No to symbolic and good conscience strikes. Yes to useful strikes in Syria

 'If the West had earlier decided to send a strong warning to President Bashar Al Assad and his entourage - "Your silence is killing us" slogan on Friday 29 July 2011 - and had not lent a deaf ear to the cries for help that had launched their revolutionary in vain for months successively claiming "international protection" (Friday, September 9, 2011), the "no-fly" (28 October 2011), "an area protected "(Friday, December 2, 2011) and" support for the Free "Syrian Army (13 January 2012), we would not be here today . The plan might have looked for another solution to the escalating crisis and the jihadists have not made their appearance, with the initial support of the Mukhabarat Syria to become a convenient scarecrow and a useful excuse for inaction by Western democracies." '