Discuss - Defence ISIS - Increase RAF air strikes against ISIS

Are you in favour of increasing UN-sanctioned air strikes by the RAF against ISIS?

Conservative Party leader David Cameron stated that Britain should respond to the Iraqi government's request for help, adding that we "should not turn away from what needs to be done". Source: BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29339787

Green Party The Green Party has always been clear in saying that the long term answer to this horrendous ongoing genocide lies not with Western military intervention on the ground but in the wider International community assisting the states and peoples of the region to defend themselves and bring relief to the ever growing number of refugees displaced by the fighting. ‘The West bears much responsibility for promoting this tragic state of affairs; bombing ISIS, which will see innocent civilians killed and land ruined further, which will only make their attackers yet more emboldened — this cannot be the answer. Source: Green Party website http://greenparty.org.uk/news/green-party-calls-on-international-community-to-protect-human-rights-in-the-middle-east.html

Labour Responding to questions about the threat of ISIS in Iraq, Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said "he was open to the possibility of supporting air strikes against ISIS in Iraq." Source: http://rt.com/uk/190208-parliament-recalled-isis-action/

Liberal Democrat Commenting about ISIS, Nick Clegg said, "The Liberal Democrats will support the air strikes in Iraq for the following reasons. First, because it's legal, it's been requested by the Iraqi government, to help them rid themselves of the threat of ISIS, secondly because it's part of a much bigger coalition of countries crucially including a number of Arab countries which deprives Isil of the ability to somehow portray it as a West vs West Crusade". Source: BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29339787

Respect Party During a House of Commons debate on Iraq, party leader George Galloway told MPs, "Isil [Isis] itself is an imaginary army. A former defence secretary said we must bomb their bases. They don’t have any bases. The territory they control is the size of Britain and yet there are only between 10,000 and 20,000 of them. Do the maths." Source: The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/26/george-galloway-angers-mps-isis-iraq-debate

UKIP "The Government’s position in merely attacking a cross border force on one side of the border is laughable. ISIS is not merely a terrorist organisation, and no amount of wishing that will make any difference. It is an embedded society. To defeat it will take far more than airstrikes. If we are to combat ISIS it will take a hard fought ground war. To rely on airpower alone risks making a bad situation far worse. Year on year this, and previous governments, have denuded our military capacity, leaving our forces a shadow of their previous existence. To change matters will take years, but we must start now, or we will have to accept that real threats to our safety and civilisation will go undefended." - Party Leader Nigel Farage. http://www.ukip.org/britain_s_leading_military_strategist_takes_the_ukip_position_on_isis

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