"You are right from your side

and I am right from mine

It's one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind"

The situation is very far from a simple case of one side being good and the other bad.

For us to get involved we have to know the enemy.

Forget the he did she did debate.

Who and why nations and people are supporting this evil group has to be a factor.

Can anyone really truly want our young soldiers involved in this battle.

There are so many ethnic groups involved besides the 'Sunni and Shia factor"

Mans inhumanity to man.

Living in the area must be hell.

We are seen as the enemy and history should be testament to the West not always being innocent.

In a War situation collateral damage is acceptable.

Everyone can justify action or inaction by reference to previous conflict situations.

Tread Carefully Surely.

Maggs, I applaud your evenhandedness, an attitude that would be a great asset to any 'peacemaker'.  However, I'm not sure those 7th Century barbarians would listen to you for the following reasons:  you're a woman, an infidel, and somebody who doesn't share their ambition to create a world-wide caliphate, and more than likely they'd nab you then top you live on telly.

 

So, what's to be done?

It seems I could scare them if I became a suicide bomber.

They do not go to heaven if they are killed by a woman.

A joke surely in more ways than one.

Obviously I am no suicide bomber.

My thoughts are simple, we do not know the full story and do not really know the enemy.

The news provokes a response and then we no longer win the propogander battle.

Think 9/11 and what has happened since.