I can't help but think - just how confusing IS our message?
We looked the other way when the Aouzou Strip resulted in relentless slaughter of innocents, we crusade around the world slamming terrorists - yet we let one go from Glasgow, we say we want to sieze his assets now.. but we allowed Yvonne Fletcher's killers to leave.
I'm not naive and I'm a real world realist, but no wonder we seem to be held in such low esteem by so many Arabs, who base their thinking on principle - not politik.