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As I write, the forces of the modern world are busily engaged in its defence. In the skies over Mesopotamia, F-22 Raptors – those beautiful, sleek monsters of war – are releasing smart bombs destined for the hide-outs of civilian-killers and child rapists.
I’m pleased and slightly surprised to see this. Obama and Cameron have had to make a tortuous about turn to arrive at the current (correct) poise. It wasn’t so long ago that these men were advocating the arming of Jihadist groups in the same region. Now they are pledging to roll such forces back into the middle ages where they belong. Hooray for common sense (at last).
The babyish pacifists are already whingeing of course. Some are warning of ‘mission creep’ and eventual ‘boots on the ground’. But why would anyone object to that? Of course I’d much rather that we could defeat ISIS entirely from the air, but it’s far from certain that we can. We must prepare for whatever this war may ask of us.
As acts of violence go, this is as close to moral violence as can be imagined. The democratic forces of the West are mowing down the ambitions of an anti-democratic evil. The edges we enjoy in technology are finally being made to count. The modern world is showing its worth and I for one am loving every minute of it.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
It’s going to be a long war. Like a retired Australian Lt. General Peter Leahy said: It could go on for a century.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/well-fight-radical-islam-for-100-years-says-exarmy-head-peter-leahy/story-e6frg8yo-1227018630297
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ISIS can be defeated quite quickly. Radical Islam is another matter.
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It’s not ‘Radical’ Islam.. It’s Orthodox Islam.
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Indeed.
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And in a war,,, we must first know our enemy? and then understand him.
Then to know what we are fighting for? UK ? freedom? family? philosophy? culture?
So we can figure if it is worth the cost, casualties and time.
Thank you for your part in figuring it out and putting things together.. so we can understand, maybe not everything, but to gain an innate instinct of what we are about.
Simpleton
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We must fight ISIS for the sake of civilisation. They represent a far bigger menace than al-Qaeda in my view.
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