HAGUE WARNS OF ENDLESS MEDDLING IN NORTH AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST

In a pathetic attempt to cover his tracks in causing the trouble in the Middle East, William Hague has warned in The Daily Telegraph that we must be prepared for the long haul both there and North Africa.

Hague was Foreign Secretary for over 4 years just as The Arab Spring kicked off in Libya and Syria.

The Arab Spring was a CIA/US State Dept stunt to provide international cutthroat Jihadis with cover as 'freedom fighters'. This was done because by 2007 the initial plan for war and regime change in seven countries in five years as revealed to General Wesley Clark shortly after 9/11 was moribund, Iraq and Lebanon the only two nations to experience war, and Iraq the only one to also experience regime change.

So under Hague, British Special Forces assisted these Jihadis on the ground, and NATO bombed Libya back to the stone age. What was initially a protect-civilians operation very quickly turned into a Get-Gaddafi campaign, which they eventually did when Gaddafi was murdered.

Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas said that in 2009 he was asked by British officials to organise pipelines to smuggle Jihadis into Syria. After killing Gaddafi the Jihadis were smuggled into Syria where they have helped to destroy Syria too.

All this happened under Hague.

But what does Hague now say?

A free country and democracy can take decades to build. The West will need strategic patience to assist that, rather than dropping each problem country as quickly as possible or pronouncing it a failure.

In recent years, we have helped edge Somalia in the right direction, through painstaking negotiations behind the scenes, fighting piracy in the Indian Ocean, establishing a legitimate government with UN support and with Europeans paying African armies to fight the terrorist Al-Shabab.

This effort will take many more years to succeed fully. So will the latest push in Libya, of which the training of a home-grown army will be a crucial part. This combination of long-term initiatives will increasingly be the hallmark of successful intervention.

Going back for another effort at solving problems overseas is vital. Turning our backs and thinking it’s hopeless would produce the greatest calamities of all.

[source : William Hague, We can't now turn our backs on the chaos in the Middle East, Daily Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/04/25/we-cant-now-turn-our-backs-on-the-chaos-in-the-middle-east/, 26th April 2016]