UK double standards on peace revisited

The UK government’s double-standards on peace came further to light during its prime minister’s recent trip to the already volatile Middle East region.

Prime Minister David Cameron is known as being quite willing to stand in front of TV cameras and lecture the public on the values of peace and democracy.

But, it’s very simple to evaluate his commitment to those values through a review of his actions.

The current UK government is not only one of the main perpetrators of conflict in Syria, but it also helped destroy Libya by designating and implementing an illegal NATO bombing campaign against the country.

As recently as a few days ago, David Cameron revealed his government’s intentions to get more deeply involved with the civil war in Syria by supplying terrorists fighting the country’s popular government with heavy weaponry.

The UK government has already been promoting bloodshed in Syria through its spying agents and its special troops giving logistical help and communications services to the foreign-backed insurgents who are seeking to topple the government of president Bashar al-Assad.

Moreover, Britain not only exported weapons and crowd control equipment to the deposed Gaddafi regime months before attacking his country, but also supplied those arms and weaponry to the deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and to the regime in Bahrain, where Al Khalifa thugs have been brutally killing and imprisoning pro-democracy protesters since February last year.

Meanwhile, David Cameron was last week accompanying representatives of British weapons manufacturers to Saudi Arabia and the UAE in an attempt to win further lucrative weapons contracts for UK firms.

Britain has a shameful track record of exporting arms and equipment to regimes in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and it cannot claim to be on the side of peace and democracy while its prime minister acts as a travelling salesman for the arms industry.

Henry McLaughlin, from the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) says “despite everything that has happened in the last two years in certain Arab countries, the British government continues to bolster authoritarian regimes with weapons’ sales and to spend taxpayers’ money on promoting further arms deals.”