It began with the refugee crisis. Photographs of dead children being washed ashore shook the international community’s new isolationist convictions.
But it was the jihadist attacks in Paris on Friday the 13th that united politicians from across the divide. Few now believe that what happens in Raqqa, stays in Raqqa.
Socialist French President François Hollande asked conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron to come to his aid bombing ISIS in Syria. The British prime minister supported a French-sponsored UN Security Council resolution backing such airstrikes last week. Cameron is now preparing to put the vote to the UK Parliament, probably this Wednesday. The Obama-led “hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil” foreign policy is finally unraveling.
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