Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Manuel

Cameron dressed as Captain Marvel should lead a band of true patriots conscripted from members of his cabinet to form an Expeditionary Force and parachute them and himself into Syria.


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Then the USA and British should bomb the hell out of Syria.

That will teach all of them a lesson!

TANKERS gone quiet now Ive proved hes getting a good deal.

oh hahaha!
i know you find it exceptionally difficult to answer the simplest of questions, let alone a sensible answer to serious one, but perhaps you'ld like to try for once

ohhhhhh you talking to Cynic?.

that was for fred

Cynic,

Inform us of deliberations base on you use of your vast intellect and knowledge what you consider would be the answer to your own question.

You appear to be longing to do so, or at least denigrate anybody who has a presents a different opinion to yourself.

No stop dribbling try to put some "thoughts" together, nurse will be around shortly to help you and Tanker.

as usual fred, you're only interested in soap-box polemic and raving and just duck from answering a straightforward question relating to a complex situation

Come on you old reactionary, stop dribbling and post you views.

We won't all laugh at the same time!

Ask nurse for help, when you need to.

in my opinion, ISIS is a very real and potent threat to stability throughout M/E, and thus to general world stability

i see no saving graces at all to this bunch of blood-seeking lunatics who have hi-jacked Islam and totally distorted the writings of the koran for their own ends
that they are clearly very well funded, almost certainly through fundamentalist elements in saudi and qatar, makes them even more scary

given ISIS's short but very violent history, i think they are far too dangerous to be left to their own devices

so in conclusion, yes i do think we should join with the amis (who seem to be trying to build an even wider coalition) in airstrikes

i shall have to reserve opinion on subsequent overt boots on the ground, but worry that i am just ducking a tough decision

I have a good idea , why don't we let them have an Islamic state if they let all those who are held by them go free. Then when all those who support them go to live there, we will have them all together in one spot, ready for us to surround them with a ground force army and bomb them, then move in for the kill

Yes ok, lets get boots on the ground.

That will sort it in no time!

Just look at the allies impressive track record in Iraq and Afghanland.

No brainer!

MaxK

Not the allies , just the American cowboys led by Bush and Donald Rumsfeld

sad that one can't get a sensible discussion here

Wasnt that bad Max it was the withdrawal policy and training that didnt appear good enough.

Never mind cynic, you will be glued to the Ryder Cup action soon. 'Cmon Europe !:-)

of course
glad i have a tele in my office :-)

GF,

Cynic means Abused Men in Scotland (AMIS).

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"this bunch of blood-seeking lunatics who have hi-jacked Islam and totally distorted the writings of the koran for their own ends"


sounds like what the Con party is doing in this country with more apposite substitution of words for Islam and koran!

yet another stupid response, but what else can one expect from that source

Hell,

I was trying to get down to your level!

I was also pointing out to you that you language referring ot ISIS as blood seeking lunatics is less than helpful and probably not true.

They could be psychopathic from you standards, but unfortunately are fighting with the weapons at their hands.

Bombing Iraq from 50,000 feet and accepting collateral damage is just as barbaric as chopping the head off your enemy.

Using Depleted Uranium - in Dirty Bombs and leaving them scattered over the soil of Iraq so that they can later be associated birth to malformations , Leukaemia and later genetic abnormalities for future generation, is not what many hope for from a civilized countries like the UK and USA.

The only thing is the media make the beheading gruesome while they skate over the true price of war.

I am not a pacifist but I don't delude myself about the consequences of winning a war.

The question you ask is complex, that is why there is so much hesitation by Obama, bombing will not solve the problem by itself and feet on the ground will be necessary and Assad and cronies need removal.

But the majority of the feet on the ground and ongoing administration in the hands of countries in the immediate area.

But before it is done the "arguments" should be placed before the United Nation and that is another reason for reviewing the UN and strengthening and disposing of the right to veto.

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Now, listen to nurse and tuck yourself up in bed again.