Cameron: Hard military force needed to tackle Assad, Daesh

British Prime Minister David Cameron has said "hard military force" will be needed to remove President Bashar al Assad from power in Syria and to defeat Daesh, The World Bulletin reported on Wednesday.

Cameron remarks come in response to MP Harriet Harman's question about an exact figure on the number of refugees Britain was prepared to take from refugee camps in countries neighboring Syria.

"She talks about going to the causes of these crises. She is absolutely right about that. We have to be frank, particularly the eastern Mediterranean crisis is because Assad has butchered his own people and because ISIL have in their own way butchered others, and millions have fled Syria," Cameron said.

"We can do all we can as the moral humanitarian nation taking people, spending money on aid and helping in refugee camps. But we have to be part of the international alliance that says we need an approach in Syria which will mean we have a government that can look after its people. Assad has to go, ISIL has to go. Some of that will require not just spending money, not just aid, not just diplomacy but it will on occasion require hard military force," he added.

Cameron suggests that Britain will be preparing itself for military action on two fronts – expanding British involvement in airstrikes against Daesh targets in Iraq and Syria, as well as possibly taking action against Assad.

Source: MENA