This Wednesday Great Britain and Germany will participate in a ballot to decide the magnitude of the fight against ISIS, in light of France’s request to scale the military offensive against ISIS in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris last November 13th.
On one hand, the British representatives will meet for hours in the chambers to unify certain criteria about the measure to scale up the airstrikes against ISIS camps in Syria. “This is not about whether or not we want to fight terrorism. It’s about the best way to do it”, said the Prime Minister David Cameron.
It’s worth mentioning that Great Britain is already part of a coalition against the yihadist group, led by United States, that has so far limited their action to airstrikes against Irak.
After the attacks in France in which 130 people died, Cameron visited the president Francois Hollande; asserting that the United Kingdom was facing a “fundamental thread to our security” and asked: “Will we work with our allies to degrade and destroy this threat…or will we sit and wait to be attacked?”.
The expansion of the military offensive against ISIS, is aimed to keeping the largest island in the British archipelago safe, in order to face the terrorist group and contribute with the pace and stability process in Syria; as stated by the British secretary of Foreign Relations, Philip Hammond to a news chain.
The self-named Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has turned in just a few years in one of the most radical and bloodthirsty group that has existed in our time, in charge of placing surprise attacks that have taken the lives of many people. In light of this, many European countries have been forced to raising their alert and security levels.
The topic generates controversy and intense divisions; for some, attacking ISIS could mean the end of the Islamic group’s structure and chain of command; while for others, this would increase chaos in the area and the danger of onslaught on Europe.
The Labour party is strongly and evidently opposed to Cameron’s idea, as he is the conservative leader; since there are talks of the need for a plan to fight ISIS, even though many support the United Kingdom Prime Minister’s proposal.
The German legislators, will also ballot about the need to deploy several intelligence planes above ISIS; also the request to help with other countries’ anti-terrorist fronts is seemingly well supported. North of Iraq is where the German training mission will be reinforced; as the legislators’ decision will be made known this Wednesday.
ALFA