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"en.20141022.26.3-524-000"2
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"Mr President, I very much endorse the comments of Ms Sippel and I would add that winning safety at home will be impossible unless we win the argument abroad. In our dealings with ISIS, above all else we must win the moral argument and understand that ISIS, so recently formed as an entity – such as it is – is not a thing in itself: it is a symptom of a wider problem partly brought about by our actions in the Middle East.
The roots to this go deep. Having grown up in the region myself, I am slightly familiar with it. The very existence of many of the states we are dealing with goes back to the historic actions of a number of our Member States, not least my own. Even in today’s
a foreign fighter is quoted as saying ‘ISIS is the divine vehicle that will dismantle the European borders drawn by Britain and France at the end of World War I’. This goes back a very long way, and unless we comprehend the causes, and also much else – and I disagree that a massive security infrastructure at home is the solution when the causes are deeply rooted elsewhere – that disjoint in our values, because we are not seen as being impartial, is exploited by recruiters in highlighting our selective and partial application of our own much-vaunted values in our dealings with the region.
Even now we see that, while some rightly condemn the barbarism of ISIS, we are rather quieter in condemning similar actions by a number of our allies. Even today in Syria we are seeing air strikes rightly targeting ISIS, but leaving Syrian forces free to attack the civilian population. We might win a battle but we are not winning hearts and minds, and until we do so we are not actually going to tackle the real problem."@en1
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