Need to start educating kids about the perils of radicalism from a young age (early teens).

Or maybe just accept that some people have different views upon world events.

Which is preferable: the teenager that turns his back on his "countrymen" and chooses to fight against them or the teen that chooses to fight against his former "countryman" because he is told by his government to do so?

Perhaps we also need to start educating our leaders about the perils of imperialism and trying to get their way through force.

Who remembers French Fries being mockingly renamed "Freedom Fries"?

Still, at least we can all laugh about it now...

Ha ha. This wins the nonsense award for September.

A very stupid term, even at the time. It was hard to educated Bush and Blair, they spoke to a higher power. However I think the majority in the UK were against Iraq 2, I certainly was, but we were overruled by irrational leaders. Only Robin Cook really took a serious stand on the matter.

Belgium and Denmark have joined the coalition against ISIS in Iraq.

Denmark, Belgium Join Fight Against ISIS In Iraq

Putin got the word about 2 weeks ago ISIL was going go liberate Chechnya but so far can only imagine fighters going the other way.

That will make a world of difference then, them young jihadists will handing back there AK47's and kitchen knives and heading home to resume there shelf stacking careers in Croydon or wherever!

Even though they had retaken one neighbourhood after fierce fighting despite 4 days of air strikes against tanks and vehicles, Kurdish forces have been unable to dislodge IS from Ayn-al-Arab just over the Turkish border in Syria. Current news is showing another town where the front line is stagnant and they're yelling at each other across 80 yds of sand. Peshmerga commanders say they lack weapons required to advance. Looks to me like ISIL is winning so far, no real victories for coalition forces since the fight for Mosul Dam last month. As the men in black gain strength and numbers no-one on our side has been able to come up with an army of 300k or a half million well trained and equipped troops to stop them. Airstrikes that kill 4 or 5 enemy and cost $100,000 per body will defeat us before them. Arab coalition members concerned for their own security are hardly likely to send their own troops to Iraq and Syria and even if they could be persuaded defections would certainly be a problem.
At least the choices won't be difficult to make since negotiations with ISIL are out of the question and they aren't about to give up.

Seems the opposition parties don't want Canada to be involved from whats been on the news, but with more countries joining the fight, wouldn't it look bad on Canada's part if Canada doesn't help as well?

Technically, Canada is not/will not be doing nothing against ISIL-the parties just seem to be wanting different degrees of involvement. Trudeau wants to focus on 'training of Iraqi forces, humanitarian aid, and assistance with refugees' while Harper appears to support more direct action. He has been very vague about what those steps would consist of, however, but according to CTV news, we should hear updates about it tomorrow.

So far it really only is the Americans who have stepped up to the plate. They have made 300 air strikes vs 2 air strikes by Britain. Military targets.

Nothing personal toward Canada but a 'symbolic' offer of support would be enough.

Unless you would like to provide the boots on the ground?, that would be terrific!

We could send boots and possibly some other articles of kit, but other than our shakey old fighter-bombers and some more advisors for Iraq I doubt we'll send much (our $20 million humanitarian aid package will likely be increased). Ultrarunner's probably already there. Government scandal over soldiers with ptsd fired rather than treated means they'd be scared to commit troops because of potential embarrassment. The armed forces and the government was in denial far too long and quite a few returned soldiers commited suicide. The US could send it's soldiers back on tour after tour after tour because they take care of them (not denying it was hard though) but the Harper government doesn't have the credibility to do that.
edit: Now Turkey is in, and that will go further than anything Canada has. Look at the article on RT about Russia's 2 year old arms sales to Iraq - the $4.2 billion sale has a bit of everything but scads and scads of SAM's which ISIS would no doubt love to capture. The Turks authorised use of their property (there's a dandy airbase in southern Turkey) so all players (Australia now as well) will have somewhere to fly from.