We've covered this topic for quite a while now, so I agree probably best to wrap up, when there's such more pressing global news, but just a few final points - -AFAIK, Western support and a… (View Post)

But it wasn't a question of who killed more people, but who was more of a threat not only the entire region, but to us in Europe. Isis in 2013 could have rampaged across the entire middle east, … (View Post)

As I said, part of the justification for war in the run-up to Iraq wasn't just the false claims of WMD, but the very accurate charges of gassing his own people at Halabja, which were widely publ… (View Post)

The mass bombing of Syria government positions when Isis were in the ascendant would have been an absolute catastrophe. Isis may have overrun the entire region, attacked Israel and Lebanon too, and i… (View Post)

This was exactly the reasoning the led up to the invasion of Iraq, but now chaos had already been inflicted by the prior failed intervention, and Isis were gobbling up territory throughout the region… (View Post)