The Left rejects it’s historic commitment to international
solidarity and protecting the innocent when it embraces a
growing neo-isolationism. It’s all very well to say ‘not our
fight’ in the face of ISIS terror, but the opposite on
intervention isn’t peace.   Stare at that for a moment.   The
international community didn’t intervene to stop Bashar-al Assad
dropping chemical bombs on civilians in Syria. I argued they
should.  The disastrous American led invasion of Iraq is exactly
why the West should intervene now in Syria. Those who protested
against the illegal war in Iraq should be calling on the UN and
civilized countries to take action under international law  The
Iraq invasion and subsequent fiasco is what happens when you do
nothing for too long.   If the West had intervened in 1988 when
Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Kurds at Halabja, the 1991
war and the 2003 invasion of Iraq may never have happened.   As
official records show more than one million Syrians have fled
their own country, and more th