Assad

I don't buy Assad s claim at all. Immediately after the gas attack, the Russians claimed it was a normal bombing that hit a stockpile of rebel chemical weapons. In my view unlikely, but at least plausible. Now a week or so later, Assad is claiming, no, it was not that at all, it was all made up, a fabrication using actors if you like. If he had stuck to the story his ally, the Russians gave, it might have worked, but to be completely at odds, simply makes both accounts nonsense.

As to whether Assad should stay or go. I have always thought he should stay. Nasty twat that he is, the fact is Syria was stable until we decided to attempt more regime change. You would think our halfwit politicians would understand this given the remarkable success they have had in Iraq stable with Saddam, Libya stable with Gaddaffi, Egypt stable with Mubarak, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia etc etc. The problem with all these countries is they do not work to a system of western democracy. They are tribal and need a chief to rule them. Provided they are not affecting us in the west, we should leave them to it, even if the way they behave to their own people, we might consider barbaric and backwards.