Would you be conscripted to fight ISIS?

If the government said, "We are conscripting all able men aged 18-41" to join the army and fight ISIS in the Middle East. Would you join up?

Conscripted would imply a modicum of training and legitimacy.

Volunteering and turning up could mean any ragtag bunch of idiots with no training and no discipline.

Train in Syria. Also, it has been proven over many separate occasions that militia/Guerilla warfare is just as effective as other (legitimate) means

That's because it's asymmetric warfare. You fight guerilla against an organised military force because it's the only thing you can do. You can't stand up fight and you can't hold ground. It won't really work against a force like Daesh who aren't much more than a guerilla force themselves. They're not there to attack, they don't have real logistic chains to attack.

So what's your point? all you really did was explain mine

No I didn't. The point is that you can't really do guerilla warfare against an entity like Daesh.

Guerilla warfare is about attacking the enemy's logs. Daesh aren't a proper army, and they're getting support from the Sunni areas they're occupying - so what's the idea with fighting Daesh with guerilla war? Start killing the civilians?

I would fight independently alongside the Lions of Rojava. The government has no right to coerce people into fighting on their behalf.

Why would I give myself a death sentence?

Killing Civilians is what would happen if we sent in our forces. A few volunteers here and there would stop a mass escalation of violence. Keep the warfare as it is, keep civilians alive and contain ISIS until they surrender. That should be the plan, that is the plan and the plan is working. Why else would they team up with Boko Haram?

It's not a death sentence if you're up there in a chopper or an AC-130 dropping bombs on the ********s.

Or tell me you don't salivate at the thought of slamming hellfire missiles into their faces remotely, from a comfy seat in some RAF base in southern England? Sipping tea while helping to end pure evil.

Great until you drop bombs on some syrian village that contained 34 innocent kids. Don't say that it wont happen, because it has done previously. Civilian deaths are a given when it comes to attrition.

I echo this. If I had to fight in Syria, I'd far sooner fight for Rojava than the British Army.

Many more will be saved by the obliteration of IS than are accidentally (and of course tragically) killed in the process.

Also, the poll makes no sense, sort it out. "Would you be conscripted to fight ISIS?", the question makes no sense because you don't have a choice when it comes to conscription.

I'm pretty sure they allowed conscientious objections during WW1 (though it was heavily frowned upon - silly really, as WW1 was a terrible war on the whole; I would object to fighting in that one, unless it were against the genocidal Ottomans maybe).