Boris Johnson: Don't arm the Syria maniacs

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Arming the Syrian rebels would be disastrous because Britain would be “pressing weapons into the hands of maniacs”, says Boris Johnson.

The Mayor of London warns David Cameron that the UK must not use Syria as an “arena for muscle-flexing” and says that any weapons sent to the country’s opposition could end up in the hands of al-Qaeda.

His comments come after several leading figures opposed any move by Mr Cameron to join President Barack Obama in providing greater assistance to the forces fighting Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia, whose nation provides arms to the Assad regime, criticised the Prime Minister for considering arming rebels who “eat the organs” of their enemies.

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg also cautioned Mr Cameron against arming the Free Syrian Army, saying that if it were a good idea, Britain would have done it already. The former head of the Army, Lord Dannatt, said he feared any such assistance would lead Britain into further intervention, while the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, urged Mr Cameron to “tread very warily”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10124089/Boris-Johnson-Dont-arm-the-Syria-maniacs.html

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1. Johnson is clearly smarter than Cameron.

I predict that the first civilian aircraft downed by the antiaircraft missiles the US, Britain, France, Qatar, the Saudis are providing will be a European flag carrier in some out-of-the-way place.

"Nobody could have foreseen such a thing."