A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question

Self-styled internationalists are failing them

The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys

Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help

Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts

We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics

A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon

The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come

The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny

Keeping US troops in Iraq and Syria is too much of a gamble