"What about a comment on who is supplying all those munitions raining down on the terrified people? "
All exporters of weapons and equipment to regimes such as that of Syria and Libya should be condemned outright as supporters of human rights abusers and should be subject to international law for supporting the abuses - in this case, to a horrific extreme.
To concentrate on a carefully selected few weapons suppliers, pretend that your own country has not been involved, and to describe exposing the fact that it has, (and continues to broker arms deals with similar regimes) when confronted with the evidence, as "anti-British" is, at the very least squalid hypocracy, and is, in fact supporting those regimes by covering up from where they have acquired their arms.
The "anti-British" defence is straight out of the BNP handbook.
We can, and do condemn from afar any state involved in supplying arms to murderers, but we can only bear direct responsibility for our own rulers - they have acted in our name in supplying BRITISH arms and equipment, and their having done so undermines our position to criticise others.
To supply, selectively condemn, then breast-beat over the consequences is no more than 'crocodile tears - (we've been here before).
I'm a bit at a loss as to how to describe the suggestion that the supplying of anti-riot equipment by our government is acceptable
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Jim Carroll