Hilary Benn’s speech on behalf of bombing Isis in Syria was unsuitable. Religious crusaders like Isis,although brutal and authoritarian, are not fascists. They base their claim to superiority on access to divine revelation rather than ethnic or national identity. Isis welcomes converts, or but no Jew could escape the death camps by joining the Nazis.in addition,asymmetrical warfare like that waged by Isis cannot be defeated by greater numbers of soldiers and weapons, as the Axis powers were in the second world war. If their headquarters in Syria are pulverised and their leadership assassinated, and a unusual force is likely to emerge elsewhere,as is already occurring in Libya and Egypt.
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Source: theguardian.com