Russia America France and a few other have already been dropping bombs on Syria for a while now.
How much actual difference will it make now that us Brits have got involved ?
Strategically in Syria – non we’re joining in after all the low hanging fruit has been picked. Politically perhaps we’re trying to not be embarrassed by not doing what our neighbours are doing. Practically perhaps we’ve got bombs that are near their Use-by date
The difference it makes to life here is pretty much zero – are we defending ourself against anything by dropping these bombs? We would never know, we’ll never know if the next thing that would happened was because we did join the bombing campaign or because we didn’t.
The difference it makes to politicians is whether you can say the next thing that happens is because of what we didn’t do, or in spite of what we did do. Doing something, rather than doing nothing is an easier position for a politician to defend.