enismirdal wibbled a bit about Syria and invited sensible comments, I had too much to say so this became a post. Due to the nature of it as a reply this may make more sense if you read what she said first.( Read more... )
This is interesting. I still feel equally conflicted, but it pretty much highlights several points I already suspected to be the case. I guess you're right that from a terrorism-reduction strategy, bombing the bajeesus out of Daesh in Raqqa would probably be fairly effective. (That said, reducing the speed limit on every UK road by 5mph would, presumably, save about 10 times as many lives over the next 10 years because we are all still way more likely to die in a road accident than from a suicide bomber.)
I hadn't even applied my brain to the diplomatic NATO-like situation but that is indeed very argh.
I suppose Cameron should also be asking, then, how many of the MPs approve of other countries' airstrikes on Syria?
Is it fairly well-accepted that Daesh are being pushed back by different groups on various fronts now? I am not a military strategist so to be honest hadn't really been keeping track of which bits had been won/lost recently, and the BBC maps are such an unholy mess of colours that I just think, "Argh."
I hadn't even applied my brain to the diplomatic NATO-like situation but that is indeed very argh.
I suppose Cameron should also be asking, then, how many of the MPs approve of other countries' airstrikes on Syria?
Is it fairly well-accepted that Daesh are being pushed back by different groups on various fronts now? I am not a military strategist so to be honest hadn't really been keeping track of which bits had been won/lost recently, and the BBC maps are such an unholy mess of colours that I just think, "Argh."
Thank you for this. It was interesting.
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