There was an opportunity early on....Far earlier bombing of Assad and his forces..no fly zones and this was a stage where there was a far larger moderate division of forces to work with. Arming them and training them early would have been more effective.

The west did nothing for them and they were killed or melted away into a much smaller group leaving mostly just the extremists.

As usual the leftists screwed it up.

As for the form of intervention Syria is a foreign culture. I wouldn't myself place direct combat troops on the ground. They say they want you but in reality they quickly become resentful and turn against the 'outsider'.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Hope it is your last word on this as you are making yourself look a bit stupid.
Majority are not famalies, A lot are not even from war effected areas and they are nearly all men. The rigourous checks you mentioned yesterday didnt actually include checking that these so called children are actually related to the so called famalies/men already in the UK. They have failed with basic checks. The checks allowed a 38 year old child migrant in.

You'll be telling us the mess made in Iraq was the fault of the Socialist Workers Party next.

Which particular Leftists - and by that term we have to be talking about not socially conscious liberals but proper Wedgie Benn types, right? - are the ones that let the Syrian people down in 2011/12?

I do agree though that something militarily swift and concrete needed to be done back then to oust Assad.

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Well when I refer to leftists I'm referring to those who voted against action.

So I'm combining a fairly diverse group of people here....So perhaps the word 'leftists' isn't quite accurate.

But those on the left made up the majority of those against action.

They think they were being ethical....In fact they have elongated a war and hence allowed innocent death numbers to be far worse.

The war is far from over.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

30 of Camerons own MPS voted against for military action and scuppered the motion. They will be right-wing types. And that was in 2013 when things had got very messy. Help was needed straightaway in 2011 and 2012 in reality if the revolution was to succeed.

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In the 2011 census 59% of residents of England and Wales described themselves as Christian. In Scotland, the figure was 54%, down from 65%. In Northern Ireland 83% said they belonged to a Christian denomination.

Lets have a second census!

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