Peter Ford’s appearance on the BBC News has caused ripples amongst viewers by defying the usual conventions that the BBC is so often acquainted with.
During his live interview, the former British Ambassador to Syria highlighted the lack of authenticity in the facts that were being propagated as well as shedding light on Trump’s intrusion on the matter.
Referring to claims that Assad is responsible for the chemical attack in Syria, the BBC host said, “That’s a statement of fact, right?”
Ford earnestly responds: It’s a myth. It’s a statement of non-fact.”
“What’s needed is an investigation, because there are two possibilities for what happened. One is the American version, that Assad dropped chemical weapons on this locality. The other version is that an ordinary bomb was dropped and it hit a munitions dump where jihadis were storing chemical weapons. We don’t know which of these two possibilities is the correct one.
“Remember the run up to Iraq. The experts, the intelligence agencies, the politicians were convinced that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. They produced reams of evidence, photographs, diagrams. They were all wrong. It was all wrong. It’s possible that they are wrong in this instance as well. That they are just looking for a pretext to attack Syria.”
The United States maintains that Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad was behind the cruel chemical attack experienced by civilians in Syria on April 4th.
Without congressional approval, US President Donald Trump launched a barrage of missiles against Assad’s government in Syria in what he says was a response to the disaster.
A decision of such magnitude should be based on thorough evidence; however, as Ford pointed out, it is still unclear what actually happened.
“We have the US and Russian versions of events, but no evidence either way.”
Then Ford went further to say: “Assad may be cruel, brutal but he’s not mad. It defies belief that he would bring this all on his head for no military advantage… It would anger the Russians
“Trump has just given the jihadis a thousand reasons to stage fake flag operations. Seeing how successful and how easy it is, with a gullible media, to provoke the West into intemperate reactions.”
“We will all pay the consequences. The oil price will spike. There will very likely be more use, not less use, of chemical weapons, as a result of this. And, this is also important, the Russians and the Syrians will give less co-operation in the fight against ISIS.”
