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"Mr President, either we have a responsibility to protect, as defined in the United Nations in 2006 and subsequently, or we do not have a responsibility to protect and therefore we can allow people happily to kill one another while we watch.
For two years we have watched and there have been 2 million refugees, 6 million people displaced and 100 000 dead while we have been watching. Why did we watch? Because we knew that the Syrian opposition had al-Qa’ida embedded within it and we did not want al-Qa’ida to win. We let Arab kill Arab, moderate kill jihadi, Sunni kill Shia: it was none of our business.
But a red line was crossed with chemical weapons. We realised that the situation had gone beyond what we could control. Here I can congratulate Baroness Ashton on her very timely intervention to try to pull the rearing horses of the Apocalypse back.
However, we have to decide. Do we have a responsibility to protect, as the international community has said before, or do we not?"@en1
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