Victory and peace abroad cannot be won by trying to bomb your enemies into submission.
How else can the systematic rape and murder of Christians possibly be described?
“It’s time for a few home truths.”
Plus: Cameron blew it. So did Hammond. And: My friendship with Tony Benn.
Wednesday’s events in the Commons have laid to rest the ghost of the Iraq War.
We must not send the message that if you kill 240,000 in Syria, you get away with it, but if you kill 140 in France then you’re in trouble.
“In the period in which the campaign has been operating, recruitment to Daesh has doubled.”
The Labour former minister argues in favour of extending air strikes to Syria.
Hansard’s account of the opening of today’s debate on extending military action against ISIS.
The Prime Minister makes his case in the House of Commons.
We will not be “bombing Syria”, but attacking carefully identified terrorist targets in the worst example of an “ungoverned space” that the modern world has seen.
Which represents no change in their view since the summer. But support for bombing among our readers as a whole is much lower.
Commerce and realpolitik will always have their place in British foreign policy, but we should never be an uncritical friend to regimes like Saudi Arabia or Kazakhstan.
We need to find advocates whose authority and Islamic orthodoxy the extremists respect. Such people exist, but they are not liberal Imams or nominally Christian politicians.
The country’s brief period of Muslim Brotherhood rule was a disaster – for its economy, its security and its society.