sir alan west was security advisor to the former prime minute at her brown and agrees with the decisionsh politicians to hold off on a vote on military intervention in syria. >> i think sanity has prevailed. it would have been ludicrous to march into attacks on siria before we'd seen the formal report from the u.n. teams. we ought to expose clearly the intelligence and information that clearly the americans and ourselves have which just about implicate the syrian regime and should approach the russians with that in a very public way, make them look at it with us and go through it with us, because we clearly see they will all have to say this is very sound or we don't like it and the world will see they are playing silly games. if we put that pressure on, they might agree to a u.n. security council resolution, not signing up to it, but actually abstaining, which of course rather like the libyan case would allow things to be done. i have no doubt some 36 hours ago, we were marching with the momentum to actually doing attacks, and we should not do that lightly. we have to think very carefu