Editorial: William Hague has been outflanked on Syria
- The Independent
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Britain’s inability to persuade its fellow EU countries to have weapons supplied to non-Islamist groups in the Syrian opposition was a diplomatic failure waiting to happen. The result is that Britain is left wringing its hands on the sidelines, while Russia’s efforts to guide future peace negotiations between the two sides seem increasingly assured and promising. To invert Douglas Hurd’s famous formulation, we are punching below our weight: pressing for aggressive solutions which we lack both the muscle to impose ourselves, and the powers of argument to convince our allies to support.