Farage, in His Own Words

Nigel Farage is leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party or UKIP, a minor British party favoring the U.K. leaving the EU, which got 1/8 of the votes in the last election. Generally the British press pooh-poohs him and quotes at most a sentence or two to make him look extreme.

Breitbart London has done something useful, they let Farage write a column, and published the whole thing. I just read it and, mostly, I like the cut of his jib.

Farage is brash, true fact, but he is also mostly right about his subject matter: the dreary EU and whether the U.K. gets involved militarily in Syria. About staying in the EU, he writes:

In the end, there will be lots of people who agree with the No campaign in private, but won’t have the balls to do anything public. 

About the Islamic State, he writes:

I am not a supporter of Mr. Assad or Mr. Putin and I’ve been shouted down by the political class over the last couple of years for making the simple point that on the greatest international issue that we face, namely Islamic extremism, these two gentlemen are on our side.

But you cannot knock out IS in just one country. It would need a concerted approach across the whole region. It would need to be simultaneous and it may take 20 years.

And while we dither, IS gets stronger day by day.