Mr. Speaker, I want to put to my hon. colleague the following quote from our former ambassador to the United Nations, Paul Heinbecker, because he is not someone who rules out that some military action might be needed, and I differ with him on that point. He said recently:
If out of fear of Islamic State and of a desire to stop them, the Coalition were to ally itself, de facto or de jure, with Bashar al-Assad for fleeting tactical advantage, it would be the ultimate betrayal of the Syrian innocents. And of our own values.
Could my hon. colleague respond to that? I think we run a serious risk, in focusing on ISIS, of actually assisting Bashar al-Assad.