Perhaps the one way of resolving any prickly problem is to blast it into oblivion. As the UK goes into its 10 hour vote on whether or not to commit itself to airstrikes on Daesh strongholds one expects Prime Minister Cameron to get the number of votes needed to dispatch his air force into the skies and join the US, France, Russia and some Arab nations.

While the British Opposition led by the vocal labor leader Jeremy Corbyn believe that escalating the aerial bombings are not going to bring peace since it is already an act in motion Cameron calls the existence of the Daesh a risk factor. There is no doubt that post Paris the attacks have intensified and inroads have been made. But no one is really sure of how much collateral damage has been incurred or to what extent exactly have the rebel camps been hit.

While joining the coalition does up the risk factor for the UK and London, in particular, as a target for retaliation it seems the Cameron government believes its upgraded domestic surveillance will be safeguard enough and that staying on the sidelines is no longer an option.

Indeed, the flow of refugees into Europe is a matter of concern to the EU and clearly a major factor in the decision to escalate the air war.

But the 64-pound question is whether it will stop the flow of migrants running away from the killing fields or will more bombing simply end up increasing the numbers of the displaced?

When a whole nation is in peril there is no guarantee of life and combatant and civilian melt into one. As we have seen through modern history and are seeing even now the Daesh has no face and very little form. Those who survive the missiles and the attacks will simply melt into the common public and become one of them. It is exactly this inability to identify not just the Daesh high command and its soldiers that makes the fight so difficult.

Again, with more civilian casualties one creates a fertile recruiting ground for the militants who would find it easier to convert those who have lost loved ones and are left homeless in their youth.

At such times the concept of victory is eclipsed by the hope of a conciliation and a coming together to the negotiating table.

Here again the problem repeats itself. Who does one negotiate with.

For now Syria must steel itself for another onslaught as the Royal Air Force prepares to make the rubble dance.