"But why are they in Syria in the first place?"
The went to fight when they saw their fellow Muslims being massacred and driven into torture chambers with the help of British military equipment Nigel
People asked my father exactly the same question when he went of to fight fascists in Spain - shortly afterwards, the same people he went to fight were bombing the shit out of Britain and herding the Jews into gas chambers
Britain supported the rise of Assad even though they were warned by Amnesty about the mass murder and torture that he was instigating
Even when he started massacring his own people openly on the streets of Homs, Britain voted not to become involved
It transpired that the chemicals sold to him could well have been used to make the weapons Assad Assed used on his opponents
Whatever they turned out to be, the young people were volunteers fighting a madman because the rest of the world stood by doing nothing - they were heroes
Britain and those who supported their actions in Syria should hang their head in shame - they certainly should not be supporting punishment of those who had the courage to do what the rest of the world failed to do
Jim Carroll