Why?

[poliphilo]

My mother keeps asking "Why does Cameron want to bomb Syria?"

How do you answer that?

I'm settling for, "Because there's a civil war in progress and he wants to join in."

Seriously. Two years ago he was all for bombing Assad in support of the rebels. Now he's all for bombing the rebels in support of Assad (though he'd still like to bomb Assad as well.)

No, I don't know what Cameron should do instead. But of all the options open to him bombing is the most facile and futile. We should have learned from our own experience (during the second world war and after) that nothing so strengthens a people's will and enflames their fighting spirit as being bombed.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I read an article the other day which suggested we could bring Daesh to its knees quite quickly by cutting its supply routes- which run through Turkey. The thing is Mr Erdogan quite likes Daesh because they're his enemy's enemy.

I believe you're doing more for refugees in Denmark than we are. We're not even building tent cities so far as I'm aware.