So the inevitable has arrived,"Call me Dave" Cameron has declared military action against Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi.Cameron has declared the action as "necessary,legal and right."As well as Britain deciding to have a pop at Gaddafi France,Spain,Canada,the United States and Italy have also decided to back military strikes.
The coalition forces have pledged to take out air defences around Tripoli and Misrata.The British and American Navies are deploying submarines armed with Tomahawk-capped cruise missiles and thousands of Gaddafi supporters have packed into Tripoli to form a human shield against possible strikes by allied forces.So it looks like a full scale blood bath is on the way!
What is it with our western governments?Why do we have to keep continually poking our noses into foreign conflicts that do not concern us.Have these reckless politicians not learned anything from the past? When Blair was in power we sent in forces to invade Iraq because we didn't agree with Saddam Hussein's style of government and as a result that country has been left in an anarchic unstable state.Again under the pretence of finding "weapons of mass destruction" we followed America in invading Afghanistan.The politicians tell us it's to protect Britain from terrorism.Really?So some medieval goat herder in Afghanistan is really a threat to Great Britain?If they want to stop terrorism then they need to look closer to home.The jihadis are being recruited by Saudi imams in mosques in London,Birmingham,Blackburn and Luton not Afghanistan.
There is no doubt that Gaddafi is a brutal dictator but it is up to the Libyan people to fight it out between themselves.All we are doing by getting involved is poking a large hornets nest that will eventually turn round and sting the life out of us.The world is full of brutal dictators that terrorises it's own people.We should not be going round telling other people how to conduct their internal affairs.We would be wise to keep our noses out of it.The big reason western governments have backed war against Gaddafi is the same reason we went after the Iraq regime... OIL!They are so terrified of losing their lucrative oil deals that they see no other option than to take out Gaddafi and put some other despot in charge that the west can have more control over.Does anybody know the motives of the rebel fighters?The press and the politicians in Westminster seem to be swept away by hysteria.Cameron tells us we shouldn't allow a dictator to brutalise it's own people.Well what about Zimbabwe,China,North Korea,Rawanda and Sudan?It would seem if you are a regime that has oil and you don't dance to their tune expect to be invaded.If you are a regime that doesn't have oil then carry on doing what ever you like!
Are all these cuts down to our imaginations?We are in no position to act like the big empire we once where.It is not our place to police the world.The government has made massive cuts to our armed forces and it is already way over stretched.Many servicemen serving in Afghanistan have already had their redundancy notices and we can't even put jets on our aircraft carriers any more.To get involved in yet another middle eastern conflict is just utter madness.
The best most sensible option is to sit back let the Libyans battle it out between themselves and then make friends with the winning leader.The middle east will never have democracy and it is pointless trying to change them through getting involved in conflict after conflict.What I would like to see a British Prime Minster do for a change is to start looking after our own people.Cameron needs to start getting his priorities in order.He needs to stop strutting round the world stage and start putting our own house in order.
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| Cameron carries on the legacy left by Tony Blair with yet another foreign conflict! |
The coalition forces have pledged to take out air defences around Tripoli and Misrata.The British and American Navies are deploying submarines armed with Tomahawk-capped cruise missiles and thousands of Gaddafi supporters have packed into Tripoli to form a human shield against possible strikes by allied forces.So it looks like a full scale blood bath is on the way!
What is it with our western governments?Why do we have to keep continually poking our noses into foreign conflicts that do not concern us.Have these reckless politicians not learned anything from the past? When Blair was in power we sent in forces to invade Iraq because we didn't agree with Saddam Hussein's style of government and as a result that country has been left in an anarchic unstable state.Again under the pretence of finding "weapons of mass destruction" we followed America in invading Afghanistan.The politicians tell us it's to protect Britain from terrorism.Really?So some medieval goat herder in Afghanistan is really a threat to Great Britain?If they want to stop terrorism then they need to look closer to home.The jihadis are being recruited by Saudi imams in mosques in London,Birmingham,Blackburn and Luton not Afghanistan.
There is no doubt that Gaddafi is a brutal dictator but it is up to the Libyan people to fight it out between themselves.All we are doing by getting involved is poking a large hornets nest that will eventually turn round and sting the life out of us.The world is full of brutal dictators that terrorises it's own people.We should not be going round telling other people how to conduct their internal affairs.We would be wise to keep our noses out of it.The big reason western governments have backed war against Gaddafi is the same reason we went after the Iraq regime... OIL!They are so terrified of losing their lucrative oil deals that they see no other option than to take out Gaddafi and put some other despot in charge that the west can have more control over.Does anybody know the motives of the rebel fighters?The press and the politicians in Westminster seem to be swept away by hysteria.Cameron tells us we shouldn't allow a dictator to brutalise it's own people.Well what about Zimbabwe,China,North Korea,Rawanda and Sudan?It would seem if you are a regime that has oil and you don't dance to their tune expect to be invaded.If you are a regime that doesn't have oil then carry on doing what ever you like!
Are all these cuts down to our imaginations?We are in no position to act like the big empire we once where.It is not our place to police the world.The government has made massive cuts to our armed forces and it is already way over stretched.Many servicemen serving in Afghanistan have already had their redundancy notices and we can't even put jets on our aircraft carriers any more.To get involved in yet another middle eastern conflict is just utter madness.
The best most sensible option is to sit back let the Libyans battle it out between themselves and then make friends with the winning leader.The middle east will never have democracy and it is pointless trying to change them through getting involved in conflict after conflict.What I would like to see a British Prime Minster do for a change is to start looking after our own people.Cameron needs to start getting his priorities in order.He needs to stop strutting round the world stage and start putting our own house in order.
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