The West, or anybody who gave support to Assad, was to blame - anybody.
Britait did what they did - sold armoured cars, ammunition and riot control equipment to a murderous dictator who they knew to have a record of suppression, torture and murder - at a time when Assad's snipers were using mothers carrying children in arms as target practice, you sneered at the sales as "a few sniper rifles" - very Christian and compassionate, I'm sure!!
When he was discovered to have been sold chemicals capable of manufacturing the weapons he was found using on the Syrian population, your response was "he said he was only using it for peaceful purposes" - Christian trust and understanding, I take it?
Nobody supported the sale of weapons and equipment to murderous regime by anybody - you supported its sale by Britain.
The failure of the UN and later, of the Western Powers, to intervene in the war crimes and atrocities committed by Assad on his people, gave impetus for Isis to take advantage to step in and become the threat is now is - the West fully shares the blame for that rise to power.
Britain allows and encourages the sale weapons to mass murderers, terrorist states and feudal dictators, knowing full well their reputations - that is immoral.
I deplore all sales of weapons to anybody, by anybody - it is an abomination.
When it is done on my behalf it is my duty, as a British citizen, to make my disapproval known - not to defend it on the basis that others do it, as you do.
Wonder what happened to the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" part of the Christian creed - unprofitable an inconvenient to some Christians, it would appear, along with "suffer the little children"
A Christian - you must be joking!!!
Jim Carroll