War Envoy: Tony Blair urges Syria intervention

"There was some suggestion that both sides were using chemical weapons."
It's a lie. Lindsey German ignores the Russian arms, and suggests that any help to the rebels would be to rerun the Iraq war. She could at least be honest and say she prefers Assad to the rebels.

1956, and Hungary is shooting up the agenda. The announcement by the Eisenhower government that it will arm sections of the opposition is guaranteed to escalate the war and to create tensions with its traditional Cold War rival Russia, which remains a close ally of the Kádár government. It is the duty of socialists to oppose this, while any action by the Russians should not be our concern in the West.