British politicians are obsessed with bombing the Middle East, says Afghanistan veteran MP

‘Politicians would think twice about sending troops to war if more had experienced its consequences first hand, an MP who served in Afghanistan has said.

Clive Lewis, a recently elected Labour MP and former infantryman, criticised a Government push to bomb militant groups in Syria, arguing that a diplomatic solution would be more likely to succeed.

“I’m tired of it. As someone who, to be quite frank, has had my fill on my short tour of Afghanistan of death and mayhem, I sometimes think if we had a few more MPs in there seeing the direct consequences of their lust for war, maybe they’d think twice about it,” he told parliament’s The House magazine.’

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