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Originally Posted by Kizzy
I am, I don't think this drive to get over there is anything to do with ISIS and is a dupe for us to get over there and defend Turkey.
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I certainly don't believe these further air strikes are about ISIS. Yes, they do want to remove ISIS but they know its almost impossible.
I grabbed this off 'stopwar.org'
We support the Iraqi government in the fight against ISIS.
We don't like ISIS, but ISIS has been supported by Saudi Arabia, whom we do like, and Saudi Arabia is now supporting us in bombing ISIS.
We don't like President Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but not ISIS, which is also fighting against him.
We don't like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government against ISIS.
So some of our friends support our enemies and some of our enemies are our friends, and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies whom we want to lose, but we don't want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win.
http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news...iraq-and-syria
If there is an underlying rationale for the latest drive for war, it is the desire of the British government and military to be seen as a major power player in the region.