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Jewish News: To defeat ISIS we need to commit, but also be aware of bigger threats, by James Sorene
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The RAF is about to bomb ISIS. What is this going to achieve? When Parliament voted against bombing Assad I was working in Government.
A week before I was in Afghanistan. Flying over Helmand in a Chinook, an RAF gunner leaning out the open rear door pointing a machine gun at the terrain below provided a moment of clarity about military intervention. To win you need 100% commitment.
Syria is fiendishly complex. Until now the UK couldn’t decide who was on our side and what side we were on. The brutality of ISIS and terror attacks in Europe provided clarity. This week BICOM’s research fellow Michael Herzog published an important paper on Syria. He believes that to beat ISIS the West must destroy it, not degrade it. We need to offer the Kurds and the Sunnis autonomy in Syria and we need NATO boots on the ground. Without that, we won’t win.
Israel isn’t in this fight but cares deeply about the outcome.
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