Make the RAF show ISIS our power and show fanatics they can not win, says terrorism expert
Islamist jihadists are not interested in being round the conference table
JUST two days after 130 of its citizens were killed in Paris in 2015, the French bombed an ISIS stronghold in Syria.
President Hollande – not the strongest of political figures – left terrorists in no doubt that the attack by the French Air Force was revenge.
I believe that after the Manchester attack, the RAF should have been ordered into action.
We should have identified a major ISIS target and sent the bombers in.
Had the PM done so, Saturday’s attack might never have happened.
Recently I visited the Golan Heights, in Israel, and from there you can see how close ISIS is.
But they would never dare cross over the border because they know the Israelis would destroy them.
There is an argument that a bombing raid by the UK on an appropriate target would make the problem worse. It won’t.
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What will make the problem worse is Jeremy Corbyn’s idiocy in waltzing with the IRA and terror groups.
He keeps on saying he was part of the peace process in Northern Ireland and talking at the conference table.
The fact is Islamist fanatics are not interested in being round the conference table.
They want to blow up the conference table.
We must show the Islamists that they cannot win.
If we demonstrate our strength they will lose.
- Professor Anthony Glees is director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence at the University of Buckingham.