If one is targeting Fragrant Gentleladies from York...........one needs only one Drone
Good news if this 'jihadi john' monster has been blown to smithereens but unfortunately it is only one termite in a very large and odiferous dung heap; and for every termite squashed in a foreign heap one might expect it will encourage ten newborn British termites to crawl overland to bolster that repellant pile o'shite...yay or nay?
That's been the pattern, and you'd have to be stupid (or George Bush) not to be factoring it into your planning. Having said that, there simply isn't any room for accommodation with ISIL, which is what sets them apart. It's why I've been keen to find arab/ muslim proxys to fight ISIL, as this drastically reduces the scope for the multipler effect to kick in. Sadly its quite difficult to achieve this when the west then pursue a policy of destroying those people on the ground who are best equipped to fulfil the role. It's bone headed strategy
For all intents and purposes ISIL have declared war, which means the scope for peace and negotation that you might see in other theatres simply doesn't exist.
The bottom line here is that Emwazi might be symbolic, but strategically he's not of any great significance. He's not even bomb maker. To listen to Cameron this lunchtime though you'd think he's taken out some major ISIL commander, "a strike right at the heart of ISIL" - c'mon!
The infinitely more significant events this week would be the recapturing of the highway and supply route into Aleppo, relieving the ISIL siege of the airbase near Aleppo, and the bombing of the Shia district of Beirut yetsterday. I note incidentally that the French are increasing the number of sorties they're flying this week too as the UK continues to lose ground in the diplomatic manouevring
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