As usual, our politicians have made mountain out of molehill, pretending that HOC vote is people’s mandate, approval from every source, including UN. While most will agree that this is different from our involvement in Iraq and Libya most of us opposed which gave birth to ISIS and made Libya a rouge country, the opinion is equally divided about this new fiduciary conflict.
While I applaud JC giving Labour MPs free vote, I am not sure MPs voted according to their conscious, some superficially consulted their constituents by holding meetings attended by less than 100 members, giving them an excuse to justify their voting pattern, thus avoid being blamed by grass-root workers who may disagree with their viewpoint. This was the vote for self-preservation.
Although RAF with laser-guided bombs can be precise, targeting oil wells, command post, ammunition depots, even single vehicle out of a convoy of 50 with most wanted ISIS in occupancy; like Jihadi John, civilian casualties cannot be entirely avoided as experienced in Afghanistan where hospitals and marriage parties were mistakenly targeted by Americans.
This is brutal civil, guerrilla war by surrogate iconoclasts, without rules or morality where beheading of journalists, aid workers, raping, selling young girls as sex slaves is justified. No wonder most who support this war justify civilian casualty as unavoidable by-product of mindless brutality on both sides. Opinion is firmly cemented and no amount of discussion will shift it either way.
Bhupendra Gandhi
By email
