Mitt Romney and the Republican establishment are trying to connive Conservatives to support a Syrian war to install a Muslim Brotherhood regime in that nation. They harp about the alleged massacres, committed by Assad, while not discussing the ethnic cleaning of Christians by the Syrian rebels and their bombings against Government targets. A journalist describes a rebel attempt to have them set up to eb kileld by Assad’s forces.

Set up to be shot?

Suddenly four men in a black car beckon us to follow. We move out behind.

We are led another route. Led in fact, straight into a free-fire zone. Told by the Free Syrian Army to follow a road that was blocked off in the middle of no-man’s-land.

At that point there was the crack of a bullet and one of the slower three-point turns I’ve experienced. We screamed off into the nearest side-street for cover.

Another dead-end.

There was no option but to drive back out onto the sniping ground and floor it back to the road we’d been led in on.

Predictably the black car was there which had led us to the trap. They roared off as soon as we re-appeared.

I’m quite clear the rebels deliberately set us up to be shot by the Syrian Army. Dead journos are bad for Damascus.

That conviction only strengthened half an hour later when our four friends in the same beaten-up black car suddenly pulled out of a side-street, blocking us from the UN vehicles ahead.

The UN duly drove back past us, witnessed us surrounded by shouting militia, and left town.

Eventually we got out too and on the right route, back to Damascus.

In a war where they slit the throats of toddlers back to the spine, what’s the big deal in sending a van full of journalists into the killing zone?

This is who The Republican Establishment wants America to go to war for. Let me be clear, I hate both sides in the conflict and love the fact they are killing each other. I don’twe ant any American involvement in Syria. I will continue to speak out on this, even if it puts me at odds with other Conservatives.