Its clear that the UK government is making diplomatic, humanitarian, as well as military actions in the area
www.gov.uk/government/news/isil-uk-government-response
Diplomacy and humanitarian efforts during wars and conflicts is something states always do. In WW2, the UK didn't just go out and shoot nazis. The UK worked with the US, USSR, French resistance, German defectors, etc etc. They dropped propaganda from the sky, organised humanitarian aid, destroyed Nazi monuments after the war, worked alongside the US in order to pump economic aid into Germany and the rest of Western Europe, etc etc.
The management of conflict in Europe did not begin and end with just killing Nazis. Clausewitz pointed out that war is not primarily about killing, but about politics.
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