[Jamie89]

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.

Originally Posted by Dezzy

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.

But this sounds to me like your saying that we shouldn't go ahead with the bombings because Syrian civilians might, at some point join ISIS as a result. But whilst it may be true that some extremists do come out of situations like this, I think on the whole, they're normal people like us at the end of the day who want an end to the regime. And I don't see what the alternative is. A lot of the 'against' arguments seem to be based on what may happen in the future as a result of our involvement but doing nothing at all and leaving ISIS to run as they currently are will leave ordinary Syrian people without a future imo - and at the very least, will prolong their current suffering