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Originally Posted by Trollheart
I'm reasonably certain there are cells in Britain just waiting for the word.
Will this not make Britain by default less safe? Are they not now, if they were not already, more open to a Paris-style attack? And what exactly is Cameron defending in Syria anyway? Is this not another Iraq, for which the Labour Govt was so castigated by the Opposition at the time, who were ... these guys
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Domestically:
No it will not make Britain more safe, in fact it could make it less safe in terms of homegrown terrorism, by engaging in airstrikes against the Sunni homeland.
It's not ISIS that the direct threat but rather its ideology of
Wahhabism, a potent religious theology that has infected the minds of young Muslim men and women throughout Europe.
It is the same strain that
Al-Qaeda practices and it has been exported en mass throughout the
Sunni Arab world by
Saudi Arabia, so if Syria and Iraq were stabilized today, the ideology would still be there, and will still be pumped in mosques & University fraternities throughout Western Europe.
It is probably the most potent political ideology out there today for Sunni Muslims, far more potent than socialism, anarchism or even multiculturalism. It truly is the Communism of the 21st century except that it
is completely intolerant in nature, and at is historically rooted on a convert or die basis.
Which is why Bashar Al Assad & the Shia Muslims in Syria are
quite literally, fighting for their lives.
Here's a good historic run down on Wahhabism & its resurrection in the Arab world.
You Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia*|*Alastair Crooke
Foreign Policy:
Taking the above into account, you could say that the airstrikes by
Hollande & Merkel are largely a smoke screen to divert attention away from the
failure of multiculturalism to assimilate citizens to European cultural values in light of criticism of their refugee policies.
Afterall, the radicals for the most part were French citizens not Syrians, as I believe was the young women who decided to blow herself up in a neighborhood in Belgium that the government minister admitted does not "have control of” when they sent in the police raids to clean things up.
Belgian Minister Says Government Lacks Control Over Neighborhood Linked to Terror Plots - The New York Times
The problem with the airstrikes is that
you will need troops on the ground to bring stability to the region and
the European Union does not have the military power to do it.
In short,
they are self reliant on the United States to solve their foreign policy problems, so unless America decides to step in, the overall impact off the airstrikes will most likely be negligible, ISIS will just get shuffled around.
In
fairness to Cameron, his hands are tied, if he wants to get concessions from Merkel & Hollande that will support his bid to keep the UK in the EU, he has to saddled up.