Last night two Apache Helicopters flew from one of the few remaining Royal Navy ships and attacked targets in Libya. To what purpose I ask? I still find it difficult to comprehend the reasons for being in this conflict in the first place!
Alongside our French comrades (they also sent helicopters after targets last night but our media tends to play that down) we have been bombing and strafing Libya for how long now? This was, we were told, a short intervention to support the peoples demand for a removal of Gaddafi, but he still remains and we are still unsure as to who exactly these 'people' who rebel actually are!
Where is this leading? Nobody knows. Removing Gaddafi may well be a good idea, but is that not the Libyans problem, not ours? We really want him out, and his oil under our control, yet we are caught in this stand-off about which we can do little. A short intervention we were told, costs covered by reserve cash, yet already a billion, possibly three, have been wasted on 'Dave's' adventure in 'macho' politics. Like most of 'Dave's' PR stunts this one is not working and looks like it will soon be costing us more servicemen for no good reason! Have we not wasted enough of our men in a needless intervention in Iraq 'Dave?' Another died in a failed operation in Afghanistan last night, just how many more 'Dave?' And for what?
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I'm totally and utterly against this stupid military expedition.
We were told, though only the most gullible would believe it, that the single reason for the action, was to protect the civilian population against BOTH government and rebel attacks.
We were also told that deposing gaddaffi was NOT any part of the plan. Purely and simply the protection of the civilian population from attack.
And, in the early days, we were told that the mission was simply to establish a no-fly zone. About five minutes later, we hear that they're blasting ground convoys too.
Mission creep.
secret advisors.
skulduggery.
just more of the same old shit really.
I know you especially despise our current prime minister, but I have to say, so far all this is pretty much small potatoes, compared to the things Tony Blair and Gordon Brown got us into.
How good it feels to have finally run out of money. Now YOU can be the policemen of the world. You are only after their oil. Imperialist thugs.
Soub, I disagree about Brown. If you read 'Blair Undone,' it becomes clear the whole cabinet was against the Iraq invasion, only Blair was for it.
The fault is his entirely. Bush's poodle all the way, even though he realised the US had no idea what to do once they removed Saddam!
Max, of course we are after their oil! You told us to do it!
That's it in a nutshell - or barrel. Oil. Still no sign of any intervention in Zimbawbe, Sudan etc...
Well, I am all for stronger nations, like America and Great Britain, going to the aid of those in desperate need, just as long as it is done with the purest of intentions. Quite sadly, it has proven to almost never be as such.
I agree Mike.
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