Sir Ivor Roberts writes on Western Military Intervention in Syria

Sir Ivor Roberts has written a feature article in The Tablet (25 February 2012) on international military intervention on what is increasingly looking like a civil war in Syria.

In it he writes that "the US and the UK have been willing to interpret creatively vague, outdated or ambiguous [UN] resolutions and to morph them into a right to intervene usually defined as 'humanitarian intervention' when the real aim is often regime change".

He adds that “however much some might wish it otherwise, the international community does not have the right to intervene in the affairs of states for the purpose of pursuing regime change.”

The full article can be read here.