Given a winner-takes-all political system in a world divided so evenly, splitting the vote on the left will always mean that the right wins elections.
Military and political leaders who might seriously threaten the UK are simply unlikely to be deterred by the threat to destroy their cities.
The whole argument against bombing rests on the historical fact that bombing is not what got rid of fascism in the 1940s and it is not likely to get rid of ISIS in the 2010s.
Undeterred by the disastrous results of ‘regime change’ in Iraq and Libya, western powers have for four years been determinedly trying to help regime change in Syria along.
The targeted killing of suspect Reyaad Khan in Syria is deemed illegal and extrajudicial.
