Should we bomb De-ash/ISIS in Syria?

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We do not hear much of Syria these days.
A hospital bombed in Aleppo. Doctors killed.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/10/uk-drone-strikes-murder-charges-clarify-legal-basis-targeted-kill-policy-isis

I don't think this was expected.

www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/12/red-cross-convoy-denied-entery-to-syrian-city-of-darayya

The war in Syria is still happening. People are starving.

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It worked. People pressure and signing petitions allowed food drops to Syrian towns.

Just received an email from the syria campaign.
It seems to have been forgotten about now, but there were 43 attacks on hospitals in July.

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A petition to ask the US to get the Russians and Syrian government to stop bombing hospitals and civilians.

Khaled, the man who rescued this baby, was killed yesterday.

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Three other white helmets were injured.
It's time to get western governments to stop the Syrian regime from bombing its own citizens.
The regime has caused over 97% of casualties in Syria.
ISIS has caused 1%.

So sad.

watched babies and children trying to survive the gas - it was horrendous.

It is all so heart breaking.
I also feel sorry for the mislead girls who went to Syria and the one who died in a bombing. How dreadful to smuggle themselves off on a perceived adventure, only to find themselves in a living hell. To be stuck, knowing they were so misguided and tricked must have been awful. 15/ 16is so young.

Just read that the White Helmets have been nominated for the Nobel Peace prize.
If anyone deserves it, it's the White Helmets.

www.whitehelmets.org/

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Russia did this, not ISIS. Russia in cahoots with Assad.

I really am sitting on the fence at the moment with this. On Today this morning, the suggestion was that Russia is totally pulling the shots. One of the reasons given was Obamas hands off stance since he took office. But I also supported the no bombing campaign, but now I'm wondering whether and if we could have ended the conflict quicker. Actually probably not, but it seems wrong not to try to stop it and Russia is clearly not going to take any notice from its position of strength

www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2014/09/26/comment-beware-our-allies-against-isis
To confuse you a bit more.

www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news-comment/2116-the-futility-of-air-strikes-in-the-war-on-terror

And even worse.

We've been doing that for years. In my previous existence I was keenly aware of that fact. Arms export that is.

Do you think that Bush/Blair shock and awe helped?
That seems to me what you are advocating in your previous post about sitting on the fence.
I think it caused the rise of ISIS.

Do you think that bombing Syria has helped?
The weapons ISIS has are those left behind in Iraq by the US/UK allies.

The Chilcot enquiry seems to have disappeared from the news very quickly.

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thexrayfactor.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/the-iraq-war-was-simply-business-as-usual/

A view of the aftermath of the Iraq war and the Chilcot enquiry.

dj that was quite a leap you made about my sittin g on the fence and advocating the shock and awe of Bush!!
The view from my fence is of tiny bodies and crying children. I just feel that Our current strategy isn't helping a single child, that in fact their killing and maiming has become a weapon of war. I'm not advocating more bombing, but neither do I think the choice we made of relative non interference was the right one. I want to see more activity by the UN - but I think that our strategy has allowed Russia to stregthen its position, and as a result little can now be done.

Sorry, whitewave, but you seemed to imply that bombing might have ended the conflict quicker. I was just pointing out that it didn't. It escalated it.

www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news-comment/2125-countless-children-are-victims-of-war

An article by Harry Leslie Smith trying to reconcile that photo.

'All the deaths I have seen either close at hand, or in the media over my long life sadly tells me that the boy in Aleppo won't be the watershed to end this war in Syria. The watershed will be when we the people ask why should arms merchants profit so that our children may be butchered in wars that benefit no one but the elites.'

From his article.

When Corbyn is PM next year we will have world peace

I do hope so, Annie.
As Harry Leslie Smith says, the one thing we have never tried is not selling arms to the middle east.

www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news-comment/2129-it-s-time-to-end-the-u-s-saudi-arabia-special-relationship