Neocon coup blunts the UK foreign affairs committee
The newly elected chairman replacing Crispin Blunt supports the Saudis in Yemen, regrets the nuclear deal with Iran, and opposed UN condemnation of West Bank settlements
Peter Oborne Friday 14 July 2017 11:38 UTC Saturday 15 July 2017 8:16 UTC
For the past 25 years, the influential House of Commons foreign affairs committee was a notorious poodle of the British establishment.
Under successive Conservative and Labour administrations, it reliably did what the executive wanted. It looked the other way over Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.
So it came as an ultra refreshing change when the Tory MP and former army officer Crispin Blunt was elected chairman in the wake of the 2015 general election.
Blunt used his committee to ask honest questions about British foreign policy. He refused to serve up the fudge which the establishment demanded.
Down to business
His committee produced a devastating report into David Cameron's catastrophic intervention in Libya in 2011. It ventured into unknown territory by cautioning against military intervention in Syria in 2015. ...
Continued: http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/foreign-affairs-crispin-blunt-uk-435761826
An interesting viewpoint, I'm not sure I agree with all of it.
