£500m UK aid to syria

FSA and the Mujahideen are basically the same - "Agree with us or die" / Spent all their time trying to capture and murder military service personnel / film execution of anyone captured / claim to be freedom fighters.

I think the quickest way to bring peace to Syria is intervention on the side of Assad. If we took out the higher up rebel leaders, provided arms and other support to the Syrian military and waged an air campaign against any remnants on the ground, we could easily defeat the rebels. And it would be very low risk. I'm not saying there's no risk, the rebels do appear to have captured some air defence hardware from the military, but I say it's low risk because the air defence hardware in question is supposedly not that effective against a modern air force.

Theyre different, there have been loads of Firefights between the Muji's and the FSA

I suspect though, it will only go towards "helping" one side i.e the rebels. I doubt any of this money will go where it is truly needed - i.e supporting the widows of all dead Syrian service personnel, killed by the "peaceful protesters".

Nick Clegg is probably trying to compensate for the decision not to step into the Syria crisis, which I believe is the right decision, why should our troops lives be at risks when it isn't our war?
Also the trouble with AID money is that it is a 'TOP down' solution, which never really makes a sustainable difference on anything, and will probably be wasted rather than put to good use, rather than say, paying for doctors to help those who were victim to the chemical attacks.
I don't know much about politics of NR but I know that 'Bottom up' AID is the most sustainable form.
It needs to be given in a form which will help the civilians.

Bloody ridiculous. Can we not sort out our own issues first.

Chances are, most of the 'aid' will be syphoned off by 'bureaucrats', similar to what happens in South Asian countries.



One would think that 'charity begins at home' would apply here, but apparently it doesn't matter when it comes to spending millions of pounds from the public purse.