Whose fault is it? [hmm]

Now another family of 12 including baby and grandparents both said to be in poor health have gone to Syria. I think there is something very strange going on. They were of Bangladeshi origin and went there first. If you simply don't like life in this country and you have family etc elsewhere, surely your first choice is to go 'home', not into a war zone?

What strange thing do you think is going on Lilygran? It's a worry isn't it, so difficult for most of us to understand why anyone would take sick, elderly parents and young children into a war zone. Add the fact that the family appear to have gone in order to join a group who carry out the most barbaric, brutal and oppressive regime and I just feel slightly sick.

I suppose the truth will come out in time why this group of twelve, old people, a baby etc left for Syria.My guess is that they have a few young men in the family who are already out there fighting with ISIS and they have gone to join them.

I suspect we'll never know somehow. Sigh.

Mysterious. Mitigating circumstances notwithstanding I'm a great believer in people taking responsibility for their own actions.

Or being held responsible...

I was listening to the numbers of people who are estimated to have left to fight in Syria (around 2,000) and was completely astounded. Then I remembered that at the beginning of the conflict it was spoken of as a rebellion for freedom and we were proposing to bomb Assad and support the 'freedom fighters'. Now we are discussing bombing the rebels. I can see that some young people might have left to fight for freedom at the start. I find the policy changes confusing, how much more difficult it must be if you are being fed anti-British propaganda.

There are rebels and rebels! now in Syria, the original rebels to Assad's regime are fighting each other and also fighting ISIS.