There is stupidity - and then there is downright insanity ....

Having done our best to destabilise the Middle East and bolster Islamic fundamentalism, in the region and throughout the world, by our reckless invasion of Iraq without any kind of plan for a stable successor government to Sadaam Hussein's (secular) tyranny, incredibly some commentators are arguing that the current catastrophe in Mosul is due to our failure to intervene on the side of the opposition in Syria ..... 
Words fail me.
Meanwhile, the ancient Christian communities of Iraq suffer - that is, they die -  at the hands of merciless barbarians ...
Ed West comments here, and this is an urgent plea from Canon Andrew White.

My own Member of Parliament, David T. C. Davies, is a man of integrity and an orthodox Christian (on the side of the angels in many ways) and someone who is concerned about the plight of our brothers and sisters in the faith through the world, yet the answers given to him (or rather the lack of answers), and the official sentiments expressed, in his correspondence with the British Foreign Office on the subject of the global persecution of Christians (with the possible exception of the situation in North Korea - where we have, of course,  no hope of influencing anything at all) don't exactly fill me with confidence .... or reassure about the government's concern for Christian minorities threatened by the rise of radical Islam...

The governments of the West (whatever their political complexion)  simply do not care what happens to Christians - anywhere in the world .....  at least judging by their actions and not by their words. 
As we know, words are cheap ....  and mere sentiments even cheaper ...