Dear Frank Dobson,
with the vote on military intervention in Syria approaching tomorrow I’m writing to ask you to seriously consider voting against any such action.
While the situation in the region is tragic and we should be doing our best to help the refugees of that conflict (for instance) we can’t let the understandable instinct to do something lead us to make matters worse.
It is not simply that we should be working through our partners in the united nations and continuing diplomacy with China and Russia but also that two decades of military intervention in the region has consistently made matters worse and created more and more instability with each new round of bombing.
We are not the world’s policeman, our actions are frequently seen as (frankly) imperialism by those we are professing to help and you cannot punish a dictator for bombing his people by bombing his people. The Syrian people have suffered enough and I ask you to vote against military strikes.
Yours,
Jim Jepps