Prestwich_Blue
Well-Known Member
Dan, for a supposedly intelligent lad, you can make a single-cell amoeba look like an Oxbridge graduate at times. As far as I can see, Corbyn has said he'd like a negotiated political settlement in Syria, as opposed to the Bush/Blair approach of blowing anything that moves to fuck.Corbyn isn't allowing a free vote for his MPs being the communist tyrant he is despite him constantly voting against every form Labour leader.
He also wants to make "peace with Isis". So he's pretty happy to see westerners die at the hands of ISIS.
Had we (a) not interfered in Iraq in the first place and (b) however unpalatable it may have seemed, supported Assad against the rag-bag of violent fundametalists opposing him, then most of the shit pulled by ISIS probably would never have happened.
Corbyn is absolutely right that dropping a few bombs won't solve anything long-term and that we need a more multi-faceted, broadly based, local political solution as the only way to solve this problem. History shows that military force may have a part to play but, for a lasting outcome, there always has to be a political solution.