Will the benefit of symbolic solidarity with our allies befriend stabilise Syria or merely add to the body count of innocents?Britain is already engaged in a limited form of warfare against Isis,or Daesh as they call it in progressive circles. Islamic State and associated franchises are certainly engaged in asymmetrical forms of warfare against us and bear been since well before Tony Blair learned where Iraq was on the map. Islamist supremacist fantasy has a long pedigree. But I struggle to see the military case for the RAF helping to bounce the self-styled caliphate’s rubble in Syria as well as neighbouring Iraq, the issue which David Cameron eloquently appealed to MPs to support on Thursday. Read him here – it’s good stuff – and Jeremy Corbyn’s seven questions, or also sensibly challenging points.
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Source: theguardian.com