So we’re back to bombing Iraq again, by the looks of things, for the third successive decade – this time to destroy the Islamic State, or Isis or whatever they’re called.
David Cameron, asked by an MP whether Isis was a ‘threat to the British people’, answered ‘yes’ and said: ‘This is about psychopathic terrorists who are trying to kill us. Like it or not they have already declared war on us. There isn’t a walk-on-by option.’
But has Isis declared war on us, and is it actually a threat to us, and if so why? Isis certainly poses a grave threat to its neighbours, and as with all militant Islamic groups its biggest victims are Muslims. But otherwise the group should not be a threat to Britain, a country with nuclear weapons.
Isis is a danger to Britain for one reason only, a reason that is blindingly obvious yet is never made on radio or television, or as far as I know in the comment pages of any newspaper.

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