The maths alone should be enough to show you how untenable that stance is. A sample of 1600 people may only be 0.002 of the population, but it's 1600 times bigger than your one! Especially as your opinion is based on the fact of what you imagine most people think!
That would be the father who joined the Home Guard at 16 to fight fascism, and later in the war joined the RAF and became a pilot to fight the Nazis? Who opposed fascism the rest of his life? He would be rightly proud of his son, even though he would probably have disagreed with him on this.
I think the word you're looking for is 'prat'.
One thing we certainly do need to do, whether or not we join in with the bombing, is to forge some good working relations and agreements with the Russians.
Being pedantic, unless you've got one of those reader things that blind people use with computers, you wouldn't have heard anyone suggesting this, it is true.
On a more serious note, anyone who thinks a political solution that doesn't involve ISIS is possible is living in cloud cuckoo land...
Yes they are, you utter doughnut*. The choice is go to war or go for a political settlement. For a war to be avoided, or ended, there has to be a political settlement that involves all parties. Any agreement we make with anybody is worthless if ISIS just go on killing all those they regard as...
I'm all in favour of peace rather than war wherever possible, but with many people clamouring for a 'political settlement' on here I must ask, just what sort of 'political settlement' do they think would satisfy ISIS?
They're not like the Kurds, the Jews, the Palestinians etc., who just want a...
Fair enough - I wasn't sure what the Russians were up to exactly. I knew they were attacking some other groups as well as ISIS - if it's not the Kurds, that's good. Time the Kurds were given a home to home rule themselves in, IMHO. And Turkey (and other nations in that region who'd lose a bit of...
Very much this - the Kurds are actually fighting ISIS on the ground, and it is outrageous that the Turkish government (and the Russians, I believe) are, at best, hindering them.