What would you do with regards to ISIL/ISIS/IS...?

Napalm and carpet bombing.

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Don't forget Daisy Cutters evil bomb designed to clear helicopter landing sites in the jungle also has the added side effect of sending out a blast wave that cuts people in two :L

And Beehive Rounds, 105mm fired flat. They have can pin people to trees.

I'd deploy 10,000 British troops to western Syria to deal with Assad and Islamist rebels while in central Syria (ISIS territory) i'd probably carpet bomb them into the Stone Age. Were we not signed up to the Treaty of Paris, i'd possibly use some chemical weapons deployed by drones.

Having increased the size of the armed forces, i'd also deploy similar numbers of troops elsewhere.

It's impressive the imagination that goes into innovative ways to kill people ahh the days of sword and spears and now we have weapons capable of wiping out entire cities and countries in a single shot...

May I ask why Assad? mainly because last time we deposed a countries leader it created this mess due to the power vaccumes in Libya and Iraq.
Other than that I like!
Just imagine though getting every single bomber around from the B-52 to the Blackjack and sending them all in at once, bring back the millennium raids... it would reduce ISIL and its territory to not but a blasted heath.

Assad is a Russia friendly tyrant. And in this scenario i'd keep a province of Syria under permanent occupation while allowing the Kurds to expand into central Syria.

I fail to see the point you're making, he has been that way for decades so what? He kept the peace and indeed was allied to us in recent years and the same with Gaddafi and Sadam, removing strong leaders let these countries collapse in on themselves...
Also so what if he's friendly to Russia? Russia's the only reason the pigs in their carrier battle groups haven't rained fire from the heavens on every non military target in sight and allowed ISIL a completely free ride throughout Syria.
Its worth mentioning though any hypothetical move against Assad would cost a lot of men and machines he's well armed especially with those S-300's theres a good reason no one went near the coast or tried air strikes on him those things are good.

Simple:

No1.: Send absolutly no British troops there. This plays into the ISIS East vs West (Crusade) Christian world against Islamic world mentality.

No2: We have sold BILLIONS of pounds worth of BAE system weaponary to gulf countries such as Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE. They have more than enough capabilities to handle ISIS but they DON'T. We must use bases in those countries and coordinate air strikes on ISIS bases which we are doing, but we must RAMP it UP a notch. Apply pressure to these lazy arab states who only care about themselves and oil revenue. Saudi Arabia itself has been OBVIOUSLY funding groups like ISIS as well as other gulf countries.

No3: Who is fighting on the ground right now? KURDS AND IRANIAN BACKED SHIA MILLITIAS. What do the Kurds wants? Democratic peaceful state, which will be independent from Iraq and possibly parts of Syria. They are not the so called "moderate" Syrian rebels who will after being supplied with weapons pull of another "Libya". We must arm and train the Kurds. They are not extremists. Far from that. However, by doing this we must realise that Iraq will no longer be a unified country so we could make a deal to let the Kurds have their autonomous state within Iraq and stay a part of it.

No4: Coordinate attacks with other milliaries actively fighting ISIS. Australia and Iran have already exchanged intelligence regarding ISIS. Iran is funding Shia millitias that are the Iraqi governments only hope of not being destroyed. So try and coordinate these attacks with Iran, a country BORDERING Iraq. They have alot of experience in Iraq due to the Iran-Iraq war and have a lot to lose as it is bordering their country. Futhermore this can help improve relations between the two nations and build trust which they have already been doing in the Nuclear talks.

All of these points combined= ISIS gone. Essentially the islamic countries in the region must help fight them. Also apply pressure to Turkey to help fight ISIS. If they are so desperate to join the EU lol... Or they can help arm the Kurds, but make sure no parts of Turkey will be split into a seperatist Kurdish state.

Remember no more British troops deserve to go there and lose their lives for a war that doesn't concern them. The split second a British troop is on the ground it means the crusades have yet again commenced. The countries around ISIS have easily enough capabilities to destroy them.

further reliance on the Iranian militias will worsen the situation. There are already fears about Shia units operating in Sunni areas and the impact it may have. It will lead to further recruitment and support for ISIS given the relations between the two groups in Iraq. Iraq is a very fragmented society and that is how ISIS has managed to gain so much support.

Nothing it's none of Britains business to deal with what's going on in the Middle East. The best thing is to completely withdraw from this conflict and let them deal with it themselves.

It is certainly our business if atrocities are happening that we have the power to stop without sending ground troops in. I'm not talking about overthrowing Assad here when I talk about preventing atrocities. I'm talking about ISIS and specific incidents like Sinjar, where thousands of Yazidis escaped genocide because of US air strikes on ISIS. Or Kobane, where Kurds faced a similar attempt by ISIS to wipe them out.

We (UK and USA) kind of contributed to the ISIS problem by invading Iraq and then badly handling it afterwards (e.g. disbanding the army). For us to then sit back and do nothing and distance ourselves from any responsibility for the humanitarian catastrophe we helped create would be morally repugnant.

You do realise ISIS and others are not scared of UK, USA? They are not going to just give up because of the western powers. They don't care if they die fighting them in fact they have been saying for Americans to come and fight them. You are acting as if you know the full story when you're not even there. One thing the western media doesn't show us is that ISIS has massive support in the region. It's not just Islamic radicals that support ISIS many of them are Saddam loyalists. They see it as a resistance to their long time enemies in the region and it's all come out from events that have occurred there.


What is America going to do? You don't even know the plan. They tried to hand over Iraq to the Shia and that flopped. I think you should be honest you aint got a clue how to resolve the conflict. The best thing to do is stay out of it they never helped before and they are not going to know.