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"Mr President, I long for the moral certainty that some of the other speakers have just expressed. I wish I could, as for example Mr Murphy did, dismiss everyone who disagrees as a warmonger. I think the issue is finely balanced and I think people on both sides of it have decent motives. It is not enough to say that those who favour intervention are demented neo-cons. They are, by and large, sincere men and women who often know the area well and are concerned with a catastrophe which is almost beyond our capacity to measure.
There have been 1.8 million refugees in a quarter of the time that the Iraq war has displaced 2.2 million. There have been 100 000 UN-registered deaths. Our minds are not designed to contemplate suffering on that scale, but no-one has yet persuaded me that it falls to the Western world to intervene. If, as Barack Obama said the other day, 98% of the world’s governments reject poison gas, then why should it fall exclusively to the United States and a handful of allies to enforce that prohibition? There are other countries in the region for whom this is a more immediate problem. Let them take the lead."@en1
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