Isis will eventually disintegrate on its own. Trying to crush it will win it support and require a land army on the scale assembled to liberate Kuwait in 1991. Cameron has specifically said he would not join such an army, though such pledges against mission creep are worthless. For the moment, there is no such ground force to make bombing strategically effective. All we are offered is a sickening bombing party, a gesture, a show of machismo, a gift to the arms salesman, a hot flush from a military briefing.
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