The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158683   Message #3756066
Posted By: Bonzo3legs
06-Dec-15 - 05:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Corbyn, Labour and ISIS
Subject: RE: BS: Corbyn, Labour and ISIS
There reaches a point where you wonder if people actually research anything before brandishing ridiculous left-wing rhetoric or whether it just comes from an ideological standpoint based on nothing.

The amount of posts I read fear-mongering about all the dead civilians the bombing will cause is astounding given it is simply untrue. For a start, we aren't at war with Syria (if you can define Assad's regime as Syria), we are at war with Daesh, as we have been for over a year when we started bombing them in Iraq. Wednesday's vote changed very little. The bombs are aimed at hitting Daesh's supply lines and aren't just targeting random civilians. The last time I checked there aren't thousands of women and children chilling around in Daesh territory waiting to get bombed by the Western powers - and do you know why that is? Because most of them are fleeing Daesh's oppressive regime! No civilians are reported to have been killed in a year's worth of bombing of Daesh in Iraq. So please tell me where all these supposed bodies are coming from that are meant to be on Mr Cameron's conscience?

This vote won't magically cause Daesh to increase all their operations against the UK, the threat level has been, and remains at 'Severe' - i.e. an attack is highly likely. The concept that we ought to be looking at 'other strategies' is also naive, suggesting we aren't already doing so. I find it ironic that Joe Public think they know more than the UK Military Intelligence Divisions. The Prime Minister makes decisions based on intelligence given to him from the highest level, not because he wakes up in the morning thinking "hey let's go bomb Daesh in Syria today!"