you have persistently advocated doing nothing
Not true.
I have only been hesitant about military intervention
I am surprised that you are so gung ho.

- you have opposed the only thing that would remove Assad - active opposition in support of democracy in Syria
No I have not!
You just made that up!

Your opposition to this is in line with the official British one - the Syrian people cannot be trusted to replace Assad with a leadership acceptable to the west
Lie.
That is not the official or unofficial British line.
The British line is that Assad must go.

so it is rght that the world stands by and watches while the massacres continue.
It would not be and the world has not.
Not the West anyway.
The actions taken by Western countries would have brought Assad down but for Russian intransigence.

You have even suggested that the perpetrator be provided with suitabl equipment to suppress democratic protest - riot control gear.
Non lethal equipment does not suppress protest.
I suggested it was better than lethal bullets but you disagreed.
Assad is not interested in non lethal because he does want to suppress the rising.

You have denied your own statement that Britain supplied him with sniper rifle bullets.
Yes, because it was a mistake.
I do not have any secret knowledge about sniper bullets
I am Keith A not James B!

Throughout this thread you have lied and distorted the facts (even those identified by you) and the statements of others - .
A bit rich in view of the above!
I have not lied on this or any thread.
It is not what I do.
I do not understand why you think it worth doing.

Since I have been aware of your presence, you have supported some of the most horrific human rights abuses to take place within my liifetime - the Shatila and Sabra massacres
Lie, and a really nasty one this time.
Of course I have done no such thing.
No-one would.

- the Israelis can't have been responsible because they didn't do it; Brievik - must have been insane because he is a Christian racist (while a Muslim guilty of killing people for the same reason) - must have been sane because he was a Muslim.
What have those mad statements got to do with me Jim?