"When a government ignores our will we throw them out."

And the next government continues to do the same things,

"We do not chop up helpless, unarmed young squaddies and pretend we are doing something noble."

No, instead we kill helpless unarmed people in other ways, far away from where we live, and in far greater numbers. And we call tat a noble enterprise.

Murder is obscene, wherever it is done. There is a duty on those in whose name it is done to denounce it and to repudiate it. That is indeed true of Muslim leaders, to whom it must be appalling to see an unarmed man chopped down by someone calling out the name of Allah - but it is every bit as much true of those of us whose governments involve us in organised slaughter in distant countries.