A STATE of chaos is always accompanied by unforeseen problems, and decisions made during such chaos rarely result in anything but failure, which feeds the chaos further.

Such a situation exists with migrants wanting to avoid regulated movement of people and there is no planned or coordinated international approach. This is also detrimental to genuine asylum seekers.

When a society breaks down because its members are not capable of behaving, or are even unwilling, to behave according to reasonable standards, the answer cannot be to export such chaos to other societies, no matter what armchair philosophers may tell us. We need to consider the cause. Syria, Libya and Iraq have or have had some unpleasant dictators but their people are very different in their approach to life from the people of Western Europe. We had to create what we have now through blood, sweat and tears and it is still not perfect. We cannot simply offer a policy of open doors to all human failures in the world without realising that it may affect what we hold dear.

The fact is that some societies cannot function at all without a dictator and the best we can achieve is to make those dictators accountable so that they observe basic human rights, never mind democracy as per Westminster.

So let’s be cautious in interfering in foreign countries as such interference has so far only helped anarchistic revolutionary extremists who denied basic human rights to the majority of the population.

Why not seek a common approach to Syria with Russia, and then endeavour to constrain President Assad by undertaking negotiations concerning his abuse.

The EU foreign policy towards Russia, with its embargo, is nonsense. It has soured international cooperation, harmed British farmers with the trade embargo, and encouraged extreme Ukrainians. The fact is that Russia’s demands on Crimea are reasonable, and so is the need for special arrangements for the Russian population in east Ukraine.

Those Russian affairs are none of our business but Libya, being close to Europe, is a direct threat to us all.

Why not help to create a Libyan military government, on an aircraft carrier off the Libyan coast for security, enforcing a decree that anyone who carries a weapon will be shot on sight.

It is likely that we would soon find a reduction in the human tragedy with a different approach to our foreign policy.

The Ukip argument of Nigel Farage is an unhelpful intervention and will not produce anything. The sad fact is that the more Germany is willing to take these migrants, the more it will encourage people to seek to arrive in the European Utopia.

Bernard Borman, Leyburn