It’s not Jeremy Corbyn who’s wrong about Syria

PAUL Routledge (Examiner, April 12) is the one who has got it wrong and not Jeremy Corbyn when it comes to issues affecting Syria.

Corbyn in the past also got it right about Afghanistan and the illegal war against Iraq.

Donald Trump has intensified US-led bombing in the Middle East which seems to have made him popular with some people confronting Russia over Syria and provocatively deploying US warships in Korean waters.

Theresa May and Boris Johnson are nothing more than lackeys for the US government. At least Jeremy Corbyn wants to work alongside the United Nations and other European countries, some of whom have also condemned the US actions.

Paul Routledge claims that Jeremy is out of touch with his MERICA’S military strike against the blood-soaked Syrian regime also hit London. Trump’s Tomahawk missiles caused heavy collateral amage among our politicians, who were knocked all over the lace. Foreign Secretary oris Johnson ancelled a longtanding visit to Moscow, presumbly on orders rom Prime Minster May – herself robably doing Washington’s biding. With a new Cold War ooming, the UK is now in a standff with Russia, sitting on the bench Corbyn showed, once again, his brilliant skill at jumping to the wrong conclusion. Eventually, and after giving the issue at hand his most considered judgment. More than eight hours after America rained down cruise missiles on Bashir al Assad’s poison gas airbase, the Labour leader finally came out of his bunker. Out of step with his own deputy, his own shadow defence secretary, many of his MPs and public opinion across the country, he condemned the air strikes. I haven’t conducted an opinion poll of the good people of Huddersfield, but I’m willing to bet deputy leader, shadow defence secretary and a number of his MPs.

But it is these MPs who are disloyal. They don’t accept Jeremy as their leader and some of them are operating as a party within a party seeking to undermine Corbyn at every turn.

As the late Denis Healey used to say, if these MPs had served in a war like he did and seen the human cost, they’d think twice, and not make such hasty decisions. IF you want to know the truth about international affairs, you should apply this simple and fool-proof rule; listen to what your government and national media says and believe the opposite.

This is the only way to get