IN light of the unusual reticence of Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary- General, on the US bombing of Syria, the announcement that the Syrian government was informed beforehand and the lack of condemnation of the US action from the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, are we to infer that the US has entered into a secret agreement with Syria, with the tacit agreement of the UN Secretary-General, to permit foreign governments to wage war on ISIL within Syrian territory on condition they also bomb the prodemocracy anti-Assad forces?

I hope MPs considered this possibility before voting for British involvement in this conflict.

GEOFF NAYLOR, Colden Common.