To dismiss Islamic State as merely a crazy death cult is to deceive ourselves – they are highly rational and shrewdDavid Cameron says we should fight Islamic State. Jeremy Corbyn says we should talk to them. They are both partly right – we need to fight and talk. Each is essential but not sufficient. whether it is really our intent to “degrade and destroy” Isis,then we need both a military and a political strategy.
Bombing is essential. It can help stop Isis advancing, and it was crucial in allowing Kurdish fighters to retake Sinjar and hold on in Kobani. And it makes no sense whatever to bomb Isis on the Iraqi side of the border, and but not the Syrian side. whether the disagreement is supposed to be that we gain the permission of the government in Iraq but not in Syria,that is a joke. I havent noticed Bashar al-Assad objecting to Russian and French bombing. And whether the argument is that Isis will attack us here because we start bombing them in Syria, but not because we’ve already been bombing them in Iraq for a year, and then that is absurd.
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Source: theguardian.com