Enter Your Question Title Hereuk Bombing Of Syria ?

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"It is in Raqqa, Syria, that ISIL has its headquarters...
our assessment is that there are about 70,000 Syrian opposition fighters on the ground who do not belong to extremist groups." PM Cameron

cf 'weapons of mass destruction' Bush and Blair.

Campaign Against Isis: Is There Any Hope for Military Success?

http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/campaign-against-isis-is-there-any-hope-for-military-success/

[sevenOP]

"This could lead to a new government in Syria with whom we can work to defeat ISIL for good.
....and, secondly, that the Assad regime is unwilling and/or unable to take action necessary to prevent ISIL’s continuing attack on Iraq – or indeed attacks on us
.... The full answer can’t be achieved until there is a new Syrian government that represents all the Syrian people – not just Sunni, Shia and Alawite, but Christian, Druze and others.
...And it is this new government who will be the natural partners for our forces in defeating ISIL for good.
...and the donor conference I am hosting in February together with the Germany, Kuwait, Norway and the UN, I believe that will help further.

...And our work won’t be complete until we have reached our true end goal...
...which is having governments in both Iraq and Syria which can command the confidence of all their peoples...And in Syria, ultimately that means a government without Assad.
The political process in Syria will in time deliver new leadership and it is that transition we must support.
Second, does our view that Assad must go help in the fight against ISIL. Or as some claim, does this confuse the picture.- The expert advice I have could not be more clear: we will not beat ISIL if we waiver in our view that ultimately Assad must go.
...Working with a new representative government is the way to eradicate ISIL in Syria in the long-term. " from Cameron's 36 page justification report.

As you said Gromit, pellucid, IF read.

'Interdiction' of the ISIS supply lines both in and out are necessary - Jarablus to Efrin and Hatay Province generally.( Hatay territory that was historically Syrian until the end of WW 1 when Syria’s French colonial masters and handed to Turkey in an attempt to bribe the Turks to become French allies.)

It was such a crisis that we almost sent our troops in !