tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post2423164293116608655..comments2023-08-29T09:01:57.436+01:00Comments on Musings of a Durotrigan: Only Mad Dog Gaddafi and Cameron go out in the Libyan SunDurotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-29636987689270419412011-03-18T21:33:19.636+00:002011-03-18T21:33:19.636+00:00Quite right LP. The idea that we should have any g...Quite right LP. The idea that we should have any grand foreign policy role now strikes me as anachronistic. I thought that this lesson was supposed to have been learned following the Suez Crisis, but perhaps those in power, not having been born at that time, have forgotten this particular lesson of history? We are a middling power of middling means which can gain nothing through militaristic Durotriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-15974484552738966142011-03-18T20:06:15.356+00:002011-03-18T20:06:15.356+00:00We are not the world's policeman.
Does China g...We are not the world's policeman.<br />Does China get bothered about matters in the Middle East? No.<br />And neither should we.<br />They need oil just as we do but after all this has settled down they will get it and we wont.<br /><br />LankypatriotAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-20344986242272042142011-03-18T07:14:16.032+00:002011-03-18T07:14:16.032+00:00Yes, the example of Iraqi and Kurdish refugees, as...Yes, the example of Iraqi and Kurdish refugees, as well as Kosovan Albanians, is instructive. Quite why they remain makes no logical sense. A combination of immigrant advocacy groups and anti-national 'human rights' legislation has prevented their repatriation.<br /><br />Presumably, just as the aforementioned economic migrants (classed as refugees) were settled in a number of our towns Durotriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-38697047675295931132011-03-18T00:32:49.477+00:002011-03-18T00:32:49.477+00:00'The West' is probably after the oil by es...'The West' is probably after the oil by establishing control over the region, and going about some liberal 'humanitarian' posturing into the bargain. It always puzzled me that Iranian and Kurdish refugees were allowed to come here even though the US/UK invasion was over in a few days and the source of the purported justification for asylum ( Saddam Hussein) had been deposed. Yet, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com