Interfere at your peril.

About 108 people, including 32 children, were massacred in the town of Houla in Syria a couple of days ago. A lot of people were shot at close range or had their throats slit showing that much of the killing was done at close quarters and not by tank fire. Western governments, especially the British, have instantly blamed the Syrian government for the killings but Russia has been far more balanced. It is impossible to know what is going on inside Syria. It is true that government forces are shelling civilians but that is because the rebels are using civilians as human shields to launch attacks against the military, a tactic adopted so successfully by the Hezbollah against the Israelis. The propaganda channel, BBC showed a 10 year old boy who talked about how he had witnessed men in uniform killing his mother and sisters. That is no proof as rebels can disguise themselves in army uniforms and a lot of the fighters are deserters from the army anyway. This tactic has been used very effectively by the Taliban who have killed scores of US and NATO soldiers while dressed in uniforms of Afghan police or army. Embroiled in the News International scandal, with a plummeting poll rating and blamed for the double dip recession, David Cameron wants to divert public attention away from the problems at home and prove that he is Thatcher without the handbag. He is already responsible for the deaths of 30,000 civilians in Libya and would be well advised to keep out of Syria. An expensive education at Eton and Oxford and membership of the Bullingdon club does not train you for the complexity of the middle east. Syria is divided by tribes, ethnicity and religion and enmities can often last for centuries. Already a previously unknown group, linked to the Al Qaeda, Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant have claimed responsibility for bombings which have killed scores of people. These people are quite capable of taking advantage of confusion to commit ghastly massacres for their own ends. Removing the Assad regime may precipitate a civil war which will surely draw in Lebanon and may spread to Turkey, Iraq and Israel. Meanwhile, the supreme mass murderer, Tony Blair appeared before the Leveson Enquiry yesterday. Looking fit and well and dressed in a beautiful bespoke suit he eloquently defended his proximity to Murdoch and News International. He is after all a trained lawyer. A protester managed to get into the enquiry room and accused him of mass murder but he was completely unfazed. There was no reason for him to support the illegal invasion of Iraq based on lies about WMDs other than he desperately wanted to be Bush's poodle. By conservative estimate 106,769-116,633 civilians were killed in that war and resulted in the London bus bombings on July 7, 2005. It is unconscionable that Mladic and Charles Taylor are being tried for crimes against humanity while this evil villain is enjoying life. Maybe one day both Cameron and Blair will be sitting side by side in some courtroom facing justice. We can only hope.