(UK) Stop all intervention in Syria and let the people decide their future

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Stop all intervention in Syria and let the people decide their future

It's hard to listen to parliamentary debates on foreign policy without a growing sense of disbelief.

We saw one again this week, this time over the horrific situation in Aleppo. Most politicians suffer a kind of selective amnesia over past interventions. They bemoan the fact that David Cameron lost the vote to bomb Syria back in 2013, and claim that things would be better there now had MPs voted to intervene.

    We oppose all bombing in Syria, including by the Syrian regime and Russia, but also by the US, UK, Saudi Arabia and other powers intervening there

But they ignore the record of such interventions and the scathing criticisms of them from official bodies, including their own parliamentary select committees.

Three separate reports in the past three months have made clear that those interventions did more harm than good, that they have worsened the situation where they took place, and that two of the previous three British prime ministers – Tony Blair and David Cameron - were very much criticised for their role in the campaigning for war.

The Chilcot report over Iraq was the most scathing, but less reported was the foreign affairs committee report on the bombing of Libya in 2011, which started as the imposition of a no-fly zone but rapidly became a war for regime change, with 30,000 killed by bombing and a civil war still raging today.

The decision to intervene in Syria last December has also faced criticism, this time by the defence select committee.

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MP Andrew Mitchell has called on Britain to shoot down Russian aircraft engaged in bombing runs over Aleppo.

The ceasefire negotiated with Russia  and immediately violated by the United States now looks like nothing more than a deceitful attempt to free 5000 besieged Islamist terrorists in and around Aleppo.

Russia can and will defend itself and its allies from western airstrikes that seem increasingly likely.