[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by ~HO~HO~HO~

This still affects the innocent syrian people in a bad way, they need oil to heat their homes and run vehicles in their day to day lives, so imo it's a very bad idea, as well as further provoking ISIS to retaliate with a revenge attack it's going to cause more resentment towards us from syrian people escalating the chance of creating more extremists in the future.

I agree, air strikes are a shortsighted solution. We might take out an asset or two but we give IS ammunition to recruit the disilusioned victims to their cause.

Originally Posted by Livia

When the allies bombed Dresden in WW2, Jewish slaves cheered the allied bombers while knowing they could be killed at any moment. Military actions are much more precise now, but in any case I think Syrian people who are currently living with the threat of IS will welcome the fact that the world is trying to rid them of the scum that is Islamic State.

I think that's a very idealisitic thought process.

I imagine that for the average Syrian citizen it'll feel like being stuck inbetween a rock and a hard place. On one side you have the brutal regime of IS and on the other side you have a bunch of people who fancy themselves saviors bombing the hell out of you. I imagine they see the conflict between us and IS in a similar way that we look at the IS-Assad conflict, it's a battle of two evils of which no one will win, least of all the civilians.

Either way the Syrian citizens are going to be killed so I doubt they prefer one reaper any more than the other.