The reaction of the British public and fellow panelists
to what Melanie
Phillips said at the BBC’s Question Time is truly shocking. That
the audience is ignorant of the Iranian threat is bad enough, but that Ed
Davey, MP, is as ignorant is the
fault of the House of Commons. Has the House of Commons ever debated the inapplicability
of MAD with regards to Iran?
For if leading scholars of
Islam like Bernard
Lewis and Raphael
Israeli, former CIA director James
Woolsey , former CIA spy who spent 10 years among the Revolutionary Guards,
Reza
Kahlili and German scholar Matthias
Kuntzel , all believe that the Iranian threat is real, should not the
House find out the truth for itself?
Two
things, I confess, have staggered me, after a long Parliamentary experience, in
these Debates. The first has been the dangers that have so swiftly come upon us
in a few years, and have been transforming our position and the whole outlook
of the world. Secondly, I have been staggered by the failure of the House of
Commons to react effectively against those dangers. That, I am bound to say, I
never expected. I never would have believed that we should have been allowed to
go on getting into this plight, month by month and year by year, and that even
the Government's own confessions of error have produced no concentration of
Parliamentary opinion and force capable of lifting our efforts to the level of emergency. I say
that unless the House resolves to find out the truth for itself, it will have
committed an act of abdication of duty without parallel. 