altonzm:

it’s just honestly laughable to suggest that bombing an already bombed country even further is going to make it more difficult to pull off attacks in the UK or western europe, coordinated terrorist attacks don’t require the backing of a formal state infrastucture and if they did, there would be a lot fewer of them

it is just moronic and entirely playing into ISIL’s rhetoric to believe that constant escalation of ground war there is an effective response to terrorism, the only reason this has happened is because british government in general is desperate to seem relevant and desperate not to seem ineffectual, this is a bombing campaign enacted by default, I don’t really care how eloquently someone defends it tbh