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POLITICS MATTERS

POLITICSMATTERS To Bomb or not to Bomb, that is the Question? Mike FREER MP for Finchley & Golders Green Post Charlie Hebdo and Paris, how do we combat extremism?

This week the Prime Minister is expected to present his strategy for combatting Islamic State, or Daesh. Then next week we are expecting the PM to seek parliamentary approval for Britain to join the 60 strong international coalition involved in bombing IS targets in Syria. At present we have the situation where RAF Jets can only operate against IS in Iraq, despite the headquarters of IS being in Syria.

SO here’s the conundrum, do we take the gloves off (well partly off as we aren’t contemplating boots on the ground) and seek to destroy the military capacity of IS or do we carry on outsourcing our security to the USA, France, UAE, Jordan etc. When we hear people say “it’s not our war” or Paris is Frances’ problem do we meekly agree or wonder well what if it had been London that had been attacked. Would we hope and pray that our friends and allies came to our aid or would we quietly accept the USA or France saying ‘meh’ it’s not our war, let the Brits deal with it?

I get emails saying previous incursions into Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya haven’t been a roaring success and may well have contributed to the radicalization of Muslim youth. Possibly. I do expect the lessons of previous conflicts to be learnt. I expect

the PM’s strategy to outline that there is a plan for the ‘peace’ after Dash is routed. We can’t destroy the enemy and walk away, we have to be there for the medium term to help build stable, functioning states.

The lack of previous success, my emailers argue, mean that this time we should do nothing. In my view that would be folly.

Daesh isn’t simply seeking to establish an Islamic State in neatly defined borders somewhere in the Middle East; that once they’d created the new country they’d live happily ever after and leave the rest of the world alone. Daesh are seeking to establish a worldwide caliphate. They are not seeking peaceful co-existence, they want to destroy every semblance of our pluralistic, democratic, tolerant, multi-faith societies.

Remember Daesh didn’t take control of the territory in Iraq and Syria and leave the Christians, the Yazidi’s alone.

Non-believers had to convert to their brand of Islam or be put to death. Archaeological sites of

past civilizations with icons of other faiths or lifestyles have been systematically destroyed.

There can be no peaceful coexistence. The worldwide domination objective of Daesh means that there can be no peace talks – as some emailers naively suggest. Indeed I think the Green Party suggested it.

Negotiation suggests common ground. There is no common ground!

So when Mr Corbyn and his fellow travelers suggest our Police shouldn’t shoot a Kalashnikov wielding terrorist.

Or suggest Jihadi John the executioner, gleefully beheading people, should be brought to justice (as if the police can simply wander down into Raqqah and arrest him!!!) they are either naïve or willfully surrendering the security of our country.

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