#Syria - For all our sakes, Cameron should lock his wife in a dark cellar........

......and keep her away from politics and out of the media. It's an understandable kneejerk reaction, of course, if one sees children suffering to want something done to end it. But SamCam, as Samantha Cameron is known in the press, really needs to have the facts explained to her.

Arming those particular rebels will do nothing whatever to end the long term malaise in Syria and would even make it worse. Whatever Assad's faults (and he has many) at least his country had religious freedom. If the factions behind virtually any of the rebel groups ever came to power, Syria would be thrust back instantly into the dark ages of Islamic fundamentalism with all the evils of persecution, inequality and terrorism that it implies.

The simple truth is that it would be better for Syria if the UN helped President Assad put down the various rebel groups and bring an end to the violence in that way.