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    Default Re: Europe and the Rest of the World - A Military Analysis

    Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
    [British] society is composed of a people (collective) who have a cultural ambivalence to the use of military adventurism that obviously isn't considered tolerable on the continent.
    I think you have Tony Blair to thank for that. From a liberal/lefty stand point anyway, his arguments for interceding in Bosnia, then Sierra Leone are what set the scene for Afghanistan and then...Iraq. Don't you right wingers all salivate explosively when it comes to the notion of waging anyway?

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    Quote Originally Posted by alh_p View Post
    I think you have Tony Blair to thank for that. From a liberal/lefty stand point anyway, his arguments for interceding in Bosnia, then Sierra Leone are what set the scene for Afghanistan and then...Iraq.
    cart before horse, tony blair could get away with what he did BECAUSE british culture/society is as it is.

    Quote Originally Posted by alh_p View Post
    Don't you right wingers all salivate explosively when it comes to the notion of waging anyway?
    as long as Britain chooses to be a security council member it has an obligation to enforce UN resolutions as part of a wider obligation to collective security. there are even legal norms such as R2P that encourage such activity.
    Last edited by Furunculus; 01-28-2011 at 17:24.
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