"Jim, you are attempting to equate "industrial action" with economic sanctions against another country."
So what - Economic sanctions and other methods of political pressure are the only peaceful alternatives to sending in troops to stop despotism.
If Britain had used either against Assad at the time when his snipers were slaughtering the people of Homs, Isis would have never got a toe-hold in Syria.
The fact that our country is tied into these despots, politically and economically through trade, mainly oil and arms, has started a conflagration in the Middle East which has spilled over into the rest of the world.
I said earlier that people putting forward arguments like yours never come up with a solution of their own - and haven't you just proved me right.
Your argument, that we should wash our hands of the whole thing and let them get on with it is immoral, inhuman and it is self-defeating.
We need to take responsibility for the harm we have helped cause by concentrating on what it is all about - human rights and the desire of ordinary people to better their lot.
That doesn''t mean driving way refugees, or continuing sell arms to the monsters, or even just fighting terrorism on the home front.
It's always been a matter of winning the hearts and minds of the ordinary citizens of these countries - not sucking up to their oppressors because it suits our own well-being to do so.
Your contempt for human rights and those who would seek to win them has become legendary.
Far from offering a solution, your arguments are the problem.
Just as a basic poin - how would you feel if Britain had turned away the Jews in the thirties and forties because "there was no room" - would thaaa have made you happy?
Jim Carroll