Polly Toynbee: Cameron’s neat and clear path to peace is far from the chaos of Syria
“A bunch of terrorist sympathisers” – that’s the low, cheap David Cameron, the one whose mask so often slips when the cameras are turned away. Base politics or genuine conviction: which is driving us on this path to war? Both, no doubt, with motives never pure and unmixed on either side of the House.
But as one angry MP after another from every other party demanded he withdraw this squalid smear, how hard would it have been to say sorry? Had he apologised quickly and with grace, he might have succeeded in putting a stronger case for the Syrian bombing, raising the tone of this defining debate. Why on earth not? No one at all thinks Islamic State is anything but the mass-slaughtering, woman-raping, aid worker-murdering, death-cult of “these evil people”, as Cameron called them.
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