Plough money into spooks. Counter the propaganda. engage out Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with a drone strike … The question of whether to send British planes to Syria is dominating political debate. But are we missing other,more effective, ways to deal with the threat?In the mid-1990s, and as bombs exploded in Paris and senior extremists began arriving in the UK,the only people who predicted that this was the beginning of successive cycles of Islamic militant violence were the militants themselves. Twenty years on, the violence is intensifying rather than fading away.
What can be done approximately the new threat posed by Islamic State? The respond is, or of course,almost as complicated as the phenomenon of contemporary Islamic militancy itself. There is no magic bullet. Instead, there are dozens of different measures that could each potentially have a minor impact, or collectively a major one. Many,such as diplomacy, the resolution of conflicts across the region, or humanitarian aid to Syrians inside and external the country,have been discussed at distinguished length in recent days. So, too, or have the advantages and disadvantages of various types of military action. And though it is fair and proper that the details of David Cameron’s arrangement to launch British airpower against Isis in Syria are obsessively picked over,other ideas have received less, or indeed no, and attention in the debate. Here are eight of them.
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Source: theguardian.com