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  Reality check.....
  
  G20 summit: Cameron passionate but impotent on Syria strikes
  
  PM was one of the most consistent advocates of military intervention at summit
  
  but was frustrated by Russian opposition
  
  David Cameron at the G20 summit. Photograph: Getty Images
  
  David Cameron arrived at the St Petersburg summit as the reluctant non-interventionist -
  
  paradoxically the most passionate, and the most impotent advocate for military intervention in Syria.
  
  His very impotence, imposed on him by last week's Commons vote, was a vivid reminder to the
  
  rest of the G20 of the worldwide public scepticism about military intervention in what many regard
  
  as a civil war.
  
  But if Cameron felt any embarrassment that his defeat had indirectly forced Barack Obama into
  
  an extraordinary trial of strength with his own Congress, he did not show it. Throughout, the British
  
  prime minister acted as one of the most consistent advocates of military intervention at a summit
  
  supposedly about the world economy.
  
  Cameron was determined to call others to arms, provide the evidence that Assad's regime must have
  
  used chemical weapons, and to shake the world from its complacency about the need to do more to
  
  help on the humanitarian front

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