PUBLIC clamour for UK joining in the wholesale bombing of Syria and Iraq grows louder each day.

The case is made by UK government that this is necessary to put an end to killing and bombing from the forces of ISIS and in particular the threat to our UK civilian population.

But then this is us in the West standing deaf and blind to the no less horrifying mass casualties and deaths of civilians in the Middle East from Western bombing for the past two decades.

One hundred and twenty thousand civilian non-combatants killed in Iraq alone by Western bombing and ground forces since the Western invasion in 2003.

We can say that ISIS is a mindless thug killing machine as murderous as the worst of Fascism that swept Europe in the 1930s, leading then into the Second World War.

Or we could face up to the enormous destabilising damage and horrors brought to the populations of these countries by our wholesale bombing of their civilian towns and cities.

In the end our bombing playing its major part if not defining part in the creation of the very enemies, and bombing back on ourselves, that we condemn as terrorism.

They are terrorists, our bombing is "shock and awe".

But no less the answer to bombing Prime Minister Cameron insists is more bombing. And so we set the grand highway leading now perilously to gathering world warfare.

Or, alternatively, we want peace, then we offer peace. And that starts at negotiating tables. Not dropping more bombs.

JEFF WILLIAMS Jubilee Road, Parkstone