Syria......Part Deux

Today, following a debate in the House of Commons, the Government were defeated in their plans to take actions against the perpetrators of the chemical attack.  A lot of commentators have said that this weakens David Cameron's position and the position of Britain in the rest of the World.  Personally, I do not know if that is true, and I must be honest and say that I couldn't care less if Britain's position has been weakened.  As far as Syria goes, a military solution, I.M.H.O, will not change things at all.  Who in their right mind thinks that adding more military hardware to a situation awash with weapons is going to improve the situation?  I am not the only person that thinks that a Diplomatic Solution is the only sensible way to proceed.  The United Nations has many people skilled in the dark arts of diplomacy.  A discussion involving all interested parties, including Russia and all the Middle Eastern neighbours, should be held, under the auspices of the U.N. to discuss the way forward.
The obvious aim would be to have Syria come out the other side with a Western-style democracy, and a pro-Western outlook.  But what would happen if the population of the country voted for a single party state, possibly run by the Ayatollahs, or even worse, the Taliban.  What would the West do then?  My suggestion would be that nothing would happen.  The reason I say that is that Syria has no oil.  Am I an old cynic?  I would have to plead guilty to that one.

Syria, and all that........

Today we have the Western Leaders getting their collective knickers in a twist over the recent events that have occurred in Syria.  The latest 'twist' is the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, during which attack thousands of people died.  Surely the point is that thousands of people died, not who caused their deaths. 
The U.N. weapons inspectors were fired on, presumably, to stop them finding out whether it actually was a chemical attack, what was the chemical used, and, if possible, who originated the chemical attack.  Who would want to stop the inspection?  Clearly the originators of the chemical attack.
The U.N. are clearly 'dragging their feet' by not coming up with a sensible suggestion to deal with the sorry situation in Syria, where hundreds of its' citizens are killing each other by the bucket load.  All attempts have to be used to stop BOTH sides.  America seems to be favouring 'surgical strikes' by  missiles, the American public being understandably unwilling to commit ground troops to a fight in foreign fields.  Britain has been making lots of troops redundant, and I doubt a sustained action by troops could be maintained.  America, with its' side-kick, Britain, should leave the role of the World's Police to the U.N., but until the Russians agree to a course of action, the options are severely limited,