There is good reason to believe that Isis will gain statehood

There was a telling Tory-on-Tory spat over Syria this weekend. First David Cameron appeared on American television to promise more British support in the fight against Isis. He would, he told NBC viewers, “bring Parliament with him” to help destroy the caliphate in “both countries”. So far, Britain’s military intervention has been limited to Iraq, barring a few Tommy pilots riding along in Yankee airplanes – without parliamentary approval – over Syria. Plainly, the Prime Minister hopes to soon see the RAF flying in the open above Raqqa, the jihadists’ de facto capital in Syria, too.