Syria

Britain’s involvement in Syria is now decided. It also satisfies all the stated UN aims and conditions. The assumption is that an indiscriminate carpet bombing campaign is underway in which countless thousands of civilians will perish but the reality is very different. The RAF has carried out over 400 air strikes so far in Iraq with not one civilian casualty reported. At the moment there’s no evidence to suggest that Syria will be any different. http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/raf-pledges-no-civilian-casualties-in-syria-air-strikes-11364025655859

Those pictures of demolished tower blocks with dead babies covered in dust are the result of Assad’s barrel bombs, not ours. Whether you think Assad with Russian support has a right to murder his own citizens is of course another matter. 

At the moment ISIS have conclusively won the media war and the battle for public opinion so whilst we the moral majority piously march up and down Whitehall, bully our MP’s and sit at home slapping ourselves on the back claiming the moral high ground gay people will still be strapped to chairs and thrown off buildings. Christians will still be crucified, good peaceful Muslims will still be beheaded. Cannabis smoking criminals will still be stoned to death and women sex slaves who are deemed past their “sexual best” will still earn a bullet to the back of their head and get thrown unceremoniously into a mass burial pit, countless thousands of them too. To do nothing and look away is to condemn many more thousands to the same fate. 
This is not about a war with Syria, it’s about a savage, barbaric and fascist ideology that directly threatens millions of people. It’s easy for us to sit at home hand wringing and self flagellating but let’s not forget. All that’s needed for evil to exist is for good men to sit back and do nothing. To also coin a popular phrase, “rant over”.