Hawkish:

[P]ressure from the United States played a major

role in the Government’s rush to intervene [17]

For 15 months the Americans have been bombing

these positions almost daily, yet the situation on

the ground in Syria has not changed by one inch

[31]

[W]e see that the odds look as though we will not

succeed, because everything else has gone wrong [53]

This Government is not America’s poodle [57]

[T]he drumbeat of war [62]

[D]iplomacy rather than war [74]

“Stop spending all your energies flying desperately around Europe and north Africa looking for allies in a war that nobody wants” [75]

(On Bombing Syria): That may be how it works in America, but it does not work like that here [90]

Destabilising:

The last people who should be returning to the scene

of their former crimes are Britain, France and the

United States of America [54]

I think that the idea of the west on its own―America and Britain―taking a war to the middle east is completely wrong [59]

[O]n the whole, American and western policy in the entire middle east has been a catastrophe [60]

[A]ny military attack on Syrian territory … will have disastrous consequences [78]

The United States, and by implication its allies,

ought to be very careful about claiming the moral high ground in the chemical weapons era [82]

Unilateralist:

That does not mean, however, that we should allow ourselves to go blindly … with what the

American president of the day wishes to do [18]

My biggest fear is that this is all emerging not as a

global issue, but as a purely American-led

western action [83]

[W]hy a sovereign independent state called Great

Britain should automatically fall into line in

support of military action [88]

[S]enior American political sources only last

weekend talked in terms of retribution as the

basis for taking action against Syria [89]

Isolationist/Ineffective:

He has withdrawn America from the world stage [6]

[T]he abject failure of the international community [7]

[T]aking a highly active role in addressing the Syria crisis [39]

[T]hey (The Congress members) were impacted by what we saw happen in the United Kingdom this week when the Parliament of our closest ally

failed to pass a resolution with a similar goal,

even as the Prime Minister supported taking

action [39]

[W]e certainly do appreciate the strong words that have come from senior leaders in the British

government [40]

We certainly welcome the role the United Kingdom has to play (countering the usage of chemical weapons) [40]

[T]he strong words that have come from senior

leaders in the British government about what’s

taken place in Syria [40]

Hawkish:

[T]he contributions and sacrifices of our local

partners there in the region, and of British,

American, and coalition servicemembers, we’ve

accelerated the military campaign, we have the

momentum firmly on our side [4]

The United States, France, the United Kingdom,

Australia, Sweden, Finland, and several others

have recently committed … to contribute even

more to the military campaign. [5]

[W]e need more nations contributing to the air

campaign [8]

[B]ritain has now expanded its air campaign to strike ISIL in Syria [11]

[O]ur campaign to degrade and destroy Daesh grew stronger when the United Kingdom voted to join coalition partners in striking targets in Syria [13]

[H]ave ramped up their contributions to our military campaign, which will help us accelerate our effort to destroy ISIL [13]

[T]he right for Great Britain to join us in striking

against ISIL in Syria [14]

We look forward to having British forces flying with the Coalition over Syria [15]

I welcome the vote by the United Kingdom to join Coalition partners [15]

[S]ince the beginning of the counter-ISIL campaign

the United Kingdom has been one of our most

valued partners in fighting ISIL [15]

[A]n even greater British military commitment [16]

[T]he influence and capabilities of the British

military and the British government are used

[16]