Mission Even More Accomplished

Allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria will continue to be taken as seriously as expediency requires and will result in the usual escalation of righteous bombast and civilian casualties within the customarily accepted parameters of international thuggery. The Fox News chickenhawk John Bolton, whom the Trumpster and his hydrophobic head-tribble have appointed national security adviser faute de pire, has warned the beast Assad that the World Cop's eye does not sleep even though his truncheon may be elsewhere employed; and if the beast Assad did not know before, he has surely realised by now that chemical weapons are unequivocally contrary to all acceptable international standards of behaviour, except when used against Iran by such warriors for freedom and democracy as Saddam Hussein. For the World Cop, of course, any given event or non-event may legitimately be utilised as an excuse to bomb anything or anybody; so even should America's peacemakers be re-deployed to Iran in pursuit of Bolton's febrile supercaliphatuous visions, the people of Syria no doubt feel safer already.