To expect anything but moral cowardice from our leadership is to be a little over hopeful. Bombs are cheap. Troops on the ground are expensive. Patrolling the Mediterranian, getting the right to deport refugees out of the European Human Rights Commission — that is politically expensive, and the latter is the only expense the elite care about.

This is the beginning. It is not the end of the beginning, let alone the beginning of the end. What will happen next is the politicians who preached appeasement will lose power, outside the church and within it.

That would be a defense. That would be justice.

Instead the ‘military’ acts to increase its power and that of the state leaders. Not acceptable.