The UK's Inconsistent Policy Towards the Middle East Craig Murray, former Ambassador to the Republic of Uzbekistan, and outspoken critic of Western policy has written a disparaging post regarding the current situation in Lebanon.

On the subject of the war between Lebanon and Israel he says:

For every hour... on average two more Lebanese children are dying. Israel claims now to have killed 100 Hizbollah fighters. Even if true, that means they are killing two children to every fighter.

On the point of consistency of policy he says:

Who remembers David Mellor as a junior Tory minister laying into an Israeli soldier for brutality against Palestinians? In his footsteps comes Kim Howells, offering to keep the way clear for the Israeli to get a better shot. We now remember the Security Council Resolution which calls for Hizbollah to disarm, but have forgotten all the other SCRs on the Middle East, most notably the Security Council's demand that Israel returns to its 1967 borders.

He sums up with:

Whenever you think Blair can bring us no lower in international morality, he does it. This government is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocents through its support for Bush's imperialist wars.

I've known it for some time, but Craig Murray confirms it better that I ever could have described it. I live in a "poodle state" that is subservient to the United States of America. It makes me so ashamed to be British.

The full article can be read here: http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/07/craig_murray_on_1.html  ¶ 21:45