Cameron must work with Assad to defeat ISIS – British general

‘Prime Minister David Cameron must accept that in order to defeat Islamic State, Syrian President Bashar Assad must remain in power, a former chief of defense staff has said, calling the PM’s plans for Syria “contradictory.”

Cameron is currently preparing to hold a vote on extending airstrikes against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) from Iraq into Syria once he is guaranteed enough support from MPs.

But General Sir David Richards told the BBC Cameron needs to examine a deal with Russia which would allow Assad to control his troops at the forefront of the battle against the extremist group.

“At the moment we’ve got contradictory war aims. We want to deal with ISIS, but we also want to get rid of Assad at the same time. I personally don’t think that’s plausible. Any general will tell you need to have unity of purpose and clear aims in a war. That muddies those aims,” he told Radio 4’s Today program.’

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