Raf Jets Could Be Bombing Jihadis By The Weekend.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2767277/RAF-jets-bombing-jihadis-weekend-Cameron-signs-military-action-against-ISIS-militants.html

Can anyone tell me how bombing Islamic State fanatics in northern Iraq will make Britain safer from attacks?

To me this will only inflame the issue.

/// The Defence Secretary Mr Fallon told the Spectator magazine: 'We've had attacks on the streets of London, on our transport system, at Glasgow Airport, the murder of Lee Rigby – how much more evidence do you need that this is a very clear and dangerous threat to our way of life and to all the democracies of the West.

'This is a new Battle of Britain. ///

Doesn't he realise that we fought the Battle of Britain over the sky's of Southern England, not over some distant land?

[Jomlett]

Parliament to be recalled on Friday to discuss possible action against Isis.

[Jomlett]

BBC News - Parliament recalled over air strikes on Islamic State in Iraq http://bbc.in/1tYqyBe

[jno]

glad to hear it, but parliamentarians of all parties are routinely eager to grab the flag and follow their leaders to war. Metaphorically, of course; actual fighting and dying will be done by others.

[mikey4444]

Its time to stop pussyfooting around. I was listening to a lady being interviewed this morning on the BBC. She had watched her family being raped, tortured and killed by these uncivilised monsters. Lets get stuck and do something, rather than stand by and wring our hands in horror.

[jno]

Lets get stuck and do something

"Let's do something and get stuck" is more like what's happened in our wars against Muslim states so far.

[ChillDoubt]

So Khandro, let me get this straight.
As you've said many of the IS terrorists are British, yet you want Britain to stand idly by and do nothing whilst this terror group preaches death and destruction of the West whilst beheading Westerners?

Forgive my brevity, but I have to ask:

Are you real?

[mikey4444]

I retract nothing from my earlier comments jno. These monsters are running amok and have murdered 1000's of innocent people. They need to be stopped, as they are not capable of listening to reason. And if that means boots of the ground, the so be it. All free nations should be doing their fair share...even the former cheese-eating surrender monkeys are taken some action !

[TTG]

Tighten border security before starting a war against religious fanatics. Although the terms 'stable door' and 'horse bolted' spring to mind.

[mushroom25]

dealing with the ISIL fighters may well require boots on the ground, but I cannot fathom how this can work. ISIL fighters are not like any conventional opponent, they don't wear uniforms and aren't billeted in military establishments - they're just more men with beards wearing the shalwar kameez, totally indistinguishable from the regular population and who melt away as soon as our "boots" come calling.

[mikey4444]

No one said it was going to be easy mush, but something has to be done, before these savages murder anymore people. 60,000 refugees crossed over the Border into Turkey last weekend, in just 36 hours. We should have taken action earlier.

[sevenOP]

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[jourdain2]

I've already made my position clear, but I add the old quote 'For Evil to triumph it is only necessary that good people do nothing.' We have no choice. I'm not a strategist, military person or anything like that (I'm all for sweet reason and have lived and worked like that all my life) so I don't know how to go about it, but they will come for us eventually if we do nothing. I can see how the issue could become inflamed, but even Al Quaeda repudiates ISIL, which is surely a positive. Please read the poem 'First they came for the Jews'. We could end up fighting a massively engorged, alien enemy power over the skies of Southern England. At least we are being invited to help by other Islamic states. Bad news about the French hostage.

[ichkeria]

I think that the idea is to take them on and defeat them, not merely to irritate them by lobbing a few bombs at them.
It'll certainly make things dodgy for a while, but I guess this is the price we pay for not taking action earlier to help the Syrian opposition.
I don't understand the bit about the Battle of Britain. We also fought WWII in lots of far fling places all over the world, which I guess is why it was called World War II, of which the Battle of Britain was but one - albeit it vital - part.

[mrsmaveric]

if you think things are bad now wait until ground troops are sent in,no war has ever been won by airstrikes alone...boots on the ground is a foregone conclusion...

[ichkeria]

If you think things are bad now wait and see what happens if nothing is done ...

[Jomlett]

UN adopts resolution to crack down on foreign fighters

The US ambassador to the UN says the “opening business” included passage of a resolution setting new global rules to crack down on the flow of foreign fighters to conflict zones.

[sevenOP]

"It'll certainly make things dodgy for a while, but I guess this is the price we pay for not taking action earlier to help the Syrian opposition."

ISIS are part of the 'Syrian opposition'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-rebel_conflict_during_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Attempted_mediation

It will make things dodgy for a while till we get ahead.

socialists then trade unionists then the Jews, jourdain {;o0]

[Jomlett]

“Reuters: PENTAGON CONFIRMS STRIKES UNDERWAY, SAYS WILL PROVIDE DETAILS AS “OPERATIONALLY APPROPRIATE”