[JoshBB]

Originally Posted by Dollface

Understanding them and basically saying that they have a reason for their actions is (imo) making excuses for them.. There's no "reason" for killing innocent people that have nothing to do with what's going on in the middle east.

To solve a conflict, the most important thing is to try and understand what their reasoning is so that you can combat that and hopefully resolve the issue. For ISIS, they have a very extreme ideology that everyone must bide by their salafi jihadist religion without any compromise.. and so there isn't really much to negotiate.. it's clear the most important thing we must do is prevent radicalisation and stop people turning to ISIS.

Many people who have joined recently quote that they believe 'the west' is bombing their homes and hospitals. ISIS has taken the mistakes of our governments and made out that they were made in malicious intent, and so if we were to drop more bombs indiscriminately in the region I really don't believe it would help to prevent people turning there.

Also what doesn't help is the anti-immigrant sentiment in our country right now. People in dangerous syrian war-zones have ultimately three options: they can join isis, attempt to cross the water into europe, or they can be killed. And I don't think anyone wants the third option, so what we really need to do is be taking more refugees to prevent ISIS getting hold of more fighters and supporters.

This might be poorly written but I hope the point gets across nonetheless. We need to deradicalise, and even better prevent it happening in the first place. The answer is not to drop more bombs, and definitely not to just ignore the syrian civilians.