There are so many complicated situations pertaining to IS and Syria that there is really no easy answer to any of it. For me personally after Paris things changed. I am for the drone strikes. If we do nothing after what took place in Paris, we will be 'sitting ducks'. Don't get me wrong, I have many, many family members both living and deceased who are war veterans, so I do not support bombing anyone lightly.
IS are a completely different thing, they are raping, crucifying and beheading their way through the Middle East and the numbers are growing. I spoke to two Syrian refugees from Aleppo, young men who were genuinely terrified of ISIS. One chap told me " They don't care who you are, where you come from, or what religion you are , they will just kill you, they are very bad people."
ISIS also will not negotiate with anyone, there is no reasoning with them. They don't seem to want money ,aid, food or anything else. They want us all to be Muslim and to live under Sharia law. It is us and our democracy and freedom they want rid off.
The other problem is that even some Muslim groups do not get on. Shi'ites and Sunis being a case in point,then add into the mix Kurds, Yazidis(a different religion) and these are all groups that I don't really know enough to comment on, but I sense there are many group situations that we here, perhaps do not understand enough about.
I would like to point out that I have Muslim friends, and in no way are they like anything I have spoken off here, I am not anti-Muslim.
Regarding the Iraq war, I never agreed with it. Blair and Bush were wrong and I will always believe that war was illegal, the so-called WMDs were very conveniently forgotten about. We will never be told the real truth of why we were in that country and I still have no idea why we were ever in Afghanistan.
I do not expect everyone to agree with me on this forum, if you do not agree with the drone strikes, that is your right. I wish no-one any ill - will here, as I say there is no easy answers to ISIL or what is taking place in the Middle East.