"Parliament outvoted the government"
That's what I said - Britain refused to intervene.
Those opposing Assad at the present time, whatever we might think of their religion and politics, are in fact freedom fighters, ad it is a characteristic of ultra-rights like yourself to pass off freedom fighting as terrorism - its as old as Hereward the Wake.
Putting a war against a serial torturer and mass-murderer just about confirms your 'ultra-rightness'.
"all Mudcat apart from us two were against."
You persist in this lie - giving me the opportunity once more to point out that you, despite all your Uriah Heep hand-wringing for the murdered of Homs, not only opposed intervention ("we can't ber expected to fight everybody's wars" or some such garbage) , but you actually expressed support for Assad by apporoving of Britain having supplied armoured cars, tear gas, water cannon, sniper rifle bullets (which you mistook for rifles, but still condoned them) and other anti-personnel equipment - the last time we argued about it, that remained your position.
You topped that by defending the sale of chemicals which quite likely added to the chemical weapons he used on Syrian civilians.
Like it or not, you really fell out of the closet as a pro-Assadite on that occasion.
Back to the main point - Christians are just as capable of slaughtering those of other religions when it suits them; sometimes it has been actually about religion - on this occasion it is about political of disputed territories.
I used to have the old newspaper cutting reporting the Pope blessing the bombs being sent to kill the people of Abyssinia.
Funny old thing, religion!!
Jim Carroll