Farage warns UK against joining another US military intervention

Member of the European Parliament and former leader of the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) Nigel Farage gestures as he speaks at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on April 5, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

British politician Nigel Farage, who Donald Trump has once said would be great as the UK’s ambassador to Washington, has criticized the US president for ordering a military strike against government targets in Syria, and called on London not to follow Americans into another military intervention in the Middle East.

In an interview on Friday, Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the Brexit campaigner, said he was very surprised by the attack. “I am very surprised by this.”

“I think a lot of Trump voters will be waking up this morning and scratching their heads and saying 'where will it all end?'” he said.

“As a firm Trump supporter, I say, yes, the pictures were horrible, but I'm surprised. Whatever Assad's sins, he is secular,” added Farage, member of the European Parliament.

Donald Trump (L) and Nigel Farage speak during a campaign rally in Jackson, Mississippi, August 24, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

The US military fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at the al-Shayrat airbase in Homs province in western Syria early Friday.

The missiles were launched from the destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross in the eastern Mediterranean. The strike killed nine civilians, including four children on Friday, according to Syria’s state news agency SANA.

Farage warned Prime Minister Theresa May against following Washington into another war in the Middle East.

“Previous interventions in the Middle East have made things worse rather than better,” the anti-interventionist politician stated.

British Prime Minister Theresa May 

In a statement issued earlier in the day, the British government said it “fully supports” the US missile strike against a Syrian army airbase.

The show of support was a departure from a warning the day before by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson after Trump raised the specter of unilateral action.

Johnson warned against rushing into a war with the Syrian government, and said the top priority should be peace talks and passing a United Nations resolution to investigate the April 4 chemical attack.

"It is very important to try first to get out a UN resolution," the foreign secretary insisted.


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