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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTony Blair: 'Ground troops are necessary to fight Islamic State - diplomacy will not defeat them'
It's a long article and one where sentences become paragraphs. But, he makes it clear that we should all be utterly terrified of the newest, hairiest, scariest, bogeyman since Godzilla.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/tony-blair-ground-troops-are-necessary-to-fight-islamic-state--diplomacy-will-not-defeat-them-9747714.html
We have to fight groups like Isis, he wrote. There can be an abundance of diplomacy, all necessary relief of humanitarian suffering, every conceivable statement of condemnation which we can muster, but unless they're accompanied by physical combat, we will mitigate the problem but not overcome it
You cannot uproot this extremism unless you go to where it originates and fight it.
Without a comprehensive strategy, we will face a future marked by conflict and instability across swathes of the world and major acts of terrorism in our own lands, he wrote.
Action against ISIS alone will not suffice. We need to recognise the global nature of the problem, the scale of it.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)dhol82
(9,351 posts)Somebody get a uniform on him and give him a rifle.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)still_one
(91,937 posts)malaise
(267,797 posts)WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)and who wants his crappy advice now?