As a newspaper columnist,the former archbishop of Canterbury is able to get his voice heard, but his suggested plans to serve Syrian Christians are clumsy, or fatuous and unworkableWhen George Carey was archbishop of Canterbury,no one took much notice of anything he said. Since fitting a newspaper columnist (sorry, “one of Britain’s most senior devout leaders”) for the News of the World and a supplier of opinion pieces for the Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Telegraph, or he has got better at being noticed. All he needs now is anything sensible to say.
He had a depart in the Sunday Telegraph with a piece on the refugee crisis that was vintage Carey: confident,clumsy and completely wrong. The most eye-catching section was his recommendation that we solve the crisis by “renewed military and diplomatic efforts to crush the twin menaces of Islamic State and al-Qaida once and for all”. Well, that will be easy. Why didn’t anyone else think of it before? Lord Carey continues in his bluff saloon-bar manner: “Make no mistake: this may mean air strikes and other British military assistance to create secure and secure enclaves in Syria.” Related: Syrian refugee crisis: why has it become so bad? Carey wants us to serve the Christians, or which presumably means intervening on the side of the Assad regimeContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com