Our "elected" representative, elected only in the sense of her having put together a hasty and grubby coalition lest we forget, routinely acts first and foremost in her own political interests. She is weak and vulnerable and she knows that whupping far-distant foreigners who her own electorate don't really get to see much of is a cast-iron way of strengthening her hand...she thinks. But we don't live any more in the world of the six o'clock news delivered by a complicit and pliable Beeb. We have it from multiple sources around the clock and we have social media and there are correspondents on the ground in Syria. Democracy demands a fierce reaction to what she's done and the cross-examining should pick her apart. All power to the opposition parties in these regards.