But what can we do? It is hard to argue against the common feeling, which I have heard on the street, in pubs, in online comments, that this is a war in which there are no good guys, that any side we supported to try to bring it all to an end would be as bad as the others. There is the distressing view that it is a “Muslim war” or an “Arab war”, as if this psychopathy is part of an ethnic or religious mentality that we interfere with at our peril.