Glad to see the "nothing" claim is out the window.
I agree with military force by NATO when a country's sovereign territory has been invaded by another country as was the case in WW2 and with Kuwait. The campaigns in Kuwait, WW2 and Bosnia and Afghanistan as the Yanks were going after Bin Laden and Al Qaeda for causing 9/11 were 100% justified in my opinion. When Kuwait was liberated, the allies should have finished the job and punished Saddam for his actions by continuing the assault all the way to Baghdad. The allies decided to do it a few years later based on lies that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Yes, he killed many of his own people (thousands in fact) but at least he had control of Iraq and the numbers who have lost their lives since make the numbers he killed look tiny by comparison. Similar could be said of Libya. Today, after the invasion Iraq is simply a mess and Isil have spread the war into Syria. This whole episode was caused by the invasion and when people in Britain complain about the millions of refugees from Syria and Iraq flooding into Europe and using that as part of their justification for leaving the EU, I would say, well, your own country played a major role in creating this crisis in the first place, not the EU.
It is my opinion that the international community should not get involved in civil wars. I am delighted to see the British and Americans keeping well away from Syria. Shame Putin decided to get involved. I also think that NATO should have got involved in Ukraine. Although that was technically a civil war, the rebels were obviously been backed by the Russians and Ukraine's sovereign territory was breached by Russia to move military equipment to the rebels. Where were NATO then? Why didn't they stand up to the bullies then?
I admire the policeman role Britain plays Goldie when countries are invaded but I disagree with them getting involved in civil wars and regime change. If they do get involved, they have to accept full responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
Finally, I would just say, despite our declared neutrality during WW2, don't forget that Thousands of Irishmen volunteered to fight in the British, Australian, New Zealand and American Armies. Many Thousands of them lost their lives.
sunning themselves around Europe. Also don't like some blokes in Europe who I have no affiliation with making up the rules, I would prefer some blokes in London who I have no affiliation with do that instead!
