One might think that the shambles we unleashed in Iraq and in the Lebanon would have taught us that doing good in such places is largely beyond our reach. We have neither the muscle nor the will - or even the moral high ground. There may be times and places where we can do some good, but I do not believe that Syria is one of them. Russia and Iran both seem to want the ball (why, I can't imagine), so let them run with it and see how they get on. Will they do any better than we have managed in the past?
So Simon Jenkins, in yesterday's Guardian, has got it about right. Keep out.
But, with a weak Prime Minister who needs to suck up to the US and an aging clown for Foreign Secretary, who knows?
PS: I use the word shambles in the foregoing in its Biblical sense of killing ground or slaughterhouse.
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