‘UK Syria involvement meant to distract public’
Britain’s involvement in the so-called US-led coalition in Syria is meant to distract the UK public opinion from outstanding domestic issues such as a burgeoning debt, says an analyst.
“The Conservative government debt from 2010 is over 500 billion pounds…they find it a good distraction to send in troops and get into bombing,” London-based writer and analyst Shahid Qureshi with the London Post told Press TV on Sunday.
The comments follow a BBC report that questions whether or not the UK involvement in Syria does make any difference in the war against militants there.
The report says it is now a month since British lawmakers voted in favor of UK military action against the ISIL in Syria.
It said on the same night that parliament gave its approval RAF Tornados launched their first airstrikes on the Omar oil fields in Syria’s east.
Newly dispatched Typhoon jets joined in the attacks two nights later, followed by a third set of strikes on the same oil fields on December 6.
The state-run broadcaster adds that hardly anything special has happened ever since.
It notes that the Prime Minister David Cameron's claim that the RAF would make a difference “there has yet to be borne out.
According to the report, given the limited number of UK airstrikes, it begs the questions: why was the government so keen to expand the air strikes to Syria, and why the agonizing over a vote that appears to have changed relatively little?\
In 2014, the United States and its allies started a bombing campaign against what they have referred to as Daesh (ISIL) positions without a UN mandate or Syria's approval. The mission has fallen severely short of dislodging the Takfiri group.
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