"Britain was against military intervention then."
Yet the same Britain went into Iraq, it sold equipment and ammunition to Assad, Gadaffi and continues to sell it to all these nasty extremist Muslim states.
I have little doubt it will happily go into the Ukraine if H.M.V. on the other side of the pond whistles
" you and I were the only backers here."
Don't you dare associate my name with yours - your crocodile tears for the people of Homs included defending the sale of sniper ammunition, armoured cars and water cannon and proposing the sales of even more - as you said at the time "even democracies have the right to keep order" (or some gibberish of that sort).
It later extended to defending chemicals which could well have been used in the manufacture of chemical weapons - give us a break Keith - when it comes to defending atrocities, you are way out on your own.
I suggested that the UN should intervene - Britain voted against it - I then suggested that the more powerful democracies might intervene, as they had done in Iraq, Afghanistan - or where it was in their political or economic interests to do so - no takers there either - you can hardly wonder that the Islamist star is on the rise when the people have been totally abandoned by the West.
I describe myself as a pacifist (sort of) because I realise that pacifism is idealistic in today's world.
My father was a pacifist (sort of) yet he went and killed Spaniards because he believed that what was happening in Spain heralded something far worse - he got branded by British Democracy as a "premature Anti-Fascist by the forces of law and order and became unemployable in his home city for the next decade and a half.
I have no "mates" here- just people I either agree or disagree with.

Jim Carroll