Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
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(6 years, 11 months ago)
Lords ChamberMy Lords, it is the turn of the Bishops’ Benches.
My Lords, would the Minister agree that there is a danger here that support for, and funding of, anti-Assad forces, however understandable that may seem from the outside, might lead to exactly the same unintended consequences that we have seen in Iraq—namely, the strengthening of anti-democratic Islamist forces who have no intention of delivering the freedoms that we assume they should?