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Well if you only see intervention in those countries in terms of total success or total failure, I can see how you would come to your opinion. However, in this day and age, wars are no longer fought to an easily definable victory or defeat.
Rather actions are fought to deny an enemy the opportunity to impress their brand of political or religious ideology onto a defensively weaker population or nation through indoctrination and terrorism.
When terrorists are allowed to infiltrate the national population, they will expand their activities much more effectively to further their ultimate goals. Whether that be to create a caliphate, an authoritarian or military government, or a dictatorship.
We will never countenance the UK being infiltrated to that extent, therefore, in cooperation with other countries, we will intervene at the source to prevent such an outcome.
One further comment:
Actions being fought on a small scale to deny freedom of movement to an insidious enemy have occurred throughout history from the dawn of time.
The UK will be required to continue this posture for as long as we remain a democratic nation state.
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