The same Syria that last year the Government wanted to overthrow to help the poor oppressed freedom fighters! Who overnight have become our worst enemy and darkest threat.
A simplistic comment worthy of the Guardian.
Supporting the moderate FSA in Syria as the UK, US and France were doing to different extents did not equate to helping ISIS. Perhaps there was some naivety about where the material would end up, but there was a reasonable aim of supporting and encouraging moderates in the region to beat both ISIS and Assad.
Fast forward two years (I'm being generous) and IS will have control in Afghanistan, all the Trillions of dolllars wasted and sad, sad loss of lives will have been for nothing.
Isn't it about time we left them to it?
What makes you think they'll leave 'us' to it once they're done?
Why would ISIL stop at Syria, why not Turkey and the Balkans too? Where do the resulting refugees go?
Will ISIL stop their social media campaigns encouraging disaffected Muslim's in the UK to attack us?
During the 90's, with far less money, experience and publicity, Al Qaeda attacked the World Trade Centre (1993) and US embassies in Africa (1998) while we were leaving them to it. With ISIL generally regarded as being more extreme than Al Qaeda and no friend of the West, if they are allowed to continue their campaign and consolidate power do you think they'll leave the West alone?
What's the economic impact if ISIL increase control over oil fields? Terrorist incidents in the UK increase? Refugees need to be absorbed in Europe?