LETTER: Will Middle East pay price?

Like us, we thought, he must be afraid that Assad could be replaced by something even worse.

Suddenly, the dangerously unstable US President has done an about-turn, in response to “beautiful babies” being gassed, and gone on the attack against Assad.

We already knew that Assad is a monster, prepared to use chemical weapons on his own people and the latest attack is no more murderous than his earlier ones.

Trump and Theresa May turn a blind eye to the murderous campaign waged by their ally, Saudi Arabia in Yemen.

They seemed set to do the same for Assad, until Trump’s apparent Road to Damascus conversion.

We should draw little comfort from the imminent extinction of IS.