David Cameron: Russia and Iran will not accept Syria without Assad | World news | The Guardian
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That's marvellous. Nothing like announcing tenets of foreign policy and diplomatic exchanges to foreign media before telling your own country what you think is happening. And no matter what the circumstances, it's just tactically idiotic. But then all he wants is to build a case for it all, which of course is where lying to the public and parliament is about to come in. Again. With the RAF.

Corbyn might have a media attention-grabbing cause sooner than expected at this rate.

Given Assad is fighting IS, surely we could learn to live with him.

About 4 years ago Assad released all the jihadists who were held in his prisons. They joined ISIS, as he intended. He got to present himself as the only alternative to evil zealots, and to brand all his opponents as terrorists.

I didn't know that.