Well done to Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas for voting against air strikes in Iraq – shame she was the only one of our local MPs to do so.

The recruiting sergeants of ISIS etc will be rubbing their hands with glee as our RAF planes unleash their firepower.

They must be delighted that Western governments still fall for their ploy of committing atrocities to goad the West into military action, waiting for the inevitable casualties of innocent women and children, then enjoying a flood of jihadist recruits all around the globe.

So yet again the West, in the misguided belief that fanatic terrorism can be defeated with violence, guarantees that it flourishes for generations to come. As Ms Lucas suggested, much wiser strategies are needed.