran would say that that’s what they did.
Cameron: What Iran did, as I said, was a massive attack.
Interviewer: So what you are saying is that they had a right to respond, but they overreacted?
Cameron: Well the attack was on a massive scale, much larger than what Israel did.
Interviewer: But they have a right to respond…
Cameron: Countries have a right to respond when they feel an aggression, of course they do. But look at the scale of that response… There could have been thousands of civilian casualties.
You can’t make this stuff up, really. I mean this is pretty great entertainment.
In a wider interview, he also said that that Israel should call it square and not retaliate.
Here is what Britain or the US would have done. The attack on foreign embassy is considered to be an attack on that state directly because embassies are generally, as the interviewer properly called it, sovereign territories of the states. So not only the UK or the US would start flattening the perpetrator state the same or the next day, they would also invoke article 5 of the Treaty and then continue levelling the place together with the NATO coalition. Is this even debatable?
Anyway, I thought it was extremely hilarious. Especially in light of what Israel is doing in Gaza and what Cameron said there in the last sentence, lol. He also said in the wider interview that Israel should switch his focus and continue in Gaza, lol. People are insane. It’s like he is delivering statements from another planet or something.