[Senator Clay Davis]

I'm inclined to let the Americans fix the mess they started with their illegal war back in 2003. Canada wasn't involved then and it was arguably the smartest foreign policy decision in the countries history. Can you imagine if even 500 Canadians died in that sham? The party that sent them to die to enrich Halliburton shareholders would be finished politically for decades, at least.

Defeating ISIS requires boots on the ground, that much seems clear. The only countries that should contribute to that are the countries that cause the mess in the first place (US and UK primarily) and the countries that ISIS could take over (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran), which of course will never happen no matter how much they claim to be against ISIS. Canada did pretty much nothing to cause this situation. Shouldn't commit troops to die to stop it.

Air strikes are fine but we all know air strikes will not be enough. Harper needs to clearly lay out no Canadian troops will be involved beyond the air, because if troops do get involved it's potential political suicide. Especially since defeating ISIS accomplishes nothing except setting the table for the next extremist group to take their place. That ideology isn't going away any time soon.