Brits Are Starting To Wonder Why They Are At War Against The Islamic State?

War Against Isis: It's Started, But Do We Know What We're Doing? -- The Independent

Military experts are among the doubters

The first RAF Tornado combat jets, carrying laser-guided bombs, may have started their mission in Iraq, but military experts, politicians and Brits on the ground in Baghdad, haunted by what followed the invasion of Iraq in 2003, are struggling to convince themselves that the current strategy will produce the desired outcome – and, in some cases, what that outcome is.

Concerns over the House of Commons's overwhelming vote on Friday to join the United States in carrying out air strikes on the Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq reflect the complications of fighting an oil-rich terrorist group that operates either side of the border with Syria. The vagaries of international law and yet another war in Iraq only compound a situation that even supporters of the strikes acknowledge is both tense and fluid.

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My Comment: When you have Britain`s former top general saying that "bombing jihadis is futile" .... no one should be surprised that doubts on the strategy are going to emerge.