As if to emphasise the points made in the preceding Post, today on the BBC lunchtime news, the former British Ambassador to Syria, a very distinguished diplomat, added his voice to the the chorus of criticism building up about the government’s refusal to see the need to open a dialogue with Assad to combat ISIL. He put it bluntly. He said the toppling of the Assad regime was not in the strategic interests of Great Britain.
This Tory led coalition has become the most dangerously confused government on matters of foreign policy to lead Britain since that of Anthony Eden and before him, that of Neville Chamberlain.